The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-01

III cuniuAon, and rattinS TIER stall
hard down on tho marble door - they
arise to 60. they must feel like chidlns
the boldrs@s that allows twelve years
Of age to ask seventy I've year. Of ago
such puxxlers.
Out OF this building wo follow him
Into the Quarantania, the mountain Of
Its side to this day black
with robbers' dena LoSkl Up the
Gde Of this mountain come all the
forces o. perdition TO effect our Chief
tain's capture. But although weak
ensd by forty day. and forty nights Of
abstinence. he hurls al Pandemonium
down the rocks suggestive Of how be
can hurl into helplesxness all our temp
tationa
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 0alilee to the right Of him /;
the Mediterranean sea to the left Of
him, and he breaches O sermon 4hat yet
viii transform the world with It's ap-
piled sentiment Now we follow our
Chieftain on Lake Galilee. We must
keep to the beach. for our feet arc not
shod With the supernatural, and We re-
member what poor work Peter made
OF 1t when he tried to walk the water.
Christ our leades Is on the top OF the
tossing waves. and 1t Is about half past
three Ia the morning, and 1t In the darkest
time jsst before daybreak But by the
flashes OF ightning we see him putting
bis feet on the crest OF the wave, step
ping from crest to crest, walking the
white surf, solid az though it were
frozen snow. The sailors think ghost
Is striding the tempest, but he cheers
them into placidtry, showing himself to
be great Christ for sailors. And he
walks the Atlantic and Pacific and
Mediterranean and Adriatic now, and
# 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 blind man by the wayside.
It Is not from cataract of the eye or
from ophthalmia, the eye extinguisher
of the east, but he was born blind. "Be
openedw he cries, and first there Is a
smarting of the eyelids, and then twi-
light, and then a midnoon, and then a
shout. II seel Iseel" Tell it TO all
the blind, and they at least can sppre.
ciate 1t. And here is the widows dead
son, and here is the expired dnmsel,
aIIu uere XXak.fusI L1ve. -Oui
Chieftain cries, and they live. Tell II
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 tern on their couches and
blush from awful pallor of helpless ILL
ness to rubicpnd health, and the swoll
en- foot of the dropsical sufferer be
comes feet as 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 leper's breath becomes al
sweet as the breath Of child, and the
flesh as r0seate Tell 1t to all the sick,
through all the homes, through all the
hospitals. Tell it at twelve o'clock al
night; tell it at two o'clock In the
morning; tell it at half-past three, and
In the last watch OF the night, thai
Jesus walks the tempest.
THK KISS OF BETRAYAL.
Still we follow our Chieftain until the
government that gave him no protec
ton insists that he pay tax, and tot
poor to raise the requisite two dollar
and seventy-flve cents, he orders Pete
to catch fish that has in its mouth ,
Roman state, which is bright coli
(and you know that fish naturally bit
at anything bright, bat it was a mira
Gle that Peter should have caught 1t a
the first haul.
Now we follow our Chieftain unit
for the paltry sum of fifteen dollar
Judas sells him to his pursuers. Tel
1t to all the betrayed If for ten thou
sand dollars, or for five hundred do
lars, or for one hundred dollars you
interests were sold out, consider fo
how much cheaper a sum the Lord C
earth and heaven was surrendered {
humiliation and death. But here, Will
following him on a spring night b
tween eleven and twelve o'clock, W
see the fash of torches and lantern
and we hear the cry of a mob OF nihi
lists. They are breaking In on th
quietude of Gethsemane with clubs
like mob with sticks chasing a ma
dog.
| It is a herd of Jerusalem ''roughs
led on by Judas to arrest Christ an
punish him for being the loveliest an
best being that ever lived But riotel
are liable to assail the wrong mar
| How were they to be sure which on
was Jesusf Il VIII kiss him." "a!
Judas, '.and by that signal you wi
know on whom to lay your hands {
arrest" So the kiss which throughot
the human race and for all time &c
intended as the most sacred demon
/ stration of affection, for Paul writes
the Romans and the Corinthians an
the ThessaIonians concerning the '.ho
kiss" and Peter celebrates the kiss
charity, and with that conjunction
lips Laban met Jacob, and JOSEF
met his brethren, and Aarc
met Moses, and Samuel N
Saul, and Jonathan met David, al
Orpah departed from Naomi, and Pa
separated from his friends at Ephesu
and the father in the parable greett
the returning prodigl. and when Z
millennium shall come we are to
| righteousness and peace win kiss eaa
other, and all the world Is invited
greet Christ as inspiration cries on
'sKi~ the Son lest he be angry and
perish from the way.that most Q
cred demonstration Of reunion and
lection was desecratedia as the filthy u