The Irish standard., 1895-11-23

-.. :: Well. have you got your ticket Z! I
i asked.
Not yet tI8S
{ :. Have you got money with which to
purchase it?' ~ W. &
. No - =, e. - : X 4. 49,
How, then. are you going 2 Wa
81 do not knew, but the Master tells
me must CO. and he will provides way.
If do not see you again at present, you
will hear from me after while, and l
shall see you afterward under different
circumstances.
~His countenance was lighted up with
q strange interior light, and can imag7
me how an ignorant and superstitious
person, read only in Biblical matters,
might have created of that light the glow
that the old masters gave to the features
OF Jesus.
But how are you going?' asked him
again
The Master tells me to start on foot.
he said, with perfect confidence an equa-
ninity, and walk until l am so weary
that can go no farther, when Will IalF
asleep by the roadside, and during my
Inconsistencies shall be waited to Chi
scago without human aid or agency.
Several days passed, and l saw no
mere of him. His shop was deserted, anu
on inquiry ] learned that he had not Deen'
seen in any of his old hannts. THINK II
must have been ten days before saw MIN
again, meanwhile hearing nothing from
him. But one day he turned up sudden
iv. looking very haggard l questioned
hin and ne told me frankly and honestly
about. his experiences, saying that he
had walked during the day, as directed.
and slept out of doors at night, but each
morning had awakened on the very spot
where he had fallen asleep.
y was SO tired each night, he said
almost pirifully, that could not possibly
take another step, and should have sunk
to the ground exhausted long before did
had not the Master kept whispering
words Of encouragement to me.
How far did you Walk l asked.
~I do not know the distance, but it
was nearly to Cheyenne he replied.
s.'Hpw did you get back?' asked.
".As went. / walked. I needed the
discipline. suppose.
Flow do you account for the failure
OF the Master to DO as was promised!
/ Tellt,rred to say. - ''.--.E'
IT must be, he replied unresentfully,
With The air of martyr, as he sank into
a seat again. from which ne had arisen,
in his eager recital of the Incidents, not
q U
that I am not cleansed and purified
enough vet. I must fast some more.
81 did notsee him again for several days
and BEGAN TO wonder what had become
Of him: / wandered around to his little
c,h,ier-'s shop couple OF times to see
= ne rad needed the old Latin pYoyerb.
Ne s,itor ultra crepidam,' but he was not
visible. and | concluded he was fasting
somewhere Then late one afternoon he
came TO see me at my room in the motel,
enc asked me TO go down to the Union
depot with him.
At last I am going to Chicago he
said
Then you have your ticket?' asked,
though l am free to say, with much
ssentlcism, =.
Not vet he replied, quietly, though
I could see there was a blaze Of enthus,-
ssa behind the calmness. The Master
1old me to start down Seventeenth street
for ne depot and that ticket would be
provided ME before l got aboard the
rain.
Il was becoming decidedly Interested,
ana was very willing indeed to go with
him and see the outcome. We Went
down 10 the station, Schlatter looking
iEiently If not entreatingly into the face
o. every ,.ersor we net. But no one
noticed him particularly, and certainly
no one poEered him a ticket to Chicago.
We reached the station and stood around
while the people passed through the
gate On their way to their respective
sF7sins, eastbcund and otherwise. At
f.s1 his face WAS lighted with enthusi-
as.s. hut as train after lrain pulled out,
and he crowds dwindied till only here
aE! there a person straggied along, ana
GO miraculous transportation was forth
coming his face grew WiStful and almost
rincE4el and then something like despair
se+iIed over it. # you have seen him
YOU can understand how possible that
7zas. because his face, although stoiid IN
way. as becomes his ancestry, is really
a. expressive one, especially when he
iEloagines he is listening to the voices,
Or he Master as he puts it.
Well. after waiting there long time
Re gave it up, saying that he must have
aaSsed unooserved the person who was to
hand him the ticket. and reluctantly he
led the way back up town. really feel
ing softly for him, III his very reticent
grief and disappointment, and walking
.iacs BIZ his side quite as cast down as
H. was
! mink this was the last time I ever
Saw him 10 speak to him. He soon after
ward went down to New Mexico. whence
Il emerged a short time ago, long-haired
and long bearded, and began his So
called healing career,
Then you do not really believe he
reals any one?'
Il did not say that. He probably heals
:. case here and there, just as the faith
cusiSls do. see YOU look doubtingly al
iris statanient. Let me explain. He has
strong magnetic or hypnotic power, and
III certain cases OF nervous or mental
sFy,ua1a. and often in more serious phases
OF disease arising from disordered ment-
a. and nervous forces, he can effect q
cure by acting upon dormant will
power. ana undoubtedly has helped
many people So Afflicted
Then you think he is crafty and is
trading unaa the credulity OF the PEG,
r;e2"
BY TO directly. Indirectly
maybe. think he is honest, as all de
.5l,ise people are and is doing his best Je
.53 suffering humanity. Probably ht
ices GoI yet und srstand his own condi-
t.oa or his gift. as his deluded followers
call 1t and is feeling. his way
DO you think it is honest to claim tc
;se the Messiah"
Certainly not But I do not think be
DOS claim that. As / understand it, he
merely claims to be d Messiah: and the
minimizing people easily make the blum.
der o. substituting the for "a ,"