Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-12-19

not penetrate into the bottomless depth. Judas
Is it with kiss you betray the Son of MANI"
And he saw how that monstrous chaos trembled
and stirred. Speeches. and stern like death in
its naughty majesty stood Judas Iscariot, and
within him thousand impetuous and fiery voices
groaned and roared.
Yes! We betray thee with the kiss of love
With the kiss of love we betray thee to outrage,
to torture, to death! With the voice of love we
call together the hangmen from their dark holes,
and place cross-and high over the top of
the earth we lift lover, crusifed by love upon
cross"
Thus stood Judas, silent and cold like death,
and the shouting and the noise about Jesus an
swered the cry of his soul. With the rude IT.
resoluteness of armed force with the awkward
ness of vaguely understood purpose, the soldiers
seized him and dragged him somewhere-ther
frresoluteness they mstook for resistance, their
fear they mistook for derision and mockery over
them. Like a herd of frightened lambs the dis
ciples stood hudded together not interfering with
anything, yet disturbing everybody and even
themselves. Only few of them resolved to walk
and act separately. Jostled from all sides, Peter
drew out the sword from it's sheath with difficulty
as though he had lost his strength and family
lowered it upon the head of one of the priests
without causing him any harm. Jesus, who no
ticed it, ordered him to throw down the unneces-
sary sword and, clanking family. the sword fen
to the ground
children at play found it and made toy of it.
When Jesus was led away Peter, who
had hidden himself behind the trees came out and
followed his Master in the distance Noticing an
other man in front of him, who walked silently
he thought that it was John. and he called him
softly:
John is that your"
And is that you Peter?" answered the other
pausng, and by the voice Peter recognized the
Traitor Peter, why did you not run away to-
gether with the others?"
Peter stopped and said with contempt
Leave me, Satani'
Judas began to laugh and paying no further at
tention to Peter. he went farther there where the
torches were flashing dimy and where the clank-
ing of the weapons mingled with the footsteps
Peter followed him cautiously and thus they en-
tered the court of the high priest almost stimuli
taneousy and mingled in the crowd of the priests
who warming themselves at the bonfires
Judas warmed his bony hands morosely at the
bonfire and heard how Peter said loudly some
where behind him:
NO, do not know him"
But 1t was evident that they were insisting
there that he one of the disciples of Jesus
for Peter repeated still louder But do not un-
derstand what you are saying
Without turning around. and smiling involun-
tarily, Judas shook his head affirmatively and
muttered:
1nats right, Peter. DO not give up your place
near Jesus to anybody"
And he did not see how the frightened Peter
walked away from the courtyard And from that
night until the very death of Jesus Judas did not
see single of the disciples Of Jesus near
him, and amid all that multitude there were only
two, inseparabe until death, strangely bound to-
gether by suferings-he who had been betrayed
to abuse and torture and he who had betrayed
him. Like brother, they BOTH the betrayed and
the traitor drank out OF the same cup of suffer-
ings, and the fiery liquid burnt equally the pure
and the impure lips
He saw how the soldiers led Jesus away Night
was passing the bonfires were dying out and were
becoming covered with ashes, and from the sentry
house came duh cries, laughter and abuses They
were beating Jesus. AS though lost Iseariot was
running around the. deserted yard. now stopping
lifting his head and then starting to run again
stumbling upon the bonfres and the walls Then
he chung to the wall of the sentry house and.
stretching himself chung to the windows to the
creyices in the doors, and looked greedily to see
what was going within. He saw a narrow
sitting room, like all the sentry houses in the
world, with filthy floors and walls And he saw
man being beaten. They beat him on the face
on the head. they hurled him like soft bale from