THE DEAD CHRIST.

The last expiring groan was hushed; the beaming eye was closed--it

wept no longer over the sins of a perverse race. Those gentle and

lovely features were robed with the pallid hue of death, and the heart

that melted at the sorrows of mankind beat no longer. The grave, the

cold grave, rejoicingly closed its dreary portals upon his sacred

form; and he, the lowly and despised Nazarene, who found no resting-

place

for his weary head, slept quietly in a borrowed sepulchre.

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