The Princeton union., 1891-10-08
ghost IS striding the tempest, but

ghost Is striding the tempest, but
CHEERS THEM INTO PIAclDITY,
showing himself to be great Christ
for sailors.
we continue to follow our Chieftain,
and here is a blind man by the way
side. It is not from cataract Of the
eye or from ophthalmia, the eye ex-
tlngulsher OF the East; but no was
born blind. "Be openedr' he cries,
ana iirst there was d smartlng of the
eye-lids, and then a twilight, and then
mld-noon, and then shout. 'I
see: | see!" Tell it to all the blind,
ana they at least, can appreciate it.
AND here is the widows dead son, and
here is the expired damsel; and there
is Lazarus! ''Live!" our Chieftain
CRIES, and they live. Tell it through
al the bereft thouseholds; tell it among
the graves. And here around him
gather the deaf and the dumb and the
sick, and at his word they turn on
their couches, and blush from awful
pallor OF helpless illness to rubicund
health, and the swollen foot OF the
dropslcal sufferer becomes fleet as a
roe on the mountains. The music of
the grove and household wakens the
deaf ear, and lunatic and maniac re-
turn into bright intelligence, and the
lepers breath becomes as ssweet as the
breath of a child, and the flesh as
roseate. Tell it to all the sick,
through all the hospitals.
Still we follow our Chieftain until the
government that gave him no protec-
tlon insists that he pay tax and too
poor to raise the requisite $2.75, he
orders Peter to catch a fish that has
IN his mouth Roman slater, which is
bright coin (and you know that fish
naturally bite at anything bright),
but 1T was miracle that Peter should
have caught it at the first haul.
Now we follow our Chieftian until
for the paltry sum OF SIS, Judas sells
him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the
betrayed! II for $4,000, or for $500,
or for $1OO your interests were sold
out, consider for how much cheaper a
sum the Lord OF earth and heaven
was surrendered to humiliation and
death. But here while following him
on a spring night between IL and 12
o'clock, we see the fash Of torches and
lanterns and we hear
THE CRY OF A MOB =
OF Nihilists. They are breaking in on
the quietude of Gethsemane with clubs
like mob with sticks chasing mad
dog. 1t is herd of Jerusalem
"roughs' led on by Judas to arrest
Christ and punish him for being the
loveliest and best being that ever
lived. But rioters are liable to assail
the wrong man. How were they to
be sure which one was Jesus? 'I
will kiss him. says Judas, "and
by that signal you will know
on whom to lay your hands of
arrest" So the kiss which through
out the human race and for all time
God intended as the most sacred de-
monstration OF affection, was desc
Grated as the filthy lips of Judas
touched the pure cheek OF Christ, and
the horrid smack of that kiss has it's
echo in the treachery and debasement
and hypocrisy of all ages. ... .s..s =. .
In further following our great Chief
tain's march through the centuries, I
find myself in a crowd in front of
Herod's palace in Jerusalem, and on
aAmovable platform placed upon
tasselated pavement, Pontius PLATE
sits. And as once year condemn
ed criminal is pardoned, PLATE let's
the people choose whether it shall be
an assassin or our Chieftain, and they
all cry out for the liberation of the
assassin, thus declaring they prefer a
murderer to the salvation of the
world. PLATE took a basin of water in
front of these people and tried to wash
off the blood of this murder from his
hands, but he could not. They are
still lifted and I see them looming up
through all the ages, eight fingers and
two thumbs standing out red with the
carnage. ..'--
Still following our Chieftain; I as
cend the hill which Gen. Gordon, the
great English explorer and arbiter first
made clay model of. It is hard
climbing for our Chieftain, for he has
not only two heavy timbers to carry
on his back, the upright and horizon
tai pieces of the cross, but he is suffer-
ing from exhaustion caused by lack of
food, mountain chills, desert heats,
whipping with elm-wood rods, and
years Of maltreatment."
The sun dropped over it's face a veil
OF cloud. 1t withdrew. 1t hid itself.
1t said to the midnight, 81 resign to
thee this spectacle upon which l have
no strength to gaze; thou art blind.
Oh, Midnight! and for that reason I
commit to thee this tragedy!' Then
the nighthawk and the bat flew by,
and the jackal howled in the ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they
carry his limp and lacerated form
amid the flowers and trees OF gar
den, the gladioluses, the oleanders,
the lilies, the geraniums, the mand-
ralxes, down five or six steps to an
isle OF granite where he sleeps: But
only little while he sleeps there, for
there is an earthquake in all that re-
gion, leaving the rocks to this day in
their aslant and ruptured state de-
clarative of the fact that something
extraordinary there happened. And
we seq orr Chiaft ain arouse from his