The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-02

/ 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
/ palIor of helpless illness to rubicund
/ health, and the swollen foot OF the
dropsical sufferer becomes fleet as a
/ roe on the mountains
Still we follow our Chieftain until
the government that gave him no pro-
/ lection insists that He pay tax. and,
| too poor to raise the req uisite 81 rs, He
orders Peter to catch a fish that has in
its mouth a Roman slater. which is q
/ bright coin land you know that fish
naturally bite at anything bright, but
| IL was a miracle that Peter should have
caught It at the first haul
Now we follow our Chieftain until
for the paltry sum of SIS judas sells
| Him TO his pursuers Tell it to all the
betrayed If for $40, 600 or $500. or for
500 your interests were sold out, con
slider for how much cheaper a sum the
Lord of earth and Heaven was sur
rendered to the humilities of death.
But here while following Him on
spring night between eleven and twelve
o'clock we see the fash of torches and
lanterns and we hear the cry
of q mob of nihilists. They are
breaking in OF the quietude of Geth-
semane with ciubs-lilSe a mob with
SUCKS CHASING a LklEQ QDEa II - q AiCL'4
of Jerusalem ''rouRhs'' led on by Judas
70 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? 81
will kiss Him." said Judas, and by
that signal you will know on whom to
lay your hands OF arrest" So the kiss
which throughout the human race and
for all time God intended as the most
sacred demonstrations of affection. for
Paul writes to the Romans and the
Corinthians and the ThessaIonians
concerning the holy kiss" and
Peter celebrates tn e kiss of charity.
and with that conjunction of lips
Laban met 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, aud 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 in
vited to greet Christ as inspiration cries
out; kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and ys perish from the way''-that most
sacred demonstration of reunion and af-
lection was desecrated as the filthy lips
of Judas tOvched the pure cheek OF
Christ and the horrid smack OF that
kiss has its echo in the treachery and de-
basement and hypocrisy OF all ages
In further following our great Chief
tain's march through the centuries.
find myself "a a crowd in front of
Herod's palace in Jerusalem, and on a
movable platform placed upon Il tas-
selated pavement, POntius PLATE sits
And as once year condemned crimi-
nal is pardonsd, PLATE lets the people
- Il - - I
or our ChieftRn. and they all cry for the
liberation of the assassin, thus declar-
ing they prefer murderer 20 the sat
walton of the world. PLATE took 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
Still following our Cbieftain, ] ascend
the hill which Gen Gordon, the great
English explorer and arbiter, first
made a 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 horizontal
pieces of the cross, but He is suffering
from exhaustion caused by lack of
food, mountain chills, desert heats,
whippings with elm wood rods and
years of maltreatmenE
I think our Chieftain must have
taken long time for the ascent, for He
had all earth and all Heaven, and all
hell on His back, as He elm bed from
base to summit, and there endured
what William Cowper and all the other
sacred poets have attempted to put in
verse. and all the great Italian, and
German, and Spanish, and French
artists have attempted to paint; and
Bossuet and Massiilon, and George
Whitefeld, and Thomas Cham bers have
attempted to preach
Something of its overwhelming
awfulness you may estimate from the
fact that the sun which shines in the
heavens, could not endure it; the sun,
which un1inchipgly looked upon the
deiuge that drowned the world, which
without blinking looked upon the ruins
of earthquakes which swallowed Lis
bon and Caracas and had looked m
blanched upon the battlefields of Ar
bella, Blenheim, Msgiddo and Esdraelon
and all the scenes of carnage that have
ever scalded and drenched the earth
with human gore-that sun could not
look upon the scene. The sun dropped
over its face a veil of cloud. 1t with
drew. 1t hid its face.
Now we follow our Chieftsin as they
carry His limp and lRcerated form amid
the flowers and trees Of a garden, the
gladiOluses, the Oieauders, the lilies,
the geraniums, the mandrakes, down
five or six steps to an aisle of granite
where He sleeps
But only a little while He sleeps
there. for there is an earthquake in all
that region. leaving the rocks to this
day in their aslant and ruPtured state
declarative of the fact that something
extraordinary there happened. And
we see our Chieftain arouse from His
brief slun Der and vErestIe down the
rufiian Death who would keep Him inn
prisoned in that cavern and put both
heels on the monster, and coming forth
with q cry that will not cease to be
echoed until on the great resurrection
day the door Of the last sepulcher shall
be unhinged and flung changing into
the debris Of demolished cemeteries
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without
wings He rises, the disciples clutching
for His robes too late to reach them,
and across the great CULTS Of space
with one bound lie gains that world
which for thirty-thrse years had been
denied His comPanionship. and all
Heaven lifted shout of welcome as
He entered and Of coronation as up the
mediatorial throne He mounted 1t
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