The record-union., 1893-03-30

ing them, and the heads of the two men
reached to the heaven, but the head OF
hIill, VINO was being led along by them,
was higher tran the heavens. And they
heard voice from heaven which said:
Hast thou preached to them that are
asleep! and response was heard from
the cross, Yea
The watchers then deliberated amongst
themselves as TO going and making the
thing known to PLATE, and while they
were yet considering the matter the
heavens appeared again open and man
descended and entered into the tomb.
w hen those who were with the centurion
by night saw these things, they hurried
10 Pllate, leaving the sepulcher which
they were guarding, and they related all
which they had seen, being greatly dis
Son OF Cod And Plate answered and
sald to them, / am pure OF the blood OF
the Son of God, but this deed was your
good pleasure
Then they all drew near and besought
him and entreated him to command the
centurion and the soldiers to say nothing
of what they had seen. For it is better
Tor US, they said, to be gnilty of the great
est sin in the sight of God, than to fall
into the hands of the people of the Jews
and be stoned. PLATE thereupon ordered
the centurion and the soldiers to say
nothing.
And at the dawn of the Lords day,
Mary Magdelene, disciple of the Lord,
! who, being afraid of the Jews because
they We're inflamed by anger, had not
done at the sepulcher as women were
wont to do over the dead and those
that were beloved by them, took
her friends with her and came
to the tomb where He had been laid;
and they were afraid lest the Jews
should see them, and they said, Though
we were not able to weep and to be-
wall Him in that day when he was cruci-
| fed, yet now at the tomb let US do so.
But who shall rolllus away the stone
which was laid at the door OF the tomb,
that we may enter in and sit by Him and
do Him his due? For the stone was a
great one, and we are afraid lest some one
should see us, and if we are not able Ito
carry out our planl, let us cast down at
the door what we are carrying in remem-
brance OF Him, and let US weep and wall
until we reach our own homes.
And they came there and found the
| sepulcher opened; and drawing near
thither they stopped down, and they see
young man sitting in the midst OF the
sepulcher, beautiful and clad in most
dazzling robe, who said to them,
ye seek? Is it the one who was
crucified? He is risen and gone; and
if ye do not believe, stoop down and
see the place where He was laid for
He is not here; for He is risen, and has
gone to the place from which He was
sent,
"Then the women fed away in fear.
And it was the last day of the feast of un-
leavened bread, and many people were
going from the city to their homes, the
feast being ended. But we, the twelve
disciples of the Lord. wept and grieved,
and each of us in griet at what had hap
pened withdrew 10 his house. But /,
Simon, Peter and Andrew. my brother,
took our nets and departed to the sea, and
there was with US also Levi, the son OF
Alphaeus, whom the Lord ~
Here this interesting fragment of one
of the many gospels ends, leaving US ex-
pecting the recovery of the rest of it at NO
distant day.
Its value lies in this--it is a sample
OF what was commonly accepted as
gospel history by many in the early
church, and helps US to understand how
freely the Imagination was working with
the history Of the man Jesus.
t. j. HoRNER,
Pastor First Unitarian Church, Sacra-
mento.