The Dickinson press., 1891-10-10

Aaluially plte AT anything Drlght),
but it was a miraclethat Peter should
have caught it at the first haul.
Now We follow our Chieftian until
for the paltry sum OF S15, Judas sells
himto his pursuers. Tell it to all the
betrayed. Ii for $40, 600, or TOR $500.
or for 800 your interests We're sold
out, consider for how much cheaper a
SUI the Lord OF earth and heaven
was surrendered TO humiliation and
death. But here while following him
on a spring night between IL and l2
O'Clock, WI seethe flash of torches and
lanterns and we hear
THE X OF A MOB
OF Nihilists. They are breaking in on
the quietudeof Gethsemane with clubs
like n mob with sticks chasing amad
dog. 1t is a herd OF Jerusalem
'roushs' led on by Judas to arrest
Christ and punish him for being the
loveliest and best being that ever
lived. But rioters are liable to assail
the wrong a How We're they to
be sure which one a 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 through
out the human race and for all time
God intended as the most sacred de-
monstration OF affection, was desc
Grated as the filthy lips OF Judas
touched the pure cheek OF Christ, and
the horrid smack OF that kiss has it's
echo in the treachery and debasement
and hypocrisy OF all ages.
In further following Jul great Chief
tain's march through the centuries, l
find myself in a crowd i'll front OF
Herod's palace in Jerusalem, and on
a movable platform placed upon q
tasselated pavement, Pontius plate
sits. And as C Il year a condemn
ed criminal is pardoned, PLATE let's
the people choose whether it shall be
an assassin or our Chieftain, and they
all cry out for the liberation OF the
assassin, thus declaring they prefer a
murderer to the salvation 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. They are
still lifted and l see them looming up
through all the ages, eight fingers and
two thumbs standing out red with the
carnage.
Still following our Chieftain; I as
cend the hill which Gen. Gordon, the
great English explorer and arbiterfr st
made a 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 horizon
tai pieces of the cross, but he is suffer-
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food, mountain chills, desert heats,
whipping with elm-wood rods, and
years OF maltreatment."
The sun dropped over it's face q veil
OF cloud. 1t Withdrew. 1t hid itself.
1t said to the midnight, 81 resign to
thee this spectacle upon which | have
no strength to gaze; thou art blind.
Oh, Midnight! and for that reason /
commit to thee this tragedy" Then
the nighthawk and the bat flew by,
and the iackal howled in the ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they
carry his limp and lacerated form
amid the flowers and trees of a gar.
den, the gladioluses, the oleanders.
the lilies, the geraniums, the mand.
rakes, down five OR six steps to ar
isle of granite where he sleeps: But
only a little while he sleeps there, fol
there is an earthquake in all that re.
gion, leaving the rocks to this day in
their ashanti and ruptured state de.
clarative OF the fact that something
extraordinary there happened. And
we see our Chieftain arouse from his
brief slumber and
wRESTLE down THE RUFFIAN dealt
who would keep him imprisoned in
that cavern and put both heels on the
monster, and coming forth with a cry
that will not cease to be echoed unit.
on the great resurrection day the door
OF the last sepulchre shall be unhinged
and flung changing into the debris o.
demolished cemeteries.
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder OF Mount Olivet, and with
out wings he rises, the disciples clutch
ing for his robes too late to reach
them, and across the great CULTS O
space with one bound he gains that
world which for thirty three year:
had been denied his companionship
and all heaven lifted q shout O
welcome as he entered, and of corona
ton as up the mediatorial throne h,
mounted. 1t was the greatest day
heaven had ever seen. They had hin
back again from tears, from wounds
from ills, from q world that neve
appreciated him, t. a world in which
he was the chief delight. In all til
libretto OF celestial music, it was hare
to find an anthem enough conjubilan
to celebrate the Joy sanity seraphic
archangelic, deitic.
But still we follow our chieftain il
invisibly he still walks the earth, an,
by the eye OF faith we still follow him
You nan tell where he walks by th
churches, and hospitals. and reforma
tory institutions, andhouses OF mercy
that spring up along the way. heal
his tread in the sick room and in the
abodes of bereavement. He marches
on and the nations are gatherin!
around him. The islands OF the ses
are hearing his voice. The continents
are feeling his power. America will b,
his! Europe will be his! Asia will b,
his! Africa will be his! Australia viii
be his! New Zealand will be his! AL
the earth will be his!
This dear old world whose back ha!
been s%courged, whose eyes have beer
blinded, whose heart has been wrung
will yet rival heaven. This planet
torn robe OF pain and crime and de
mentia will come off and the whit
and spotless and .
GATHERING ROBE OF HOLINESS
and happiness will come on. The las
wound will have stung for the las
time; the last grief will have wiped it
last tear; the last criminal will hav
repented OF it's last crime, and on
world that has been a%straggler anon
: worlds, a lost star, Maynard planet
arebelliousglobe, amiscreant satellite
will hear the voice that uttered chile
ish plant i'll Bethlehem, and agonize
prayer in Gethsemane and dyin
groan on Golgotha, and as this voic
cries Come" our world will retur
from its wandering never again t
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