Evening star., 1912-10-06

Of war-riven nations. and sits supreme.
julius Caesar is gone and Augustus is
passed away. All this, like armies
marching in the night, passes before
us as we sit upon the hill, and even as
we mediate upon the passing of all
these that seemed for time SO per-
manent; young Man climbs the mar
row path that leads to where we sit,
and resting, looks away toward the
west as though He saw some wOndrous
picture there. He is so simply dressed,
in homemade sandal and cameFS hair
sweater, in white tunic and wooden
cloth, that we may count Him but
one of the inha abitants of the village at
our feet, but as He gaZes toward the
sunset let us look through His eyes
and see
THE vision of the world, and the won
der that would be-
Nero is yet to rule and wreck, and
rob and ruin. Titus is to waste Jeru
salem: Constantine shall change the
outer garments of heather Rome; Goth
and Vandal Frank and Arabian Mo-
hammedanism; all these are yet to hold
the center of the world stage. Charles
Martel shall turn the Isjamic tide;
Atilla shall scourge the world; Tanner
lane shall vent his fury, and Charlie
magne shall gather the shifting sands
of tribal Europe and fuse them into the
| granite of earth'S most mighty clVlllza-
| ton.
| Italy shall furnish art and ultra-mun-
dane imagery, through Dante; William
of Normandy shall cross a channel and
| open j floodgate Of coloniZng zeal that
shall shame Phoenicia. Columbus shall
| push his tiny argosy across the unknown
| sea; Shakespeare shall dramatize hui
| manity, and Milton shall swing the CEN
| ser of his divine melody.
| Humanity shall chafe beneath it's bur-
den. and Cromwell shall found a deathless
| commonwealth Napoleon's star shall rise
and set; and inventive genius. born OF
Crusade and Renaissance, shall tunne
| earth and mount the sky Franklin Is
yet to seize the lightning, Newton tC
| solve the secret of the. spheres: Morse
annihilate time and space: Watt link the
| lands: and others dive beneath the seas
| or soar into the skies.
| AS we follow His vision, the young man
rises and takes His way. Back to the
| town He goes, and out of it to where a
man In hairy garments clad. proclaims
| the coming of the King. He is baptized
| is tempted, teaches three years, then dies
| upon d cross. All this we see and think
| ing on the scene. We see the followers OF
| that NaZarene stream out from old Jeru-
| salem to take the highways of the world
| for Him.
! Where heather temples stood His name
| is praised; where ancient altars smoked
His cross aspires; before their march al
| standards bow their heads, and ever as
they sing the victor's song. they cry
''Thy Kingdom, o Christ, is an everlasting
kingdom"
AS we descend the steep declivity from
which His feloWt ttownsmen sought to cas-
Him down for daring to proclaim Hi.
Messianic mission solemn silence rest.
upon the scene We stop to drink from
the fountain that gave Him drink. tt
pluck the grapes from vines like those
whose fruit refreshed Him in the Ions
ago. We stop at Cana, where His frs
miracle was wrought; at Main, besid,
whose gate He gave the widow back he1
son. We pass on to Jerusalem. to Cal
IL
press on the page of history.
As nations meet in their grave parlia
ments, as historians describe the deed
of men, as lovers date their tender mis-
sives or merchant princes dictate terms o
sale. they first pay tribute to the memor.
Of the young Man Of Nazareth, and writ