Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-28

Him putting His feet on the crest of
the wave, stepping from crest to crest,
walking the white surf, solid as though
IL were frozen snow! The sailors think
ghost is stridIng the tempest, but de
cheers them into plscidtty, showing
Himself TO be q great Christ for sailors.
And He walks the Atlantic and Pacific
and Mediterranean and Adristic now,
and IL exhausted and affrighted Yoy-
ayers will listen for His voice at half
past three 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,
SRd here Is a blind man by the wayside.
1t is not from cataract of the eye or
from ophthalmla, the eye-extinguisher
OF the East; but he was born blind.
''Be opened" he cries, and first there Is
a smarting OF the eye-lids, and then
twilight, and then mld-nOOn, and then
a shout. 81 seel 1 see!' Tell it TO all
the blind, and they at least, can appre-
ciate il. And here is the widows dead
son, and here is the expired damsel, and
there is Lazarus! "Livew our Chief
tain 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 couches,
and blush from awful pallOr helpless
illness to rubicGnd health, and the
swollen foot Of the dropsiea sufferer be-
comes fleet as a roe on the mountains.
- nd
wakens the deaf ear, and lunatlc
and maniac return into bright
intelligence, and the leper's
breath becomes as sweet as the breath
of child, and the flesh as roseate.
Tell il 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 hai-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 pro-
lection, insists that he pay tax and too
poor TO pay the requisite two dollars
and seventy-fve cents, he orders Peter
to catch fish that has in its mouth
Roman slater, which is bright ccin
land you know that fish naturally bite
al anything bright, butitwas miracle
that Peter should have caught ii at the
first haul.
QNow we follow our Chieftalu until for
the paltry sum of fifteen dollars, Judas
sells him 10 his pursuerS. Tell it to all
the betrayed! IL for ten thousand dol
l.. g.. 4 4 10
hundred dollars your interests were sold
out, consider for how much cheaper a
SUN the Lord Of earth and heaven was
surrendered TO humiliation and death.
But here while following him on
spring night between eleven and twelve
o'clock, we see the flash of torches and
lanterns and we hear the cry of mob
OF NihilistS. They are breaking in on
the quietude OF Gethsemane with clubs
like a mob with sticks chasing mad
dog. II Is a herd of Jerusalem "roughs"
led by Judas to arrest Christ and pun
ish 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? Il will kiss him." said Judas,
''and Oy that signal you will know on
whom to lay your hands or arrest" So
the kiss which throughout the human
race and for all time God intended
as the most sacred demonstration OF az
lection, for Paul writes to the Romans
and the Corinthians and the TheSsalO-
mans concerning the holy kiss" and
Peter celebrates the kiss of charity, and
Il h.N - I hat OF
Jacob, and Joseph met his brethren, and
Aaron met Moses and Samuel met Saul
and Jonathan met David and Orpah
parted from Naomi and Paul separated
from his friends at EpheSus and the
father in the parable greeted the re-
turning prodigal, and when the millen-
mum shall come we are told righteous
ness 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"-thaJ most sacred demonstration
of reunion and affection was desecrated
as the filthy lips Of Judas touched the
pure cheek OF Christ, and the horrid
smack OF that kiss has its echo in the
treachery and debaSement and hypoc-
riSy Of ali ages.
As in December, 1889, 1 walked on
the way from Bethany, and at the foot
OF Mount Ollvet, half mile from the
wall of Jerusalem, through the Garden
OF Gethsemane, and under the eight
venerable olive trees now standing,
their genealogical ancestors having been
witnesses Of the occurrences spoken Of, !
the scene of horror and of crime came
back to me, until I shuddered with the
historical "Reminiscences.
In further following our great Chief
tain's march through the centuries, l
find myself in a crowd in front of He
rods palace in Jerusalem, and on
movable platform placed upon tassel-
sted pavement, Pontius PLATE sits. And
as once 4 year a condemned criminal is
pardoned, Plate lets the people choose
whether it shall be an assassin or our
Chleftain, and they all cry out for the
liberation Of the assassin, thus declar-
ing they prefer a murderer to the saliva
tion OF the world. PLATE took basin
OF water in front of these people and
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