The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-24


him They trumpet las greatness con
tnu5lly Tue men cyalt him H.,
women reverence him love him
fondle him. One woman, at least, tries
her powers upon him, boastiug that
she is ANXIOUS 10 prove she can preserve
her purity, and fell, he with
her.
Then Tilton, vain man this, or We
are an inexpcrt reader of character.
His hair is worn long, in ringlets,
parted in the middle, because flattcr-
ing friends have told HIM he looks like
| Christ. This vain conccit he carries
so far NJ TO sit to au artist %ho is
painting an original picture of the
Saviour. The concot affects his mind.
Being Christ.Iikc in person, he believes
himself to be Christ-likc in mind
meek, humble aud iorgiying. He
learns of his wic's ialthlessnCss, OF
lil model minister y fall-his friend +
treachery. lie attempts to carry out
the illusion Of his mind--that he is
like Christ, the mcckc't the most for
giving Of mortals. He does not muir
der his wiIc-he docs not slay his false
friend. Christ would not have done
so: md ho d,d not, ,hcrcIOre, DO 80.
Christ would have forgiven, and Tilton
therefore forgavc. He condoncd his
wiio's oGcnso he met his false friend
afterwards as true friend. Having
| been smitten upon one check he turned
the other also. Christ-likc, you SEQ.
But there are an untold number of
crcyices in the human heart through
which the most momentous Of secrets
cscapc-secrcts which thus freed, are
mysterlously blown by the winds of ru-
NOR everywhere. TiIton's secret thus es
capped and thus was blown about; and,
strange fatality the wronged mantle
maudlin sentimentalist- the imitator
Of Christ, was blamed and traduced
while his false friend was piticd, apol-
! ogized for and called the most mag.
unanimous Of men. Tho worshippors
OF the preacher closed around him in
defense, and womcn--tco often weak
and dependent beings that our false
education has made them the defend
crs of lust cloakcd by priestly gowr
raised their piping voices singing
songs Of praise to their spiritual guide
aud ilmging anathemaS at the wronged
man who had been doubiy deceived
IT Tilton had killed Bcccher like 1
dog, up would have gone shouts of APP
plausc from the church aud from tn,
world-thc male followers of Chris
would have justified him, and the ic
male followers would have adored him
but following the delusion that he was
! hko Chri1t, IN u Christ-like manner he
forgavc his false wiio's crime, his false
friends treachery; and the pro
iessed followers Of the Saviour
who would have justified the
old doctrine ofrcycngo by him who i:
injured ,hooted the man who in saying
"Ncngcancc is mine; go and sin No
more T. forgays those who had trcss.
passed against him most sricyously-
hootcd him, and are now calling hin
accurscd.
This scandal is strange common
tary on Christianity aud human weak
ness. 1t teaches, that even the mos
exalted are not strong when tempted
that the prcccpts Of Christianity arr
beautiful in the abstract, but the prac
ticc of them dangerous to mani y rcpu
tation; that the Ter tdl,opiS is still tn,
law of the human heart, and tina
society holds him to be Il dog VIII,
docs not STAY the deflor Of his mar
riage couch. 1t il yet true, tina
"when dishonor seeks our hearth Law
! dies and Murder takes the angel shap,
! 81 Irg,igo 90