The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-16

thirty-three miracles of Jesus may
well be added; for the latter were, 10
fact, parallels, tOo-deeds packed
with an ineXhaustibe symbolism.
The uphfted stones, the glaring faces
of those who thirsteG for His blood.
has just forcibly reminded Jesus of
the rapid approach of the night of
death, in which He must cease from
these symbolic deeds. He will crowd
the few remaining hours full oil them
e. Among the laZzaroni crowding
the approach to the temple stands
the well-known beggar blind from
birth. Pfenninger, with the instinct
of a poet imagines discussion
among the apostles as they half halt
in passing: Judas began, His par
ents must have heavily sinned. 3
Thomas replied Or God foresaw
great sin in him John adds, know
not what to think thereon Peter
finally breaks out, Master. tell Us
who e. The words OF Jesus
may have fallen upon the ears of the
unfortunate man, all the more alert
because the other sense was lost.
Those words may have been the seeds
of that faith which was so soon to
shake like Lebanon. Neither this
man nor his parents"
What JOY to be rid of the
odious imputation cast at him from
childhood, that his phenomenal sui
fering must be penalty of phenome-
nal sin! Now, that he is in this sad
and humanity speaking, remedies
plight. he furnishes a rare subject for
Ny Divine power, | will make him a
new, indubitable, and lustrous seal
upon My claim to Messiahship.'.
1t pleased the Master to condescend
to the use of the crude materia medi
ca of the day in order to strengthen
the growing faith of the unfortunate
man, and to make the cure the more
conspicuous. Across the city he goes,
holding the poultices of clay to his
sightless eyes, followed by an ever
increasing crowd of curiosity-mong-
ers, some of whom, no doubt, gibe at
his credulity. He went; he washed;
he saw. AS the clay lozenges dropp-
ed, Siloam's mirrored surface rehec-
ted for him the beetling crags of the
temple crowned mount, and over all
the azure dome. What won
der that his very neighbors doubted
the identity of the man upon whose
eXpressionless face the light of the
soul was now pouring through his
opened eyes The man himself has
passed into new world, but has no
doubt about his being the same man
who once cried on the temple steps,
PITY one born blindn Nor has he
q shadow of doubt as to who wrought
his cure. MaYhap some hired and
overalert emissary of the Sanhedrn
hales him before that august body.
nate catch they eyer made. The
man deposes like self possessed wit
ness. He rests the irresistible lever
of his logic upon an indisputable
fact, and bears down upon it with the
vigor Of true manliness. Behold you,
the ancient, Yaunted, colossal super
structure of an effete ecclesiasticism
topples to its fall. There is wild
scurrying to its rescue The
attempt is made to terrorize the
mans parents into the lie that his
blindness was not congenital. Their
very timidity enhances the value of
their testimony. The man himself is
now recalled, and, as if in his absence
foul plot had been discovered &c
foist Jesus upon the nation by means
of fictitious miracle, he is adjured
bv all the pains and penalties at dis
erection of the Sanhedrin to deny the
validity of his cure. Like q
pillar of Hercules this humble man
stands while the highest court of his
nation frets itself into foam of rage
against him. He is overborne al
length, and swept contemporary
out like so much filth and offscouring
But he is quickly found of Jesus and
ensconsced in that Church against
which the gates of hell shall ne'el
prevail.
The Teachers Lantern.
} picked up an autograph-album il
the home of my friend, Professor
Sultzberger, in Frankfort on the
Main, and, opening it at random my
eye fell on the. to me, familiar hand
writing of the irst Methodist bishop
to make the circuit of the globe The
sentiment was one never to be for
gotten: The question is not so much
how sin got into the world as how tC
. get sin out of the world.-C. Kings
ley" Jesus steers His disci
pies away from a subject that is pure
/ ly speculative in character. He at
tempts no theodicy. He simply af
firms that in this instance, though