The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-10-02

wherefores and hows and whens they
pull their white boards with embarrass.
lnent. and rub their wrinkled foreheads
In confusion, and putting their staff
hard down on the marble door a. they
arise to 60, they must feel like chiding
the boldness that allows twelve years
Of age to ask seventy. flve 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
tain's capture. But although weak.
ened by forty days and forty nights OF
abstinence, he hurls all Pandemonium
down the rocks suggestive Of how he
can hurl into helplessness 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 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 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 ofithe
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
bis feet on the crest Of the wave, step
ping from crest to crest, walking the
white surf, solid a. though 1t were
frozen snow. The sailors think ghost
Is striding the tempest, but he cheers
them into placidity. showing himself to
be a great Christ for sailors. And he
walks the Atlantic and Pacific and
Mediterranean and Adriatic now, and
II 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
openedl" he cries. and first there is a
smarting Of the eyelids, and then twi-
light, and then midnoon, and then a
shout. II seei seel" 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 dansel,
and here is Lazarusl ''Live!" our
Chieftain cries, and they live. Tell it
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 III
negl to rubicund health, aud the swoll-
en- foot Of the dropsical sufferer b.
eomss 6eetas y roe On ths nlountains.
The mt1sic III the grove md household
wakens the deaf Ell, and lunatic and
maniac return into bright intelligence,
and the leper's breath becomes as
sweet a. the breath of afchild, and the
flesh az roseate Tell II to all the sick,
through all the homes, through all the
Tell 1t 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-
lion insists that he pay tax, and too
poor to raise the requisite two dollars |
and seventy-five cents, he orders Peter
10 catch fish that has in its mouth a
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land you know that fish naturally bite |
1T anything bright, but it was mira
Gle 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 Ave hundred dol
lars, or for one hundred dollars your
interests were sold out. consider for
how much cheaper q sum the Lord OF |
earth and heaven was surrendered to |
humiliation and death. But here, while |
following him on spring night be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock. we
see the fash of torches and lanterns
and we hear the cry of mob of nihil-
lists. They are breaking in on the
quietude Of Gethsemane with clubs
like mob with, sticks chasing mad