St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-26

he was now the embodiment of all God
had promised TO the worid-hal become
the Christ-the power of God and the
wisdom OF God. A parallel is found in
the judge who may be prejudiced
against a prisoner, who may hold theO-
ries of private revenge. bnt VINO, put
ting on the robe emble matte of the
offire he holds, and speaking in the
name OF the law, stands in representa-
tive position, an ideal and eunopled po-
sitlOn. Christ
Assumed the HHessiaElship
and became the representative of an
idea: but gave it far different meaning
from what it had i'll the minds of the
people. 1t was this assumption that led
Him to say, Before Abraham was, l
am" for He was born when the first
MeSSianic hope was born. Ana all
those expressions that related to His
mission have their root and origin
in this conception. In one sense he was
a man. The people of his town so spoke
of him. as have said, and asked.if they
did not know his brethren, and his
mother. He would not have been dis
tinguished from any other rabbi of his
time when he came down to the fords of
the Jordan.
But | do not believe the helarge-mind-
view of Christ, he gets more than a
view of the man-more than a view of
the preacher.
In a smaller way this may come to us
i'll our nation and our own people. For
it seems to me that i'll animpreS5ion
which one gets who stands at point
where he can see the track over which
Paul Revere rode on his way to LeXing-
ton, is an impression that he sees a new
meaning in L0ngfellow's sentiment,
which declares that those who caught
glimpse Of the flying hofsemah and
heard the stamp of the foot and the
cldtter of hOOTs-SaW a VISION that to
them Was not so much the picture of
Paul Revere. citizen of commonwealth,
as the fate of nation, in the saddle.
rallylng patriotism to rouse and arm for
the fray. There was mystic relation
to the story of the Blended Bow, said
to have gone through Britain in time of
great need, to rouse men to action and
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And when Patrick Henry slowly rose
in the Virginia legislature. aud taking a
deliberate view OF the situation, gath
cred within himself all the hopes of
patriots, all the dreams Of heroes, all
the Suifcrings of a free people engaged
in the arduous struggle for liberty
lueil he becomes t ..--t ,.ts
More Than Patrick Henry,
and allJthe SighS of the oppressed, all
the hopes of the valiant, all the prayers
OF the .devout, and all the promises felt
by loyal hearts are voiced in his speech
1T is distinctly more than the very
plain man in buckskin. who stands
there on the floor and talks in back
woods dialect after the speech is over to
the lOafers III the tavern.
There were hopes and aspirations
that Jesus failed to express. We only
get them by getting an impression from
him. One of the finest word pictures,
as colored by sentiment, that Tennyson
has ever painted seems to me to be the
description Of the last hours Of King.
Arthur. 1t describes the coming con-
SclouSneSS of the last hour. 1t carries
through the gloom of night with Sir,
MOureu as lie finally throws the SWORD
whose crust of jewels is worth a king
dom-thrOwS it flashing toward the lake
from whence arises the hand clothed in
"White samlte" to draw it under the
wave. 1t thrills us with mystic sense
OF supernatural things as we stand with
king and knight to see the boat ap-
preaching with its dark-clad crew, its
mystic music its air OF inScrutable myS-
Gery. anu tnen now tenueflY 40 we
cherish the words declaring the king to
be beginning journey to the far and
mystic valley of AvilliOn "Where falls
not rain nor hail nor any snow"
But TennySOn says that his highest
states came when, by repeating his own
name. he tell into self-imposed trance,
and though waking and fully conscious,
he seemed to have new sense of things;
to rise above hinself.to feel a disregard
for all pains and pangs of death, to
almost touch the hands of those now
gone before, to feel an elevation and
promise i'll the soul-a promise far be-
yond his power to express. SO have
dlWaysrfel that in some of the deepest
aspirations he was so lifted. so inspired
SO filled with the spirit, that we of com
moner clay fail to reach his height and
cannot understand aspirations.