Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
CHE EMMAQS ROAD.
BY DIR. JAMES B. CLAYTON.
Luke C4:13.

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SsIIE Babel voice in thronged Jerusalem
Is lo.I in wrath, priest and soldier raj
OF brides and lies; the wrath of man, which God
Makes praise His power by disappointing those
Who p.t overthrow the truth, shrlls tort
In helpless rage; the empty tomb attests
The loss of Christ to maliced priests and guards
They set to watch and lie confessed the loss
And seek in vain the dead
And grieving love
Has lost Him. too the sword pierced mothers heart,
The friendess Magdalene, beloved John.
And others of the band of nearest friends,
Seek Him (but find Him not among the dead
And bringing spices mingled with their tears
Last tributes to their buried hope; tor love,
Like hate, has lost its prize.
Two men, of men
Most grave and sad with sigh and tear commune
On tragedy of murdered hope, the first
And last of 1sraers hopes, great Davd's Son.
Great Davids Lord The sleeping fathers, all
Had told that hope from Abrahams best day;
The ''Star of Jacob" fair. whose rising beams
Should light the nations path to boundess rule;
The Root and Offspring of the Shepherd King,
Whose sword and throne should quick subdue the EARTH
Exalt Jerusalem to pinnacle
Of envied state whose homage distant Rome,
Though mistress of the word-her purple robes
But rags to priesty garb at Gods own shrine
Should fear and bring her honors to the feet
Of Jewish Prince whose government should spread
Beyond the rising and the setting OF the sun,
Acclaimed in every land Alas for hope!
The Christ had come, had died and falterng hope.
The last far whisper of the mind, signs low,
1--WE trusted vain that it had been
Their hope
The hope that gives to kingdoms faiths and deeds
Their life and giving life itself may die,
AS dies the storm which nourishcs the earth,
Then binds the shower with rainbowed loneliness
Had wrought more than it dreamed Their living hope,
The stranger, who was He but hope-the hope
That can be Knocked or loved, but cannot be
Dead victim of life's tragedies, there;
And tale is told of sorrow and OF loss.
And told to Living Hope, unknown; yet hope
Speaks On the lone Emmaus Road lost JOY
Restores to hearts that ache, then burn. Christ
Gives heart and eye vision OF the life
Which gains by loss.
The Strangers welcome cheer
Brings Doubt and Hope to Enmaus. where shades
Of Night begin to fall. "Abide with u.s."
Constrain the 'raptured friends; and at their board
Hope breaks the bread and lifting nailscarred hands,
Blessed bread and heart for in the blessing Christ
Reveals the wealth of hope; what they had lost
In old jerusalem they find again, and more.
At Emmaus.
AS old as Evening Star,
AS new as morning sun, and stretching hands
To zenith and meridian of life;
And through all darkness peerlng into sky
And grave; immortal like the rls'n Christ;
Loves hope must know its loss. must even wear
The crown of horns, and yield its heart to spear,
BE buried in the dreaded tomb. Hopes hands
Scared bv its wounds, its feet torn by its cross,
Shall break their bands, for Hope survives the shock
OF death and will some Emmaus Road,
Changed bv its pain with hopeless hearts,
And bring to them what they have lost, with gain.