Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-24
tCousiaued from frst psge.l

Cad will abundantly pardon,
An ILLUSTRATION OF THE WORLDS IN
JUSTICE.
must not forget to say that as
Christ, stopping down, with his finger
wyote on the ground, it is evident that
19B sympathies are with this penitent
woman, and that he has no sympathy
with her hypocritical pursuers. just
opposite TO that is the worlds habit.
Why didn't these unclean Pharisees
hing one of their own number to
Christ for excoriation and capital pun
lament No, no; they overlook that
u q man which they damnate IN IA
woman. And so the world has had
for offending women scourges and OBJ
jWRation, and for just n otfense she
bsuUmes am outcast, while for men
whose lives have been sodomic
Eur twenty years, the world
Wings open its doors Of brill
INIT welcome, and they may sit
in legislatures and senates and parlia-
monts or on thrones. Unlike the
Christ of my text, the world writes a
mans misdemeanor in dust, but chs
eh a woman's offeuse with great capi-
tails upon ineffaceable marble. For
foreign lords and princes, whose names
cannot even be mentioned in respectar
Tie circlas ahroad hacansa they are
Wnlking i~azaruttos OF abomination, our
American princesses of fortune wait
md al the first beck sail out with them
INTO the blackness of darkness forever.
And in what are called higher circles
al society there is now not only the
imitation of foreign dress and foreign
manners, but an imitation of foreign
3issoluteness. i like an English
man and | like an American,
bat the sickest creature or
earth is an Amer can playing the
Ehglishman. Society needs 10 be I've
constructed on this subject Treat
hem alike, mas uline crime and
feminine crime. IL you cut the n
n granite, cut them both in granite.
II you white the one in dust, write the
ether in dust. No, no, says the
world, let womln go down and let
oan go up. What is that | hear
paashing into the East river at mid
night, and then there is a gurgle as Of
arangulation, and all is still. Never
lind. Ii is only a woman too dis
o0uraged to live. Let the mills Of the
9nel world grind right on.
SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRIsT's DUST WRIT
But while l speak Of Christ of the
txt, his STOPPING down writing in the
Inst, do not think l underrate the lit
Osture Of the dust. II is the most
uslemn and tremendous of all litera-
tnse. Ii is the greatest OF all libraries.
When Layard exhumed Nineveh he
Sns only opening the door Of its
mighty dust. The excavations Of
R6mpeii have only been the unclasp-
Ag Of the lids Of a volume of a ma
tnn's dust. When Admiral Farragut
nd his friends, a few years ago, Wis
Odd that resurrected city, the house of
nhlbo, who had been one of its chief
Gkizens in its prosperous days, was
opened and a table was spread in that
house which eighteen hundred and
IN years has been buried by
volcanic eruption, and Farragut
and his guests walked over the
Gquisite mosaics and under the
bsautiful fresco, and it almost
seemed like being entertained by those
Who eighteen centuries ago had turned
10 dust. Oh, this mighty literature of
"a dust. Where are the remains of
0nnnacherib and Attila and Epami-
nnndas and Tamerlane and Trojan
I'D Philip of Macedon and julius
0Aesari Dusti Where are the heroes
who fought on both sides at Cicero
-, at Hastings, at Marathon, at
Qkessy, OF the ITO, 600 men who fought
q Agincourt, of the 25O, 600 men who
Aoed death at Jena, Of the 400, 600
~lsose armor glittered in the sun at
Wagram, of the 1000, 600 men under
Darius at Arbella, OF the 2,64l, 900
I'm under Xerxes at Thermopylai
Dostl
Where are the guests who danced
he floors of the Alhambra, or the Per-
inn palaces of Ahasuerus' Dusti
Where are the musicians who played
nd the orators who spoke, and the
ssulptors who chiseled, and the archi-
tects who built in all the centuries ex-
cept our owni Dustl The greatest
library Of the world, that which has
the widest shelves and the longest
aisles and the most multitudinous vol
nmes and the vastest wealth, is the
underground library. II is the royal
kbrary, the continental library, the
hemispheric library, the planetary
library, the library Of the dust.
And all these library cases will
be opened, and all these scrolls
unrolled and all these volumes
~unclasped and as easily as in
your library or mine we take up a
book, blow the dust off Of il, and turn
over lis pages, 30 easily will the Lord
Of the Resurrection pick up out of this
kbrary Of dust every volume Of human
bfe and open il and read it and dis
play il. And the volume will be re
bound, 70 be set in the royal library
of the Kings palace, or in the prison
library of the self destroyed. Oh, this
mighty literature OF the dustl II is
not so wonderful after all that Christ
chose, instead of am inkstand, the inn
questionable sand on the floor Of an
ancient temple, and, instead Of a hard
pen, put forth his forelinger with the
same kind Of nerve, and muscle, and
hone, and flesh, as that which makes
up our own forefnger, and wrote the
swful doom Of hypocrisy and full and
complete forgiveness for repentant