The Red Cloud chief., 1889-02-22

cut into monumental granite wi'h the let.
ters taat the storms Of . thoa~aDd year
can 10; otlstSTaia Bishop bah:nKsco bad
. book o. ONLY three leaves The FIRST ieal
Was black The secoud lea: rvd, the ii RI
leaf white Tee black leaf suggested sin
the red leaf asonem-ns. the white ieai
puri6cafion- That - the who,e stcry
God ~il atundaaiiy pardon.
mist not forget 20 SAY that NJ Christ,
STOPPING down. with His In ger wrote On
the ground. 10 10 evident that His avn.
pathiss are with this pen tent woman.
thai He has no sympathy VIII h~g hypo-
critical pursu>fa Jus; opposite 70 thai 10
th- voTld's habit Why q .da', these IN.
clean fharIsecs bring one % their own
numb.r 20 Chris: for excoriasion and
capital punishment! No. NO; they over.
look that n . man which they Ae In
. woman And 80 the world has had for
Offending women scourges AMI objurSa.
tion. and for just one ofensc she becomes
An outcas', while for men whose lives have
besn sodomic for to ~nty years the world
So inss open Its doors o: brilliant welcome.
ard they may sit IN Legislatures and son.
a'es and Fariiamen;s or On thrones Ia.
like the Christ Of my teXI the word
writes . mans misdem-anur tn dast tut
ch.se!s . woman's oNcusc with grea:
capitals upoa in-fYacrabl- marble. For for.
I Lords and Princes. whose name. can
not even he mentioned In respectable
circles atronl because they are walking
lasarsttos OF atominaiion. our American
pTincesses Of fortune wait. and At the first
teck sail out with them into the blacknsss
ct darkness forever. And in What are
called b CHER circles Of society there h
now not only the imitation Of foreign man.
ners. but an imitation Of foreign disco
lutenssA liz. an Engii.hman and ] like
An American, but the slcksss creature on
earth 10 an American playing the En-.
giishman Society needs to be recon.
s'ructed on this subject Treat them
alike. masculine crime and feminine
crime II you cut tie one in granite. cut
them both in granite. IL YOU write the
one In dust write the other in dust No,
no. JAWS the world; let woman 70 down
and let man go w. What Is that I hear
spiashIng into the East river ~ midnight,
and then there 10 . xarSle as of strsngu-
latiou and all 10 still, Never mind; u 10
only . woman too discouraged to live.
Let the mills OF the cruel world grind
right on.
But while ! speak Of Christ OF the text,
His STOPPING down writing in the dust, do
not think l underrsts the literature of tn,
dust. II IL the most solemn aud trcm-nd.
Gus OF oil iitera ture /, 10 the greatest Of
all libs les When Law ~xhsned
Ninevah he MAS only opening tn. door Of
its mighty dust. The excavations % Pom.
poll have only been the uncia.pinH Of the
lids OF . volume Of . Nations dust. hen
Admiral FaTragut and his friends. . fsw
years ago. visited that rc.urrected city
the house Of Baibo. who had been one Of
its chief citiz.ns in il prosperous dsya
was opened and . table wAs spread In that
house which !. so years had teen buried
by volcanic eruption. and FarrsEut and
his guests walked over the equisit~ mo.
sa.cs and under the beautiful fresco. and
Il almost seemed like being entertained
by those who eighteen centuries ego
had turned TO dust q. this mighty liter.
ature Of the dust! Where are the rename
Of Sennacberib and At,ila and Epaminon.
das and TamcrlAne and Trojan and
Philip Of Nacedon and julius Cesar!
Dust! Where the heroes who fought On
both sides at C~hGronea, ut Hastings. At
Marathon. at Greasy. Of the ITO on men
who fought 1T AHincourt VI the 81. 40
men who faced death At Jena Of tho co. .
600 men whose armor glitt-red in the sun
at Wagram. Of The 1000 % men under
Darius At Arbella, OF tho 2.6si 600 men
under Xerxes at Th%ermopyls. Dust!
Where are the guests Who danced the
floors Of the Aihamhra. or the Persian !
palaces Of Ahasvsru.: Dust! Where
are the musicians who played and
the orators who spoke. and the
sculptors who chiseled, and the architects
who built in all the centuries except our !
own! Dast! The great library Of til.
and the longest aisles and the most multi.
tcdinous volumes and the vassest wealth,
is the underground library. II 10 tho royal
library, the continental library. the h-mis.
phere library, tho planetary library. the
library of the dust And all these library
cases will be opened. and ell these scrolls
unrolled and all these volumes uncIasped
and as easily rs in your library or mine
We take up a book. blow the dust OF IL
and turn over its pages, 90 easily will the
Lord Of the Resurrection pick up out u
this library Of dust every volume Of human
life n open 10 and read it and display IT,
And the volume will b rebound to b set
IN the royal library 81 the self destroyed.
q. this mighty liters,urs Of tn. lust!
10 not 80 wonderful after al. that Christ
those. instead Of an iukstand. the impres.
sand on Ga. floor % an ancient
pie and instead Of . hard pen put
'orth his fore6ng~r with the same Kind Of.
nerve. and muscle. and bona. and A~sb
wrote the awful doom OF hypocrisy
full aud complete forgiveness for re-
~ Mast sinner, even ihe worst
And now ] can believe tass which I read
low that a mother kept burning . candle
n the Wiadov every night for ten years
one night very late . poor saif Of the
',Ee-s entered. The aged woman said 20
'er. 81 down by the fire." and ,hs
said. Why do you keep that
gsi Ia the window" Tue aged woman
aid: That 10 60 light ny wsyvard
when she Tsturna Since she
away ten year. ago my hair kas
Urned ~hife Folks blame me for worry.
ne about her. but you s~e ! sm her mother.
md sometimes. haif . dozen times Q night
open the doa and loo cut inso
he dsrtness and cry: "Llesis.
.ixxisf" But ! moss soi tell yoa
moro abous my trouble for ! guess.
rom the wsy you cry. you have tsostls
nougA 81 yous owa wAy. how enid and
ict you sesm. u. my! can is bs, Yea
90 ars Lime. ny own lost child 1hsnt
tses yoa ere ho0s again" AsA
' hat . sios Of rejoicing there vas 10 sAas I
'ouss that night. And Christ stopped ds.s +,
nd in the ashes If thas hsarth. nov ,
gated mp MT oess BY ~ greet tiaase
ogs than By b JOY Of . rpsnissd hosss.
old. sroes Ne aA@s ilhssosiaG vosAs
Ass He kad vrItssa 0ore tAAs saGhsssa
sodssd ysass " IN tAs dust o< tie y
ssopsA v~orgsv~osss. Avosd J
ssosGA saA high saosgh - 'ss oass
I: eli the armies a Hsassa q