The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-14
The TRANSPORTATION.


The dazzling whiteness of ever
lasting snow; the immOvable nigh
of rocky barricade; the solemn arch
of night-a more appropriate en-
virOment for the most lovely anc
majestic of scenes can not be
imagined Purity, power, solemn.
ity, were in the face of nature as
she beheld her Creators deifca-
ton. It was a week af-
ter Peters confession of the Mes,
siah S divinity and Jesus revelation
of the suffering i'll store for Him
"a week spent in the same local.
ty, and crowded with converse
about these matters-that the
Master went up at night into one
of natures oratories, some spur
of Mt. Hermon. He took with
Him the three most advanced of
His disciples, the dominant spirits
Of the apostolic college-the Rock
man and the Sons of Thunder.
x Lifted toward heaven
and above the possibility of intru-
sion, the four bowed in prayer.
Then, as afterward III Gethsemane,
the Savior went apart for a season
Of personal communion with His
Father, and the apostles wrapped
themselves in their outer robes and
fell asleep. Possibly, in that
darkest hour just before the dawn,
they awakened with an intuitive
apprehension of something prefer
natural transporting. They saw a
sight of fadeless spiendor, \
third ola century a1terward, Peter
wrote of it as if it had transpired
the day before. * The
form Of the servant, in which
Jesus had condescended to cloth
Himself thirty-three years before,
was now dissolving. The fullness
Of the Godhead was unveiled. He
shone, not like Moses, with a re-
Elected light; like the sun, his ra-
dience was self-derived. His
seamless robe became a web and
wool Of electric light, His counte-
nance like snow on which the sun
is shining, or like the sun itself
in meridian. But language of
earth is bankrupt in effort to de-
scribe that scene. The
etheralized body of Jesus rises,
and two holy ones come from glory
to meet Him in the air. The
souls of the apostles, keyed up to
the occasion, recognize the visi-
tants as, the one, the man of Sinai;
the other, the man of Carmel-the
fonnder and restorer of Israel. The
subject Of their conversation is the
same as that which Jesus had had
with His disciples at the base of
that very mountain-the cup He
was 50 soon to drink, the baptism
He was to be baptized with, the
exode He was soon to make.
< * = Peter, in the ecstacy of
his Joy, burst in upon the CONVEX
sation of the immortals. The
woody slopes, with their wealth of
cedar boughs, suggest the impro-
vising of hasty shelters, after the
manner of the Tabernacle feast
time. He will fain to prolong
this scene until all Israel can be
summoned to that mount, and be-
hold Moses and Elijah, the law
and the prophets, humbly paying
court to the glorifed Messiah.
That will end all opposition. The
nation will no longer be faithless
or unbelieving. * * Ineffa-
bly, glorious as the scene has been
already, it has not yet reached its
climax. That cloud-shape splen-
dor that appeared to patriarchs
and prophets, and rested on
the golden wings or the
cherubim, appears once more in
these latter days. Moses, Elijah,
Christ, law, prophecy, atonement,
are all wrapped in one. But the
superiority of Christ and His
atonement is avouched for by the
voice of the Father. If the law
giver and the prophet have such
an exalted glory, what must be the
divine majesty of the One in yhoca