Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
nlsT's WRITING.

THE DUST THE WORDS
ock,sY AND FORGIVENESS.
still, Under the Divine Eye
tile treatment of tho Erring
IAN illustration of the Worlds
70 preached Sunday morn
NJ lns BsSTooklyn Tabernacle on the e
J., Iii 6: Jesus stopped down and
'ns nedan mosque stands now
paln'u food Herod's temple. the
nee nv text. solomon's temple
Pl m .hare. but Nebuchadnezzar
GA :. .n lown. Zorobabels temple
|ea more, !, but that had beenpros-
pa Nv we take our places in a
S stS Herod built because he was
n ra, architecture and he wanted
sf n;no temples to seem insignifi-
ea'n n;sht or ten modern cathe-
u. .e ea5 and they would not equal
gem. .,rs It covered nineteen
E msars we're marble pillars sup
hefs Of cedar and silver tables
!, fo food golden cups. and there
ssUs exquisite and inscriptions
,', entering balustrades and
a ,tr Getaways: The building of
p' ,s kept 10000 workmen busy
PIE cars asi In that stupendous
nomn and magnificence sat
pg1Np listening throng stood
~: aNT when wild disturbance took
','' .roup of men are pulling and
long \ woman who had COM
,be worst crime against
y When they have brought
front of Christ, they
he sentence her to death by
They are critical, merciless,
mons crowd. They want to get
moe rto controversy and public rep
o NV If He say Let her die"
i charge Him with cruelty. If
hsT 90, they will charge Him
mo mo- in completely with wicked
Whichever way He does, they
howl NV at Him. Then occurs a
rhicb has not been sufficiently
N He leaves the lounge or
IN which He was sitting and goes
n one knee, or both knees, and
forefinger of His right hand
bins to write in the dust of the
Ford after word. But they were
,e diverted or hindered. They
demanding that He settle this
trapssression until He looked
told them that they might them
begin the woman's assassination,
complainant who had never done
no wrong himself would open the
Go ahead, but be sure that the
no filings the first missile is I'M
te." Then He resumed writing
is finger in the dust of the floor,
liter word. Instead of looking
is shoulder to see what He had
the scoundrels skulked away.
+, the whole place is clear of pur-
antagonists, and plaintiffs, and
Christ has finished this strange
raphy in the dust, He looks up
nds the woman all alone. The
er is the only one of the court
left. the judges, the police, the
uting attorneys having cleared
Christ is victor, and He says to
pman: Where are the prosecutors
case? Are they all gone? Then
barge you; go and sin no more"
re always wondered what Christ
on the ground. For do you re-
hal is the only time that He ever
ht all? know that Eusebius says
hrist once wrote a letter to Alb
the King of Odessa, but there is
d evidence of such correspond
The wisest being the world ever
d the one who had more to say
my one who ever lived, never
a book or chapter, or a page or
graph. or word or parchment.
bg but this literature of the dust,
be sweep of a brush or one breath
wind obliterated that forever.
all the rolls of the volumes OF
st library founded at Thebes there
t one scroll of Christ. Among
zen hundred thousand books OF
exandrian library, which by the
pus decree Of Caliph Omar were
S fuel to heat the four thousand
Of the city, not one sentence had
penned. Among all the infini-
! volumes now standing in the
les Of Edinburgh, the British mu.
OR Berlin, or Vienna, or the
ID repositories of all nations, not
ora written directly by the finger
flst. All that he ever wrote he
IN dust, uncertain, shifting, van.
dust
text says he stopped down an6
on the ground. Standing straight
man might write on the ground
staff. but if with his fingers hi
write in the dust, he must benG
Pyer' Aye, he must get at leas
Knee or he cannot write on tn.
=; BE not surprised that HI
% down. His whole life was I,
ing down. STOPPING down from
70 barn. STOPPING down from
III homage to mobocratic jeer
residence above the stars to wher'
nad fallen to designate His land
ace: From heavens front door t,
Pfla back gate. From writing il
ana sllvered letters of constel
ana galaxy on the blue scroll O
10 writing on the ground in tn,
S1leh the feet of the crowd hat
Herod's temple. If in Januar,
we ever stepped out Of prince
Satory that had Mexican cactul
Pagnolias in full bloom, into tn,
ar ~ dogs. below zero, you mo,
me idea of Christ's change O
mere from the celestial to tn,
.ai. How many heavens Their
now not, but there are at leas
ior raul was caught up into tn,
ueaVen." Christ came down iron
heaven to the second heaven
ON second heaven to first heaven
sMl1ter than meteors ever fell
a a1t stellar splendors that Him
th'ipsed, down through. clouds