Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02


for her Gins, | Am sure he wrote two
words, both OF them graphic and tire
mendous and reverbcrating. And the one
word was Hypocrisy and the other word
was Forgiveness. From the way these
Pharisees and scribes vacated the prem
ises and pot out into the fresh air, as
Christ, with Just one ironical sentence,
unmasked them, | know they were
first class hypocrites. 1t was then as
it is now. The mere faults and incon-
aistencies people have OF their own.
the more severe and censorious are they
about the faults of others. Here they
are-twenty stout men arresting and
arraicning one weak woman. Magnificent
business to be engaged in. They wanted
the fun Of seeing her faint away under a
heavy judicial sentence from Christ, and
then after she had been taken outside the
city and fastened at the foot OF a preci.
pice, the Scribes and Pharisees wanted
the satisfaction Of each coming ana drop.
| ping a big stone on her head, for that
was the style of capital punishment that
they asked for. Some people have taken
the responsibility OF say wing that Christ
never laughed. But | think as he saw
those men drop everything, chagrined
| hlOl linSb, CADpstb, hhh 50 pub 1HiShti
than they came in, he must have laughed.
At any rate it makes me laugh to read II.
All Of these hbertines, dramatizlng indig-
nation against impurity. Blind bats lee
turing on optics. A flock Of crows on
their way up from a carcass, d%cnouucing
carrion. Yes, | think that one word
written on the ground that day by the
finger Of Christ wa the awful word Hy-
pnoriuxr Rrf an, cprn thnrn NUal an
| othor word in that dust. From her entire
manner | am sure that arraigned woman
was "repcntant. Sac made no apology,
and Christ in no wise belittled her sin.
But her supplicatory behavior and her
tears moved him, and when he stopped
down to write on the ground, he wrote
that mighty, that imperial word Forgive
ness. When on SINAI God wrote the law,
he wrote il with finger OF lightning or
tables Of stone, each word cut as by a
chisel into the hard granite surface. But
when he writes the ofTense Of this woman
he writes ii in dust SO that ii can be easily
rubbed out, and when she repents of il.
oh, he WAS u mcrcifui Christ! | was
reading Of a legend that is told in the far
east about him. He was walking through
the streets Of a city and he saw a crowd
around a dead dog, And one man said:
What a lOathsome object is tina; dogP'
Yes" eaid another, "his ears are mauIed
and bleeding" Yes" eaid another,
even his hide would not be of any use
to the tanner Yes" said another,
"the odOr Of lis carcass is dreadful
Then Christ, standing there, said: But
pearls cannot equal the wilderness OF his
teeth" Then The people. moved by the
idea hat any one could find anything
pleasant concerning a dead dog, said:
why, this must be Jesus Of Nazareth
Reproycd and convicted they went away.
Surely this legend Of Christ 10 good
enough TO be true. Kindness in all His
words and ways and habits. Forgive
ness. Word Of eleven l%ettere, and some
Of them thrones. and some Of them palm
branches. Better have Christ write close
to u names that Ons word, though lie
write j. in dust. than ts have our name
cut into monuments. granite with the let
ters that the storms OF a thousand years
cannot obliterate. Bishop Darlington
had q book Of only three leaves. The
first leaf was black, the second leaf red.
the third leaf white. The black leaf sug-
gested sin; the red leaf atonement; the
white lcaf publication. This ia the whole
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