Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-08

be u great Christ for sailors And he
walks the Atlantic and Pacific and Medi-
terranean and Adriatic now, and if eX-
hausted aud allrighted VOyagers will
listen for his voice at half past three
o'clock in the morning on any sea, indeed
at any hour, they will hear his voice of
COMPASSION and encouragement.
We continue to follow our Chieftain,
and here is a blind man by the waysido.
| 1t is not from cataract of the eye or from
ophthalmia the eye eXtingufsher Of the
East but he was born blind. "Be
opened" he cries, and first there is a
smarting of the eyclidS and then twi-
! light, and then a midnOon, and then
shout 81 see. I see." Tell it to all
the blind, and they at least can appre
ciate it. And here is the widows dead
| son, and here is the expired damsel, and
here is lazarus! "Live." our Chieftain
| cries, and they live. Tell it through all
the bereft households; 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 touches and
blush from awful pallor of helpless i'll
ness to rubicund health, and the swollen
foot of the dropsical sufferer becomes
fleet as a roe on the mountains. The
music Of the grove and household
| wakens the deaf ear, and lunatic and
maniac return into bright intelligence,
and the eper's breath becomes as sweet
as the breath Of child, and the flesh as
rOseate. Tell it to all the sick, through
all the homes, through all the hospitals
Tell it at twelve o'clock at night; tell it
at two o'clock in the morning; tell it at
haIf-past three, and in the last watch of
the night, that Jesus walks the tempest.
Still we follow our Chieftain until the
government that gave Him no prOtec-
ton insists that He pay tax, and, too
poor to raise the requisite two dollars
and seventy-five cents, He orders Peter
to catch fish that has in its mouth a
Roman state, which is bright coin (and
you know that fish naturally bite at
anything bright, but it was q miracle
that Peter should have caught it at the
first haul
Now we follow our Chicftain untii
for the pa try sum of fifteen dollars,
Judas sells Him to His pursuerS. Tell
it to all the betrayed! If for ten thou
sand dollars, or for five hundred dollars,
or for one hundred dollars your inter
estS were sold out, consider for how
much cheaper a sum the Lord of earth
and heaven was surrendered to humi)ia
ton and death. But here, while fol-
| lowing him on q spring night between
/ II and II o'clock, we see the flash of
| torches and lanterns, and we hear the
cry of mob of nihlists. They are
| breaking in on the quietude of Goth
semane with clubs like a mob with
sticks chasing mad dog,
| It is a herd of Jerusalem "rOughs"
led on by Judas to arrest Christ and
punish Him for being the loveiest 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? 81 will kiss him." says Judas,
"and by that signal you will know on
whom to lay your hands of arrest" SO
the kiss which throughout the human
race aud for all time God intended as
the most sacred demonstration Of affcc
ton, for Paul writes to the Romans and
the Corinthians and thu Thessalonians
concerning tho "holy kiss, !" and Peter
celebrates the kiss of charity, and with
| that conjunction of lips Laban met
Jacob, and Joseph met his brethren,
and AaG0n met Moses, and Samuel met
! Saul, and Jonathan met David, and
| Orpah departed from Naomi, and Paul
separated from mis- friends at Ephesus,
and the father in the parable greeted
the returning prodigal, and when the
millennium shall come we are told
Righteousness and peace will kiss each
! other, and all the world is invited to
| greet Christ as inspiration cries out,
kiss the Son lest he be angry and We
| perish from the way"-that most sacred
| demonstration of reunion and affection
was deSe2rated as tho filthy lips of
Judas touched the pure check of Christ,
and the horrid smack of that kiss has it's
| in OBJ nhoS prt
| and hypocrisy of all ages.
AS, in December, 1889, / walked on
the way from Bethany, and at the foot
of Mount Olivet. half mile from the
wall of Jerusalem, through the Garden
| of GethSemane, and undCr the eight
| venerable olive trees now standing, their
| pOmOlOgical ancestors having been wit
| ncSSeS of the occurrences spoken of. the
| scene of horror and Of crime came back
to me until | Shuddered with the histor-
| zeal "reminiscences.
In fur her following our great Chief
tains march through the centuries, |
| find myself in a crowd in front Of RerOd'
palace in Jerusalem, and on ID movable
! platform placed upon teSSelated pave
ment PontiuS Eilate sits. And as once
a year condemned criminal is par
! doncd, Plate let's the people choose
| WEeGncf III Sndll DC an dSSdSSln bI our
| Chieftain, and they ali cry out for the
| liberation Of the assassin, thus declar-
ing they prefer a murderer to the saliva
| ton of the world. PLATE took basin
| of water in front of these people and
| tried to wash Off the blood of this muir
! der from his hands, but he could not.
| They are still lifted, and | sec them
| looming up through all the ages, eight
| fingers and two thumbs, standing out
red with the carnage.
! Still following our Chieftain, | ascend
the hill which Gen, Gordon. the great
! English explorer and arbiter, first made
Il clay model of. 1t is hard climbing for
| our Chieftain, for he has not only two
| heavy timbers to carry on his back, the
| upright and horizontal pieces of the
| cross, but he is suffering from eXhaus-
! ton caused by lack of food, mountain
! chills, desert heats, whippings with
! elmwOOd rods, and wears of maltreat-