The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-02-21
THIS WORLD IS STILL UNDER THE pr.
VINE EYE.

and with his finger writing on the
ground; in the winter In letters of
crystals, In the spring In letters of
flowers, III summer in golden letters of
harvest, in autumn in letters of fire on
fallen leaves. How it would sweeten
ap and enrich and emblazon this
world could we see Christ's caliQraphy
all ovor it. This world was not flung
out into gpaoe thousands OF years ago
and then left to look out for itself. 1t
is stili under the divine care.
Christ never for half second
takes bis hand off of it, or
It would soon be shipwrecked
world, a defunct world, an obsolete
world, an abandoned world, decd
world. "Let there be light was said
at TIC beginning. And Christ stands
under the wintry skies and says, Let
there be snowflakes to enrich the
earth; and under the clouds of spring
and says, Come ye blossoms and make
redolcnt the orchards; and in Septem-
Der, dips the branches into the vat OF
beautiful colors and swings them in
tho hazy air. No whim Of mine is
this. Without him was not any
thing made that was made" Christ
writing Oh the ground Ii we could
see his hand In all the passing
seasorA how It would iIlumine
tho woYldi All verture and foliage
would be allegoriG, and again we
would hear him say as OF old, Con
slider ths iilies of the field, how they
grow and we would not hear the
whistle of quail or the cawing OF a
raven or the reundelay OF brown
thresher, without saying, behold
the fowls OF the air, they gather not
into barns, yet your Heavenly Father
feedetk thom;" and Dominic hen of
the barnyafd could not cluck for her
brood, yot we would hear Christ say
ing as of old, ''How often would I
have gathered thy children together,
evon as hon gathered her chickens
under her wings" and through tho
Fedolent hedges we would hear Christ
saying, Il an the rose of Sharon"
we could not dip the seasoning from
the salt csllar without thinking of
the divine suggestion, "Ye are the
salt Of tho earth, but il the salt
have lost its SAVIOR, it is fit for nothing
but to be cast out and trodden under
foot OF men," Let US wake up
from our stupidity and take the whole
world as q parable. Then if with gun
and pack OF hounds we start Off before
dawn and SEQ the morning coming
down off the hills to meet us, we
would cry out with tho evangelist,
1.-THE day spring from on high hath
visited u.s. on caught in snow storm,
while struggling home, eyebrows and
beard and apparel all covered with
tie whirling tlukes, we would cry out
with David, Wash me and shall
DO whittier than snow" In picture
gallery of Europe, there is on the cell
ing an exquisite frcsco, but people
having to look straight up, it wearied
and dizzied them, and bent their
necks almost beyond endurance, SO
great looking glass was put
near the floor and now visitors only
need to hook easily down into this mir
ror and they sec the frcsco at their
feet, And SO much OF all the heaven
OF Gods truth 10 reEcsted in this world
as ia IL Inirrof, sliS tic things that are
above arc copied by ..iings all around
us. What right havo we To throw
away one OF Goda Bibles, aye, the
| first Bible he ever gave the racc2 We
! talk about the Old Testament and the
New Testament. but the Oldest Testa-
ment contains the lessons Of the nat
ural wcrld. Some people like the.
| New Testament So well they discard
! the Old Testament Shall we like the
! New Testament and the Old Testa-
ment SO well rs to deprcciatc the old
est; namely, that which WAS written
before Moses was put atloat On the
boat OF leaves which was c;tll;ed with
asphalttlm; or relccl ti!c Genesis and
tho Revelation that were written ccii-
tuiies before adam lost u rib and
gained Il Wi.e. 70, no; when Deity.
stoops down and writes on tno ,truuild.
let us read it, | would have no
less appreciatiou oi the Bible on lr;l;.y,.
that comes cut of the Taper mill, but l
would urge appreciation OF the Bible
! IN tho grass, tho Bibio in the sand hill.
the Eible ia the gor;,liiuln, the Bible
III the aSpfodel. f!.e Giolc i'll tac dust
Some ono asked 81, ancient king
sun. no. said he, 4 liayo SO mucA
10 do on colth, ! lx:sve no timo to loo,>
ut hcavou" And il our faculties we.',,
ah awake il tie study of God, wo
would iot have ti:no 10 So rlIcli fur.
ther than the l'rst sras, biatA0. have
no fear that natural rcliyion wiil over
contradict what we call revealed re-
iigion. | have 10 sympathy with the
followers cf Aristotle, WHO after the
telescope was invented. would not
look through it, lest it contradict senle
Of the theories of thoir great sinrster.
shall be glad to put aT,.inst ono lid
Of the Biblo the microscope. ;Ia.
against the other lid of the Bible the
telescope.
THE WORDS CHRIST WROTE: "HYPou
RlsY AND FORGIVENESS.
But when Christ stopped down an(
wrote on the ground, what did h'
write2 The Pharisees did not stop Il
examine. The towards, whipped o
their own consciences, fled pell nell
Nothing will fay a man like an aroused
conscience. DR.. Stevens, in his Ills
tory of Methodism," says that wheI
Rev. Benjamin Abbott Of Older
times was preaching, he exclaimed
"For aught know there may be |
murderer in this house." and a maj
rose in the assemblage and started 70
the door and bawled aloud, confessint
ton murder he had committed hfteel
wears before. And no wonder thes
Pharisees, reminded of their sins, too
, their heels. But what did Christ writ
On the croundl Tho Bible docs nc
state. Yet, rs Christ never wrot
; ANYTHING except that once, yo
? cannot blame US for wanting to knoN
: what he really cid wsite. But ] al
: certain he wrote nothing trivial, G
, ! nothing unimpoltant And will yo
} s,low me to say that think ] kno'
: what he wrote on the groundl Jud2
, from the circumstances. lie migt
| havo written other things, but knee
ing there in the temple, surrounde
n by = pack Of htpocrites, who were
n sc.i appointed coiistabulary, and ha'
N ing in his prcseucr u prosecuted w
!, m-a, who evidently was very pen
n tcat for her sins, ! am sure he wro
! two words, both Of them graphic an
i tremendous and ,cvel1erating. An
a tao ono word was Hypocrisy and Il
= o;hor word WIS forgiveness Fro
j. tho way these Pharisees III
!, scrilcs vacated tim premises al
!, rot out into tho fresh air, as Chris
- With i,sst ono ironical sentenc
- u,.n;tskcd them, ! know they we
= iirst class hypocrites. IL was then
=, II now. Tho more faults and inco
- sistencirs people have OF their ow
~ file more severe and censorious a
- they :.baut tie faults OF others. He
Z, tLey twenty stout men 0restii
n and arraigning one weak woma
"a Magnificent business 10 be engaged
" " Ihoy wanted tho fun Of seeing b
,e m faint away undor q heavy judicial Sc
n tencc from Christ, aud then after s.
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