Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-09-07

Yes" | said, "there is Greece just
now is it once more a people Yet the
Greeks of to-day are not what the Greeks
of the old time were, and Greece herself is
but mockery of the Greece that was "
$50. The Hebrews are they yet at
Jerusalem? And does the Temple that the
wise king built stand! and if so, what
God do they worship therein? Is their
Messiah come of whom they talked 50
much and does He rule the earth?'
The Jews are broken and gone, and the
fragments of their people strew the world,
and Jerusalem is no more. As for the
temple that Herod built
d" Herod?' she said II know not Herod.
But 90 on"
THE Romans burned it, and the Roman
eagles flew across its ruins
$50, So They were great people,
! those Romans, and went straight to their
end-ay, they sped to it like Fate, or like
their own eagles on their prey-and left
peace behind them.
"Soitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant, >
suggested.
"Ah, thou canst speak the Latin tongue
too, she said in surprise. 1T hath a
strange ring in my ears after all these days,
and il seems to me that thy accent does
not fall as the Romans put it. Who was it
wrote that? know not the saying, but it
is true one of that great people. II
seems that | have met . learned man
one whose hands have held the water Of
the worlds knowledge. Knowest thou
Greek aso?"
Yes, oh, queen, and something Of
Hebrew but not to speak them They
are all dead languages now"
She clapped her hands in childish glee.
"Of a truth, ugly tree that thou art, thou
growest the fruits of wisdom, oh, Holly"
she said But Of those Jews, whom
hated, for they called me heather when
! would have taught them philosophy, did
their Messiah come, and doth He rule the
world?'
Their Messiah came" | answered,
with reverence; "but He came poor and
lowly, and they would have none Of Him.
The scourged Him, and cruclfed Him
upon a tree, but yet His words and His
/ and now of truth He rules half the
world, but not with an empire Of the
! world
"Ah, the fierce.hearted wolves" she
said 'the followers of Sense, and Of
many gods-greedy of gam and faction
torn! can see their dark faces yet. So
believe il That He was Son of the
Living Spirit would DC naught to them if
indeed He WAS SO, and of that we will
talk afterward They would care naught
for any god if he came not with pomp and
power. They, a chosen people, a vessel
OF HIM they call Jehovah, ay, and vessel
Of Baal, and a vessel of Astoreth. and a
vessel of the gods of the Egyptians-a
hlgh.stomached people greedy of au ght
that brought them wealth and power. So
they crucltied their Messiah because He
came in lowly guse, and now are they
scattered about the earth. Why, if
remember, so SAID one of their prophet.
that il should be. Well, let them 20 they
| broke my heart, those Jews, and made me
look with evil eyes across the world, ay
and drove me to this wilderness of a people
| that was before them When | would
! have taught them wisdom in Jerusalem
they stoned me; ny. at the gate of the
temple, those white bearded hypocrites and
rabhis bounded the people on TO stone me,
! see, here is the mark of it 10 this day: -
and with sudden move she pulled up the
gauzy wrapping on her rounded arm, and
! pointed to a little scar that showed red
against its milky beauty.
shrunk back Mortified.
Pardon me, oh, queen, said but |
am bewildered Nearly two thousand
years have rolled across the earth since the
Jewish Messiah hung upon His cross at
Golgotha. How. then, canst thou have
taught thy philosophy to the Jews before
lie was: Thou art a woman, and no
spirit How can woman live two thou.
sand years. Why dost thou befool me,
oh, QUEEN
She leaned back on the couch, and once
more felt the hidden eyes playing upon
me and searching out my heart.
"Oh, mani she said at last. speaking
very slowly and deliberately, cit seems
that there are still things upon the earth
of which thou knowest naught Dost
thou still believe that all things die, even
as those very Jews believed? | tell thee
that naught really dies. There is no such
thing as Death, though there be thing
called Change. See;" and she pointed to
some sculptures on the rocky wall. Three
times two thousand years have passed
since the last Of the great race that hewed
those pictures fell before the breath Of the
pestilence that destroyed them, yet are
they not dead. Fen now they live;
| perchance their very snirits are drawn to-