The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-02
Jesus told the traitor to leave her

Jesus told the traitor to leave her
alone.
Against my burial, this good work
shall be,
The poor ye always have-not always
me.O
Amounted for death, Jesus turns
from Bethany and goes towards
Jerusalem. AsiHe passed on the vii
lage street mother and Son for brief
moment meet. While her pierced
heart bleeds..He Gains her, and then
parts fromiMary on His way to death.
The scene. shifts. The twelve are
with Him fin the upper room. The
bread He:breaks, the wine-cup blesses,
and of both partakes, and then His
wealth of love.is.poured on all those
seated around the board. After the
supper he meekly stoops, with girded
towel, at the traitors feet. Judas flies
with hist3Ospieces in his grasp, and
leads the Roman band to Olives
shade. There he betrays his Master
with the kiss. The rulers meet. The
perjured .hireling swears His life
away, and when death is decreed,
Judas, stung by guilt, convulsed with
shame, fings.iback the shekels, and
with frenzied..stride, rushes to death
an outcast suicide.
But Plate finds it not. in his heart
to first declare the Saviour guilty and
sends Him to Herod, the fox, who
slew the Baptist in his prison cell.
Herod gives no:Ijudgment, however,
but with crafty skill sends Him
back to Plate. The crowd that but
on the previous dav welcomed Him
as the coming King, shout "Crucify,
we have no king but Caesar" Plate
pronounces the sentence, but proposed
that as the Paschal feast was nigh,
and at which one person doomed to
die, should be released, Christ should
be the one. But the crowd yelled
"Not Jesus, but Barabbas," a loath-
some wretch condemned for many
crimes to die. And Plate leaves the
victim to His fate. i,
All of this time Mary knows only of
the captureIPeter denied the Saviour
thrice, and John fastened to Mary,
and theyiare next seen wandering in
the city perplexed. Suddenly a cry
bursts on their ears and soon they see
Jesus being lead outside the city's
gates.
He bears His cross, and now as Mary
stops,
With looks aghast, beneath it's weight
He drops;
While, as with lightning stroke, upon
her gaze,
The whole truth flashes with consum-
Ing UldAC-
lis this the goal His lifsof love has
won,
Death on the cross accurst, My Son,
My Son."
Then the cross is raised. All things
in holy writ are there. The crown of
thorns, the reed, the Roman spear, the
parted garments, the seamless vest,
the foul-mouthed rabble, with coarse
jeer and jest, the wagging heads, the
rulers boastful cry, the sudden earth
quake, and the darkened sky. The
prisoner is nailed to the wood, be-
tween two thieves. He cries IRE
member me, Father, forgive them,'
and then looking towards Mary, "Be-
hold thy mother, son. When He
cried II thirst" they gave him vinegar
and gall. "Forsaken," he cries, and
then ut is Finished" commends His
parting soul to God and dies.
i u0 u0AC SC0u0 10 .Cu0 uoSC0uU duO
the placing of the body in Mary's
arms, for deaths long sleep arrayed
Then comes his burial. in the rock
hewn tomb, the passing of the mourn
ers, and only the spectral cross on
Calvary's brow left as monument to
the worlds worst shame.
"Simple scenes mark the dramas close.
In the gray dawn the Easter sunlight
gloWs;
At the graves mouth, arisen as He
The Lord appears; the living leaves the
dead; ......
And at last His radiant form is shown
In clouds ascending to the throne"
Fir. Cleary will bring all these scenes
out in words more realistic than pen,
and those who expect to see, or never
expect to see "The Passion Play"
should hear his wonderful description
of it. .>-.-.