The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-02-20

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merciful Christi was reading OF legend
that Is tod In the far east avvut Him. He
was walking through the streets Of q city
and He saw crowd around dead dog. A "a
one man said What loathsome object Is
that dog" "Yes,p said another 'his ears
are mauled and bleeding.n "Yes" said
another, seven his hide would not be OF any
use TO the tanner.n "Yes," said another,
the odor Of his carcass l. dreadful" Then
Christ standing there, said: "But pearls
can not equa tho whiten ss Of his teeth"
Then the peop'e moved b the idea that any
one could II d any tniDg pieasant coucerl-
lug deal dog said: Why, this must be
Je esu OF Nazareth"
Reprovsd and convicted they went AWAY.
Surely this legend OF Christ is good enou h
TO b true. Kindness In all Hi, words aud
ways and habit. Forgiveness. Word Of
eleven letters, and some OF them thrones,
ani some OF tn in palm branches. Better
have Christ Write close TO our names that
on wsrd though He write in dust than to
have our nanie cut into nonumen al granite
W th the letters that the storms Of u thou
sand years can not OBJ it rate. Bishop
BdDn .ton had book of only three leaves.
lno iHnb lCil was lub bCOOuu iChA
red the third leaf white The black leaf
suggested sin; the red leaf atonemcnt; the
white leaf purihcation. That is the whole
story. ol will abunddnty pard n
must not forget TO say that as Christ,
STOPPING down. with His finger wrote on the
ground, 1t is evident that His symp lthics are
with this psnitent wo nan, and that He has
no sympathy with her hypocrit'cl oursuers.
Just p josite to that Is the wO Ids habit
Why didn't these nce IN Pharl ees bring
one OF their own numUer to Christ for ex-
coriatlon and capital punishment No. mo-;
they overlook thatin man which they dam
nate In woman. Aud % the world has had
for on ndin goinen scIurge' and obiurga-
ton, an lor iuston uff nse she becomes an
UutcdsL while for m N whose lives have been
sodomic for twenty years, the world swings
open It's doors OF br llaut welcome, and th' v
may sit in Legislatures and Sc ates, AMI
Parlian 'nts or on thrones. Unlike the Christ
OF my text, the world writes mans misde-
me uror In du It. but chisels woman's offeI SO
with great cI italS upou incif.lceable rnarb Q.
For foreign lords and princes, whose names
can not be mentioned in respectable circles
abroad. because they are walking lazlretlUs
OF abomination, our primo sses OF fortune
walt and at ths first beck sail out with them
into lhe b,acAness OF darkness forever.
| And IN what are called higher circles oi
society th re is now not only the imita-
tion OF for ign dress and foreign man.
ners, but an imitation Of foreign die
soluteness. like an En- ,lishman and
like an American but the sickest creature
On this earth is an American playing the
| Englishman. SOriety needs 10 be recon-
strucled on this subject. Treat them alike
masculine crime and feminine crime. II you
| cut the one In granite, cut them both In
| granite. II you write the one In dust. write
the other in dust. No. No. says the world,
let woman go down and let man go up.
What Is that hear plashing into the Ead
river at midnight, and then there Is gurgle
as OF sirangulation, and all Is still. Never
mind. 1t is only q woman too discouraged
to live. Let the mills Of the cruel world
grind right on.
But while I speak Of Christ Of the text
His STOPPING down, writing In the dust. do
not think underrate the literature Of the
dust 1t Is the most solemn and tremendous
nf all literature. II Is the greatest OF MI
liLrar es. When Layard exhumed Nine
yah he was only opening the door o.
its mighty dust. The excavations o
Pompoii have o ly been the unolasping o.
the lids OF volume Of u nations dust
When Admiral Farragut and his friends, |
fsw years ago, visited that resurrecIed city
the house OF Balbo, who had been one Of IL
chief citizens In its prosperous days, wa
opened and table was spread In that house
which eighteen hundred years had beef
buried by volcanic eruption. and Faragu
and his guests walked over the *
qui lite mo uics and under the beauti
full fresco, and IL rlmost seemed lik'
being entertained by those who eighteeI
centuries ago had turned 10 dust. o, tn
mighty literature OF the dust Where ar
the remains OF Sennacherb and Attila ant
Epamnondas and Tamerllne and 1rOiaI
and Philip Of Mucedon and julius Caesar
dust! Where are the heroes who fought OF
both sides OF Cheronea at Hastings, u
Marathon, ut Cressy, OF the 10000 mel
who ,ught at Agncourt, OF the 3iO,OO mel
WHO faced death at Jena, OF the 40 ,0D
whose armor glittered In the sun ut Wag
ram, OF the 10 900 90 men under Dariu
at Arbella, OF he Q 62l .0O0 men under Xerxc
ut ThermopyiGi Dust!
Where are the guests who danced th
floors OF the Alhambra, or the Persia
palaces OF Aha .ueruI = Dust Where ar
the musicians who played and tile orator
who spoke aud tine sculptors who chlselec
and the architects who built In all the Gel
turi 5 except our owni Dustl
The greatest library OF the world, tha
which has the wild ST shelves, and I'll
longest aisles. and the most multitudinou
vol mes and the vastest weolth. Is III
underground library. III the royal librar,
the continental library, the hemi pher
library. tie planetary library, the librar
OF the dust. And all these hbrdr
cases will be opened AMI all tucse scrol
unrulled aud all these volumes unclasped
aud as easily us in your library or mine W
take up a b oA, bow the dust on OF H. an
turn over | 8 Iges, so eas. will the Lord =
tue kesurrecLiOn pick OuL VI tnis librar
OF dust e,ery volume OF human life, All
Open II and cad II aud display IT, Aud III
yoiume will b. rebounu, 80 BE- set In III
royal library uf the Kings palace, or In III
p.lsrn library OF the seif-destroy ell. o, thi
Uni h y literature VI tla oustl II Is not s
wo.uerIul alter all that Christ chose, IL
stead Of an inkstand the impressionubl
sand on the floor OF an ancient temple. ant
Instead ora hard pen, put forth his for
uuger with the same kind OF nerN @, All
MUSCLE, aud bone, aud tesi as that whic
makes up our own forenuger, aud wrotc t''
awful doom OF hypocrisy and fuil and cou
pete forgiveness for repentant sinners
eyeu the worst
Add now can believe that which reaf
nUw that mother kept burning n candle
The window every MINT for ten years, ab
One night very late poor wall OF the streN