New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-25
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Christ no Writer.

One Of the most remarkable facts in the history o.
Christ is that he left no writings behind him and the
only record Of his writing anything is in the case
where be down and WIN es n Igsbb eTe
ODE knows /; though perhaps the most plausible con
lecture is that he wrote the answer TO the question
whether the woman taken in the act Of the aduioefy
should be stoned He that i rli aos. sn a ths
strange fact ever occur to you, that the greatest re-
Sarner that ever the divine teacher
sent or God to reveal his truth to the word-whose
teachings now ne n h; ,ae
world and who Is claimed as the author and
finisher 81 great system Of faith and
yet behind him sentence OF his writing, and those
unknown characters written with his finger In the
sand, constitute the Sum total OF his writings, OF
which there is any account
Il there, or has there ever been, since the inven
ton OF letters or even rude hieroglyphcs any such
thing Is 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 Pouranas,
their Ramayan and their laws and institutes OF Menu,
and these are all written and preserved with the Mt
most care. The Chinese have their hooks Of Fohi,
their founder opened and exp0unded by their great
Confrcius. The Persians have their zendevesta, at
trbnted to their leader, Zoroaster containing the
doctrine and laws Of their religion The jews have
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 Demosthenes,
wrote much. Mahomet wrote the Koran and gave it
TO the faithful as their guide The writings of Swe
denborg are voluminous and in our day even the
Mormon imposter wrote his books of Mormon. But
here comes one who claims precedence even to Moses
and Abraham. and especially claims that greater
than Solomon is in his own person, aud announcing
himself as q herald of d new dspensaton from Cod
which is to cast Moses and the prophets in the shade
and prevail all other systems and subdue our en-
tire 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 he was an impostor Did ever
an imposter pursue 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,
md that it can stand upon its own merits.
50 confident is he Of his power, that he is content
70 breathe it upon Gods air, and leave it to live by
its inherent or sefperpetuating Immortality or live
mot at oil. And so he goes about doing good now
teaching in the synagogue and temple, now talking
to his disciples as he sits Oliyet or by the sea
of Galilee, and now dropping word as he walks by
the way. And there is not manifested the slightest
writes it not on stone or parchment nay, he writes
it not at ALL He seeks 6ny to give it Judgement in
the hearts Of the disciples that followed him make
them comprehend it and feel its power, aud love it
and is willing to leave it there to produce its fruits,
and to be written by the hand Of Affection if it should
be written at all. And those hearts he did impress
himself and they for the love they bore him, wrote
the meagre sketch we have Of his life and teachings.
(Rey.J. d. Williamson.