“There followed him a great company of ... women, who also bewailed him.”—Luke.
Gabriel: “Hail, highly favored among women blessed!”
Mary: This is my favored lot!
My exaltation to affliction high!
—Milton.
For many days Sir Charleroy and Miriamne tarried at Acre, the latter seeking to banish2 repining on account of him whom she had sent away at the behest of conscience, by ministries3 for her parent. With alacrity4 she joined the tours of her knightly6 father, visiting the scenes where he once battled, listening, from time to time, with unaffected delight, to his recitals7. The tides of fanatical conquests had wrought8 few changes on the face of the city, and the realism of those days of siege, of the stern compacts made in the last hours of the Crusaders, the solemn religious services before the last battle, the death struggle and the disordered retreat, was complete. The excitement of revived memories seemed to lift up the knight5 from the syncope of ill health. This encouraged the maiden9 to solicit10 the reviews and recitals of her father. The night before their departure from Acre, as determined11, the knight and his daughter stood together contemplating12 the sacred pile[420] which stood in the moonlight and shadows, mostly in shadows. The soldier of fortune, having told its story over and over, was now silent, dreaming of the past.
“Selamet!”
They both started, for the voice was like one from the tomb, none but themselves being apparent.
“I’m afraid here; let’s be going, father,” whispered Miriamne, essaying to withdraw.
Thereupon there glided13 out of the shadows a stately form who, drawing near to the father and daughter, spoke14:
“Fear not, lady! Knight, they can not be foes15 who court kindred memories and hope of like colors at the same shrine16!”
“I wear the Turkish ‘selamet,’ as I do this Turkish harness, a loathed19 necessity, but without; the peace I pray and feel is the mystic inner peace.”
“As a Christian?”
“A pious22 Jew would as soon adhere to Astarte with her orgies as to bow to the mooned-crown she wore.”
“Jews? No, not Jews! Such would not sooner run from the moon-mark than they would from the shadows which fall down about you from yon grand and awful sign.”
“No more avoidance; we are brethren. I’m Sir Charleroy de Griffin, Teutonic knight.”
“And not unknown. The story of thy valor25, even[421] here, lives in the bosoms26 of true companions. I’m a Knight Hospitaler of Rhodes, yet fameless.”
The two men came closely together; there were a few secret tests. The Hospitaler said:
“In hoc signo vinces!”
Sir Charleroy crossed his feet, stretched out his arms and murmured something heard only by his comrade. It made the other’s eyes lighten with pleasure.
To Miriamne it was a dumb show; but the tokens given and received were useful to pilgrims in those perilous28 times.
“Whither, Sir Charleroy?”
“To-morrow, toward Joppa.”
“So, ho! By interpretation29, The Watch-tower of Joy. From thence one may see Jerusalem! And then?”
“And then? God knows where! A useless life, like mine, is ever aimless.”
“No, no, father!” interrupted the daughter; “not useless. No life that God prolongs is useless.”
“True; the girl is right, Teuton. Aspiration30 will cure thee, since it’s the mother of immortality31. I go to Joppa also.”
“They say, Hospitaler, its sea-side is full wild; its reefs like barking Scylla and Charybdis? I hope it may be so; I’d like a terrible uproar32.”
“But the people? They say Joppa’s outside is fine, naturally, though, within, the life of its people is mean, colorless; a charnel-house whose activity is that of grave worms!” And Sir Charleroy shuddered34 with disgust at his own figure.
“I think the legend of Andromeda, said to have[422] been chained to Joppa’s sea-crags for a season, to be persecuted35 by a serpent, then freed, prophetic. Joppa may have a future.”
“How?”
“Oh, the chained maiden was boasted by her fond mother as more beautiful than Neptune’s Nereids, hence the persecution36. Crescent faiths have been the persecutors of Joppa and all the other beautiful Andromedas of this land.”
“No, not certainly. There was, in the myth, a Perseus of winged feet, having a helmet that made invisible and a sickle38 from Minerva, goddess of wisdom; he slew39 the serpent, then wed1 the victim.”
“Now the key, further.”
“When wrongs overwhelm all, women suffer most; but time brings their deliverance.”
“The myths are as full of women as the women full of myths!” exclaimed Sir Charleroy.
“But Andromeda, the woman, was blameless!”
“Yet it’s strange that in all men’s fightings, as in their religions, constantly the woman appears,” replies Sir Charleroy.
“I’d have thee think, knight, of the legend; it tells how men, in those dark times, tied their faith to the sure conviction that right would triumph, wrong be slain40, and the martyrs41 at last go up among the stars. See how they placed their Andromeda in the constellation43 now above us. Perseus was a Christian, or rather a Christian was a Perseus.”
“Now, thou art merry!”
“No; I mean St. Peter; he was a Perseus. Hearken to the word:
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“‘Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple44 named Tabitha: this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds.
“‘And it came to pass that she died.
“‘When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber46: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which she made, while she was with them.
“‘But Peter put them all forth47, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body, said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
“‘And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up; and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
“‘And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.’”
“Why, Hospitaler, thou hast a memory like an elephant or an emperor and a tongue like a sacrist!”
“Well, the time for swords being past I have taken to books; their leaves are wings. The world will be conquered yet by the words of the Swordless King.”
“And thou wouldst liken Tabitha to Andromeda?”
“Wasn’t she a real beauty, as her name is interpreted? Beautiful old soul! She robed the poor! Peter bringing her to the truth of the new life smote48 the dragon at Joppa, as a very Perseus.”
“After that Peter slept on the house top of Simon the Tanner, and God gave him the vision of Jew and[424] Gentile, bond and free, rich and poor; all, as one family coming into the benign50 rays of the Sun whose wings are full of healing.”
“Surely as the morning to Acre; but we must hie homeward; good-night; I’ll see you at the quay52 to-morrow.”
From Acre, Miriamne and her father, next day, set sail. The companions on the journey from Acre by Joppa arrived at Jerusalem, there to separate soon, for Miriamne, with every ingenious device, urged her father forward. Bozrah was constantly uppermost in her mind.
“We part, Sir Charleroy, to-morrow?” said the Hospitaler.
“If thou dost elect to stay in sad Jerusalem, surely.
“Yes; I’d go mad here from doing nothing but wrestling with my thoughts. In fact, I guess I’d go mad anywhere, if long there. I think, sometimes, that my mind’s in a whirlpool, moving not like others; yet, round and round in some consistency53, carrying its befooling creeds55, hopes, dreams, visions, phantasmagoria in a pretty fair march. I’m sure, more than sure, that if I once stopped moving, my brain would rest like a house after a land-slide, tilted56 over, while all the things in the whirlpool would drift about in hopeless confusion.”
“Thou dost talk like a physician, gone mad with philosophy!”
“No doubt of it; that’s all because I’ve been idling here a month; a week longer and God knows who could set me going again, rightly.”
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Then the knight laughed merrily; very merrily, in fact, for a man who had trained himself to morbidness57. The Hospitaler replied:
“I see nothing for me beyond the Holy City and its historic surrounds. I’m training myself to proclaim God’s kingdom and must begin at that pre-eminent, world over-looking point, Jerusalem.”
“But there are no schools to fit one there?”
“The most informing and man-expanding on earth; the deathless examples of the worthies58; best studied where they lived their mightful living. I go now to Golgotha.”
“Even so, sometimes called the Valley of Jehosaphat.”
Sir Charleroy rubbed his head as one well puzzled, and was silent.
“Oh, knight, thou hast forgotten the goings forward of Ezekiel’s mind, prophetically. It was in Kidron, the Golgotha Valley, that he had the vision of the dry bones. Let me read:
“‘And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
“‘Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
“‘As I prophesied62, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
“‘The sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them.
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“‘Then said he unto me, say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
“‘So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.’”
“And now, soldier, turned exegete, tell me what thou dost make of the strange phantasm?”
“That God will work in this world a marvelous transformation63; those living-dead, all around us and beyond, to the ends of the earth, shall stand in new life. The scene is laid to be in this Kidron valley, to bring all minds to the ‘Light of the World,’ who passed in painful triumph along it, even unto Calvary.”
“But this may not be so, yet it so seems?”
“Hearken again to the prophet’s happy ending:
“‘Moreover I will make a covenant64 of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting65 covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary66 in the midst of them for evermore.
“‘My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’
“All this,” continued the Hospitaler, “is what is to come, is coming. The dawn of this day began when Jesus passed over Kidron!”
“And yet, Rhodes, I’m doubtful. Do not the correspondences remote, mislead thee?”
“If a crusade leader sent a summons like this wouldst thou respond, trusting? ‘Blow ye the trumpet67 in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand?’”
“The Hospitaler knows I would.”
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“Well; God by His Prophet-Herald, Joel, so alarms the nations. And more, we have a broader summons,” and the preacher soldier read again:
“‘Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
“‘Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehosaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
“‘Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
“‘The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
“‘The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
“‘Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.’”
Then the Hospitaler closed his eyes, turned his face upward as in prayer, and began speaking like unto one in a rapture69 or trance:
“When souls would measure themselves for judgment70, they must stand by the scenes wrought out by Him that died for men; just hereabouts, when the last judgment comes, the multitudes of earth, tried by the measure of the God-man, will be brought face to face with God’s standard of moral grandeur71, sublimely72 once displayed here. Before its splendor73 the stars, the finest of men, shall wax dim; human philosophy, the sun of the world, go out, and human religion, ever[428] the child of human desire, shall fade as the setting, waning74 moon, that emblem of the concupiscent. Then Charity, that never fails, shall come to her throne, the last implement75 of war be beaten into services of love, while the weak, no more dominated by giant brutality76, shall rise to the pre-eminence of moral strength. Adam and Eve, the fallen pair, passed through the valley of sorrow and sin, downward; Christ and Madonna, the new ideals, passed through the valley of sorrow and salvation, upward.”
“Oh, Rhodes, the whirl of my brain is as if touched by the swellings of an anthem77. I’ll come right yet, if thou dost enravish me so!” cried Sir Charleroy.
And Miriamne’s face shone as if the sun were on it, but it was not. She was looking away, in soul, to the future. The Hospitaler continued:
“Truly, all heads, as well as hearts, are righted here, where the touch of the Cross makes the dry bones live. Here get I my schooling78; this place of the Cross, where the depths of sin, the heights of love, are manifest; from which radiates all holiest tenets, to which and from which flow the streams of Scriptural truth. If only we could get all men to stand sincerely on this lofty hill of vision, overlooking all times to come, all histories past, all mysteries would be explained, all prophecies become clear, and there never would be need on earth again for wars of faith or the burning of heretics. Pilate spake welcome words to the ages when he cried: ‘Miles, expedi Crucem’—‘Soldiers, speed the Cross.’ Its speed is light’s speed.”
“Here,” said the Hospitaler, “it is reported that[429] Jesus yearningly81 looking back to the weeping women that followed him Cross-ward, cried: ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and children.’”
“The woman again in religion!” exclaimed Sir Charleroy.
“Immanuel spoke to the world, then. When truth goes to crucifixion, women and children—the weaker—may well weep. It’s the Giant’s hour. So children and women ever have been the chief followers83 of Jesus. No wonder that children brought palms of peace to Him and shouted His praises, while women anointed Him with tears. They knew, by an holy intuition, that somehow He was the King of Love, the defender84 of weakness.”
“I begin to think, Sir Knight Hospitaler, that the sun of this country has wrapped its gold about thy brain.”
“Oh, father, don’t prevent; these words of his are balm to my soul,” quoth Miriamne.
“Speak on, for the girl’s sake, knight. Speak on; I’ll be silent.”
The Hospitaler continued:
“Daughter, thou dost follow the story as those holy women followed Jesus, afar off; but with tenderness. As they found later unutterable nearness, so shalt thou; God willing.”
“The woman in religion! It’s so. I, a man; this Miriamne, a woman, a girl, my daughter. I’m like a pupil to her, yet I professed85 this cross-faith more than a score of years before she was born. I’d need a millennium86 to overtake her, in glory, if we both died now. I’m like poor old David, who fled from his rebellious[430] son, Absalom, over the hills that skirt Kidron. I’m dethroned.”
“Remember, rather, that He who glorified87 Kidron was ‘obedient unto death.’ Mother and son, together all loving, all loyal in that dread88 hour, here attested89 that in David’s kingdom, at the last, at its best, there will be no trampling90 on the family ties, Sir Charleroy.”
“Wonderful! I never thought of this before, after this manner. But still, the woman leads the world in religion!”
“The woman! Yes, but only when she takes her place, as did Mary, as a follower82 of Jesus to Calvary.”
“But how, now, about Astarte, Diana, Baaltis?”
“They had their day; rude, gross phantoms91; conceived in the hot souls of low and lecherous92 men; but I told thee, here we might overlook the world. In this valley Athaliah, daughter of cruel Jezebel, Queen of Ahab, and, like her mother, an Astarte-socialist, worshiped the lewd93 ideal, Baaltis. Death, in shocking form, took off that heathen queen of Israel. God’s revenge, this was.
“And now, I remember that the queen mother of Asa, here, in Kidron, set up the worship of Ashera with its Phallic mysteries; but Asa, the youth, pure of mind and led of God, not only tore down, root and branch the groves94 and woven booths of licentiousness95, but dethroned the woman who had set them up. Just here, in finest contrasts, I remember the Virgin96 Mary, the pure mother, the ideal woman, who, in this valley of decision, rose for all time the exemplification of truest womanhood—a wife, a mother. Mary has broken forever the idols97 of Baaltis. While Mary’s memory lasts, part of the enduring, sacred history, toward which all[431] Christian eyes turn, Astarte can never rise under any name or form for long toleration. She is forever broken, and her creed54 of lust98 fated to reprobation99.
“Wherever this gospel story, eternal and eternally new, is told, there will come to the minds of the hearers a vision of those associated in the last dread hours of the Divine Martyr42, in a fellowship of sympathy and sorrow. Among these will stand pre-eminent the women. Simon, the Cyrenian, compelled by the soldiers, aided the trembling sorrow-burdened Christ to bear the cross. And it is easy to believe that the wife of that Simon, who appears later, for a moment, in the praiseful salutations of Paul, as the parent of Christian sons, she reverently100 called by the great apostle mother, was among the women that were most sorrowful and nearest the dying Saviour101. Then there were Mary, the mother of James, Salome, Mary Magdalene, and possibly Claudia the wife of Pilate—that brave woman who advocated Christ’s cause before the proud, implacable Sanhedrim, the howling mob and Imperial Rome’s representatives. What fitting mourners in that touching102, yet august funeral march!
“Women are fully103 capable by nature, through their finest, tenderest chords, ever responsive in woe104, to express the whole of grief, however deep! The sex which loves most, loves longest, mourns most easily as well as most sincerely, and has made sorrow sacred by the lavish105 bestowals of it, whene’er its founts were touched.
“There is an holy, perfumed anointing in their tears. This crucifixion-time was woman’s hour supremely106. Mary with magnificent self-possession, heart-broken, yet strong in faith; weeping in eye and soul, but intruding[432] no wild howlings amid those who wept for custom’s sake; tearful, yet retiring in her grief, here passes before our minds at once the most fascinating, winsome107, yet pity-begetting woman known to man.”
“Father,” cried Miriamne, restraining but little her own tears: “Are you listening?”
“Yes, yes; oh, yes. The glory of Eden’s noon has fallen on the tongue and brain of Rhodes, and yet I cannot gainsay108 him; nor would I try to dispel109 his wise and honored sayings. I can only wonder and wonder how it is that woman rises at the very front when any grand advance is made.”
“Good Rhodes, go on,” spoke Miriamne.
B. Plockhorst.
MARY AND ST. JOHN.
“I’m easily persuaded, for there is something of a savory110 sweetness to this grief—welcome mother of true penitence111, that comes over souls, who, in imagination, follow the steps to the cross. I’ve heard that Mary followed her son from the Judgment Hall to Calvary. He moved at slow pace, and well He might; worn by months of toil112 for needy113 humanity; by watchings, teachings and the like; until now ready to drop down under the thorn-crown, the scourging114 and the cross. But the blessed Virgin, still a woman, still a mother, faltered115 by the way. Sometimes she hid her eyes from the scourging, sometimes she was pushed aside by those who knew her not, or those who knowing hated her because of her goodness. Tradition tells us she fainted several times overcome by the terrors of that sad journey through the valley. She had small strength to witness the climax116 of brutality when cruel hands drove the awful nails into that One she loved! The history of that dread hour has often wrung117 tears from stout118 hearts; and he who understands[433] in any degree a mother’s heart, easily believes that she was absent when the mob raised the victim on His cross. But, mother-like, nothing could keep her from the final parting, which death brought to her and her son.
“Sorrow sharpens the language of love to a deep expressiveness119; when the end was approaching, Mary and John stood side by side and near to the One, who, to them, was dearer than all. I have heard, and I believe that a sign from the Christ had hurried John away, just before His death, to bring mother to the heart that was yearning80 not more to give than to receive, the comforts that both needed, the assurance of undying affection. The man on the cross, stripped of all earthly except His flesh, even robbed of the tunic120 that Mary had made, and for which the men of war gambled, as war has often gambled for the patrimony121 of the King of Men, had little or nothing of earth to give, other than His rights in the hearts of mother and John.
“These were His farewell keepsakes to each. It needs no strained imagination to fathom122 His heart, for He opened it all in His dying cry, ‘My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken123 me?’ This was not as the cry of a victor, but that of a broken heart; not as a strong man, but typical humanity, alone, facing death as a child. The language He used then was not that usually His, it was the language of His childhood. In every syllable124 of that cry, one may read, I fear that God, even God, has forsaken me; but mother, my own loved mother! mother, mother, oh, my dying, human heart, leans as a babe on thy bosom27!’”
“Here, here!” cried Sir Charleroy. “Quick! Take this cross of a Teutonic Knight of St. Mary; bury it[434] when I’m gone by her grave in Gethsemane! I have praised myself as her champion, and son, and devotee. Heavens! I’m abashed125 by thy splendid revelation! I never have even dreamed of her glorious worth!”
“Father, my father, be calm, be calm—calm for my sake; you fright me when you so give way. Remember, we’re at the place where a wrong past ends at the right beginning.”
“Thou art my good angel, Miriamne; but, oh, it’s twice sad! I’ve been a madman half my life and a player in a farce126 the other half!”
“Be calm, Sir Knight, and look into the wonders of this place. Christ’s coming to earth to pardon its errings, right its wrongs, and hang unfading victory crowns on all futures127. Listen: There was night when that King died, and the dead arose and went about the city, attesting128 the eternal fact that He was Ruler of all worlds. And it was the Feast of the New Moon at Jerusalem; the Feast of Venus at Rome; of Khem in Egypt; but the crescent was hidden.”
“I see, I see, Rhodes; Mary and Mary’s son were to come forth; all others eclipsed!”
“It is attested by history that there was black darkness about the Sun Temple at Heliopolis as Christ was bidding His mother and earth Death’s good-night. The Egyptian city of Osiris, by miracle, witnessed of the great event at Calvary. Some there were prompted to say: ‘Either the world is coming to an end, or the god of nature suffers.’”
“And Mary, wise and erudite, Rhodes? Tell us more of her.”
“‘It is finished!’ cried her son, and she passed from the grief of those who agonize129 amid somber,[435] monster pangs130 impending131, into that quiet, subdued132, ripening133 sadness that comes over those who have learned to say: ‘Thy will be done.’ At Cana’s feast her Beloved told her: ‘Mine hour has not yet come.’ Now, she knew the meaning of the mystic words, and saw His hour, with all its mighty134 imports, at last marked in full; all the prophecies gathered as into a full-orbed sun; the cross rose like a dial, mountains high, the shadows on it telling eternity’s time! Mary, the singer of the ‘Magnificat,’ her imagination fired, her vision inspired, as she stood by that interpreting, ghastly symbol, could see the course of the sacred past emerging into meaning. Eve leading; the wealth of her bloom no longer sacrificed to primeval, Astarte-like intoxications; the wings of the real tree of life above her; the serpent crushed beneath her heel. Then, following, Noah, the man of the ark, symbol of sheltering covenants135 between God and man, covenants ever circled by bows of hope, ever surmounted136 by dove-like peace. After these Abraham, with his typical lamb, followed by a countless137 multitude of priests, laying down at the cross, as they passed, their temple-pattern, the symbols of its service realized and ellipsed! After these, Moses, the law-giver, with face serene138 at law’s fulfillment, in company with flaming prophets innumerable, all rejoicing in visions realized. Behind all followed Captivity139 and Hades, Christ’s grandest trophies140, forever in chains! Teutonic Knight of St. Mary, thy queen saw all these, and as they passed there rose to her view the White Kingdom of David. Now, stand here where she stood; surrender mind and heart to the Spirit and Word, then thou shalt behold the radiant procession, the coming glory!”
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The Hospitaler ceased. Then softly, meanwhile waving his hand as if entreating141, Sir Charleroy spoke:
“Rhodes, wait a little; don’t say any more now. I want to watch that procession. It seems to me I see it. Oh, wonderful, all wonderful!”
“He shall be called Wonderful.”
There was a long, long pause, broken gently by Miriamne, who, after a while, said:
“We’d better return to the city; the day is very hot, and I’m—” She could say no more.
Silently Sir Charleroy complied; silently all three journeyed to their abodes142. The Hospitaler was content with his effort to proclaim the truths of Calvary, and Miriamne was glad to leave her father to the full benefit of his sacred, all-engrossing thoughts. Miriamne, in heart, was enraptured143 by her thoughts of the mother of Jesus.
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