Connecticut western news., 1891-10-01
CANAAN CONN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER

forces ui i.,..,...,n. ', effect our Chiet tain's cal,; ,,g:. h,.t although weak. ened by forty days and forty nights ot abstinence, he hurls all Pandemonium down the rocks, suggestive of how he 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 sermon that yet will 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 are not shod with the supernatural, and we re member what poor work Peter made of it when he tried to walk the water.
 Christ our leader is on the top of the tossing waves, and it 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 it were frozen snow The sailors think ghost is striding the tempest, but he cheers 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 haf-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 | openedl" he cries. and first there is a smarting of the eyelids, and then twi- light, and then midnoon, and then a | shout ''I seel seeI" Tell it 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 Iazarus "Livel" our Chieftain cries, and they live. Tell 1t 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 of helpless ill ness to rubicund health, and the swoll en foot of the dropsical sufferer be comes fleet as a 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 as sweet as the breath of child, and the flesh as roseate Tell it 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 half-past three, and in the last watch of the night, that Jesus walks the tempest.
 THE KISS OF BETRAYAL.
 Still we follow our Chieftain until the government that gave him no protec tion insists that he pay tax, and too poor to raise the requisite two dollars and seventy-ive cents, he orders Peter to catch fish that has in it's mouth a Roman state. which is bright coin (and you know that fish naturally bite at anything briyhD, but it was a mira cle that Peter should have caught it at the first haul.
 Now we follow our Chieftain until for the paltry sum of fifteen dollars Judas sells him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the betrayed If 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 a sun the Lord of earth and heaven was surrendered tu humiliation and death. But here, while following him on spring night be tween eleven and twelve o'clock, we see the flash of torches and lanterns and we hear the cry of a mob of nihil .ists. They are breaking in on the quietude of Gethsemane with clubs like mob with sticks chasing mad dog.
 It isa herd of Jerusalem 'roughs' led on by Judas to arrest Christ and punish him for being the loveliest ana best being that ever lived. But rioters are liable to assail the wrong man How were they to be sure which on' was Jesusy "I will kiss him." say Judas, and by that signal you will know on whom to lay your hands O. arrest" So the kiss which throughout the human race and for all time Gof intended as the most sacred demon stration of affection, for Paul writes l., the Romans and the Corinthians ano the Thessalonians concerning the 'hoi. kiss" and Peter celebrates the kiss O charity, and with that conjunction lips Laban met Jacob, and Joser met his brethren. and Aar.. met Moses, and Samuel ne Saul, and Jonathan met David, all, Orpah departed from Naomi, and Pau separated from his friends at Ephesus and the father in the parable greeted the returning prodigal, and when th' millennium shall come we are tol, righteousness and peace will kiss eacl other. and all the world is invited tt greet Christ as inspiration cries out ''Kiss the Son lest he be angry and ys perish from the way"-that most sa cred demonstration of reunion and af lection was desecrated as the filthy lips of Judas touched the pure cheek o1 Christ. and the horrid smack of that kiss has it's echo in the treacllery and debasenent and hypocrisy of all ages.
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