The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-21

Paul, confined within. He is reputed
the founder of new religion; and his
name is in every mouth His teachings
have won over multitudes and he has
been condemned to death.
We are ushered into the cell, and il
the dim light our eyes fall upon the
white head and bent figure of a mar
chained to a colossal Roman guard
We approach, but he notes us not. He
is absorbed in prayer, not to the gods
we have seen others adoring, but tc
an unseen God. We listen and hear the
words I bow my knees to Thee, Faith
er of heaven and earth The prayer
ended, he rises and, seeing strangers
greets us with the words, What wouldst
thee, good friends, with Paul the aged?
Speak We, for time hasteneth.' We an
! sWer, We are strangers, good Paul, WIS.,
F., iting the city. We have heard of this
new religion you preacheth of Jesus
Christ who has promised that He will
come again, and we have come to ask
you if you would be pleased to tell us Of
it. He answers us in his calm, COM
manding voice, For forty years / have
been preaching this faith, and gladly
will I tell you Of it; but where will L
begin?' Begin, sir, with your own life
. was the answer.
| And so he goes on and tells us a
most wonderful story-the story of his
own life. I was born he begins, "a Jew.
| / was brought up in the strictest man
| ner in the household of a Jew and was
| taught to hate all who did not worship
the Jehovah. Such was my boyhood.
knew no God other than the Jehovah,
and I disliked all who did not worship
as did.
AT twenty I went to Jerusalem to
finish my education, where studied un-
der the greatest master of the age.
Whilst there, there came tidings of
strange events that seemed to stir men
strangely-tidngs of a strange man
who had appeared in the desert--a man
dressed in skins and who lived on wild
honey, who preached strange doctrines.
Soon we heard that he had come out OF
the desert and stood near the banks of
the Jordan, where he daily addressed
large crowds and cried to them, Re
pent We. Repent! Repent The coun-
try around was stirred as never before
and thousands confessed their sins and
were baptized in the Jordan. Soldiers
fierce and bloody, came to him and said,
what shall we do?" and to them he
said, Repent! Repent! Repent! and
no more accuse man falsely To him
went our scribes and Pharisees, who
asked him what they should do. But
when he saw the proud and learned
Pharisee stand before him, condescend-
ing to ask his advice, he could not con-
tain himself and said, who warned we
to repent?" And at these words they
asked, "Who are you? Are you Eli
jah?" He answered. May, / am but a
voice, but one will soon come who will
cleanse We all"
"'As John was baptizing them one
day his eye fell upon youth in the
throng, fair-haired and with face of
exquisite beauty, who said, Let me also
be baptized" Johns naughty head fell
upon his breast and he trembled as he
said, st cannot, master. Is it for you
to ask it of me who should beg it of
you?" But the youth insisted and John
baptized him in the Jordan; and as he
did so the heavens seemed to part and
from it a voice came saying, "This is
my beloved son." The very next day,
as John was preaching in the desert, |
he saw the youth again in the distance |
and he cried out, 'There is the saint of
the Lord"
"The country trembled and wonder
ed what it all meant; and then John
died and at his death came the news
that the same youth was moving
GallileeI proclaiming himself
the Son of God And after him the
whole country seemed going mad. All
his news came to me in Jerusalem. We
hen sent out our doctors to study him.
They watched him and studied him and
.ook down his words; and from the re-
suit of their studies they declared him
IN impostor.
"'By and by in the third year Of his
life he came up to jerusalem to great
east, and there our leaders seized him
md obtained permission to put him to
leath They crucified him, and as he
lied tainted him. Then sthange things
occurred The heavens darkened aud a
treat strange stiffness prevailed, and,
With the words Father, I am coming
to-, gave up the Ghost.
"'With his death came strange ru-
nors that he would rise. Our leaders
coffed at them, but took extra precau-
ions We sealed up his tomb and
uarded it strongly, But on the third
ay came the report that he had risen,
hat he was gone. This was too much
Or my people, and, becoming afraid and
nraged, they carried their persecution
gainst his followers and killed many
f them. And I was one of the leaders
! the persecution
"'And then one day youth called
tephen accused us openly of having
illed our Messiah. We chased him
Ito the streets and stoned him to death.
nd as he fell his pretty head ming
ng with the dust, / heard him utter
lie words, Forgive them, Father, they
now not" was troubled thereas but :
,asoned to myself that it could not be.
hortly after that as I was entering the .
ty one day I was struck down with a
roke of lightning, and from the heav
IS came the words, Paul, why perse
ltest thou He?" "Who are your" he
led And then came the words, Il am d
4sus, whom thou persecutest." And l "
len asked, What wouldst Thou have u
e do?" For three days [ was blind u
I'd then the scales fell from my eyes
i'd I thence for forty years have pro-
aimed His Word. This is my story
"Well, Paul. well hast thou told it,
1t now that thy work is done what II
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