The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-04
THE DARKEsT NIGHT.

lie then having received the sop
went out straightway, aud it was
night Earth darkest nigh, is not
shat one ON which the lights are out
and the stars refuse to shine. Nor
yet 10 the night Of sorrow the darkest.
1t may be true that then life's light
is dimmed, ard great gloom settles
over ones poor spirit. But there is
darker night still-,he night of re-
morse, when raging grief and shame
Have burned the heart to ashes-when
enc marches away condemned from
she judgment bar of his own soul
when one feels, as Judas did, that he
is undone, and earth has no relief for
him-that the only way out Of this
aight is by suicidsl hand toopen
ahe gates which usher into night
shat is darker still.
How many interviews Judas had
with the priests, we do not know.
All along for TWO years or more, they
had been watching their chance.
Maybe this knowledge had been like
Gre. e.brand in the mind Of Judas.
The eyesof the priests had been to
Judas like the eyes of a serpent to q
lI~
bird. He knew that the opportunity
for: q bargain was never closed to hin,
aud this knowledge at last conquered
him. Iused TO play checkers some
aimes With my dear old friend, Ned
gut,ino, now gone away from me, and
sometimes he would not hesitate to
show me q trap he had set for me.
He fixed it,. and leftis there, feeling
son6dentt that, sooner orlater, I would
iall into 10, ard generally did. So
Sic high priests did. They did not
conceal their designs, and judas was
saught at last. God pity the man
Who has TO i've daily and hourly with
40 sight and soSnd Of . great tempts-
,sionl The time came when Jadas
aoald hold ont no longer. Z guess it
I is: s sort Of apology brother disciple
skesI for him when he says, Satan.
entered into him. =
So, one night while stiff argument
vas going onin the l,ail Of the assem-
hled high priests, there was q cat-like
step approaching the door, and then
sa timid rap. The man who stood
sshere looked quickly about 70 see if
he van watched, aud was iripasient
I'LL the door was opened. Then be-
hold the spectacle that fellows under
she glare and fash Of the lights
Jesus. friend, Jesus disciple has
eome 10 bargain with Jesus enemies!
The moment the priests found out
Why he had come, they assumed 8
patronizing air. What they said
gsinst Jesus, how they denounced
him, and looked langhingly into each
others eyes, will never be known.
But the contract was made. The
Lord was sold, and Judas had the
money in his open palm-thirty pieces
tt~~lc y = ~
OF silyer-hfteen or twenty dollars IN
our money Then he went ous- His
bargain was that he would KISS ms
Master when ne found him, and 50
point him ont. Therefore ne told
shem when and where to come.
he accomplishing OF = wicked !.
scheme-the nervous exclsement %
she thIpg-wlll keep one up ior
awhile; but the spirit quali!s at last.
That money there insJudas hand IS
not doing him any good now. Nay,
he clutches it tightly, lest scme one
should hear it rattle. The very sound
ef the gold in his hand would startle
him more than the hiss OF serpent
ip his bosom. Did he despise him.
self2 Yes, and that was bad enough,
sbnt those men whom he had left
they despised him too-those priests.
They had paid him their money. but