Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-03-26
CHRIST NO WRITER.

One of the most remarkable facts in the
history of Christ is, that he left no writings
behind him, and the only record there is Of
his writing anything is in the case where 'he
stopped down and with his finger wrote upon
the ground" What he wrote then and
there no one knows; though perhaps the
most plausible conjecture is that he wrote
the answer to the question, whether the
woman taken in the act of adultery should
be stoned? "He that is without sin among
you, let him cast stone at her." Hearer,
did this strange fact ever occur to you, that
the greatest reformer that ever lived-pro.
fessedy the divine teacher sent of God to
reveal his truth to the world-whose teach
ings have survived the wreck of ages, and
now command the credence, the respect and
the most profound admiration of the enlight-
ened world, and who is claimed as the 'sau-
thor and fnisher" of great system Of faith
and practice; has left behind him no sentence
of his writing, and those unknown charac-
ters written with his finger in the sand con-
stitute the sum total of all his writings of
which there is any account?
Is there, or has there ever been, since the
invention of letters, or ever rude hieroglyph-
les, any such thing as system of religion,
whose founder did not take special pains to
reduce his teachings to writing, and thus
give them the most exact and permanent
form?
The Brahmins have their Vedas, their Pou-
ranas, their Ramayan, and their laws and in
sttutes of Menu, and these are all written
and preserved with the utmost care. The
Chinese have their hooks of Fohi, their
founder, as opened and expounded by their
great Confucius. The Persians have their
Zendevesta, attributed to their leader, Zorro
aster, containing the doctrine and laws Of
their religion. The Jews had their sacred
books; and Moses and the prophets, and
David, and Solomon, put their teachings in
writing, that they might be preserved
Plato and Pythagoras, and Cicero and De-
mosthenes, wrote much Mahomet wrote
the Koran, and gave it to the faithful as
their guide. The writings of Swedenborg
are voluminous; and in our day, even the
Mormon impostor wrote his books of Nor
mon. But here comes one who claims pre-
cedence even to Moses and Abraham, and
especially claims that a greater. than Solomon
is in his own person, and announcing him
self as herald of new dispensation from
God; which is to cast Moses and the prophets
in the shade, and prevail over all other sys-
TENS, and subdue our entire race, and yet
this great teacher wrote never word, save
only the characters in the sand, which the
next breath of wind might obliterate. Who
can account for this procedure ? Will it
comport at all with the idea that be was an
impostor? Did ever an impostor pursue a
course like this? Never. And it seems to
us that in the single fact to which We have
alluded, there is the impress of truth, and
proof that his mission is all divine. He
stands out before us as one who knows that
his mission is from God, and that it can
stand upon its own merits! So confident is
he of its power, that he is content to breathe
it out upon Gods air, and leave it to live by
its own inherent and self-perpetuatipg i'm
mortality, or live not at all. And so hegoes
about doing good, now teaching in the syn.