Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-28

hard down OH the marble iUor as they
arise to 60. they must feel like chiding
the boldnezs that allows twelve years
Of age to ask seventy five years of age
such puzzlers
Out OF this building we follow him
into the Quarantania the mountain Of
temptation. It's side to this day black
with robbers dens Look Up the
side OF this mountain come all the
forces OF perdition TO effect our Chief
tains capture. But although weak
enpd by forty days and forty nights oi
abstinence. he hurls all Pandemoniun
down the nOckS suggestive OF how b.
can hurl into helplessness all our temp
tationS
And now we climb right after him up
the tough sides OF the Mount of Be
attitudes. and on the highest pulpit OF
rocks the Valley of Hatin before him
the Lake Of Galilee to the right of him
the Mediterranean sea to the left OF
him. and he breaches a sermon that yet
will transform the world with its ap
piled sentiment. Now we follow ON
Chieftain on Lake Galilee We must
keep to the beach. for our feet are not
slIod with the supernatural. and we re-
member what poor work Peter made
OF il when he tried to walk the water
Christ our leader is on the top of the
tossing waves. and il is about half past
three in the morning, and it is the darkest
time Just before daybreak But by the
flashes OF lightning we see him putting
his feet on the crest of the wave step
ping from crest to crest, walking the
white surf solid as though II were
frozen snow The sailors think ghost
is striding the tempest, but he cheer>
them into placidity. showing himself to
be great Christ for sailors And he
walks the Atlantic and Pacific and
Mediterranean and Adriatic now, and
If exhausted and affrighted voyagers
will listen for his voice at half-past three
o'clock in the morning on any sea, in
deed at any hour, they will hear his
voice of compassion and encourage
ment.
We continue to follow our Chieftain.
and here is a blind man by the wayside
II is not from cataract OF the eye or
from ophthaluiia, the eye extinguishei
of the east. but he was born blind. "Be
opened" he cries. and first there is IA
smarting of the eyelids, and then a twi
light, aud then a midnoon, and then n
shout. II seel seel" Tell il 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 Liver our
Chieftain cries, and they live Tell ii
through all the bereft households; tell
1t among the graves
And here around aim gather the dead,
and the dumb, and the sick, and at his
word they turn on their couches and
blush from awful pallor OF helpless III
ness to rubieund health. and the swoll
EN- foot Of the dropsical sufferer be
comes ileet rs roe on the mountains
The music Of the grove and household
wakeus the deaf ear, and lunatic and
maniac return into bright Intelligence
and the lepers breath becomes as
sweet as the breath Of a child. and the
flesh as roseate Tell It To all the sick,
through all the homes, through all the
hospitals Tell II at twelve o'clock at
night tell IL at two o'clock in the
morning; tell it at half-past three, and
in the last watch of the night, that
Jesus walks the tempest
THE KISS or BETRAYAL.
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-tive cents, he orders Peter
To catch fish that has in its mouth a
Roman state, which Is bright coin
land you know that tish naturally bite
at anything bright, but it was mira,
Gle that Peter should have caught 1t at
the tirst haul.
Now we follow our Chieftain until
for the paltry sum OF fifteen dollars
Judas sells him to his pursuers Tell
il TO all the betrayed II for ten thou
sand dollars. or for five hundred dol
lars. or for one hundred dollars your
interests were sold out consider for
how much cheaper sum the Lord of
earth and heaven was surrendered to
humiliation and death But here, while
following him ON a spring night be
tween eleven and twelve o'clock, we
see the dash of torches and lanterns
and we hear the cry OF a mob Of nihil-
lists They are breaking in on the
quietuds of Gethsemane with clubs
like mob with sticks chasing a mad
dog.
IL isa herd Of Jerusalem roughs"
led on by Judas TO arrest Christ and
punish him foI being the loyeliest and
best being that ever lived But rioters
are liable to assail the wrong man
How were they 10 be snre which one
was JesusI II will kiss him" says
Judas ''and by that signal you will
know on whom 10 lay your hands Of
arrest SO the kiss which throughout
the human race and for all time God
Intended as the most sacred demon
stFaiion Of affection, for Paul writes 70
the Romans and the Corinthians and
slle ThessalOnians concerning the holy
kisS and Peter celebrates the Kiss Of
charity. and with that conjunction Of
lips lAban met Jacob. and Joseph
met hls brethren. and Aaron
met Moses and Sglnosl met
saul and Jonathan met David, And