Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-18
All He Ever Wrote Was Written
in Dust ON the Temple Floor.
What it Was the Bible Does Not Say-A
Legend Good Enough to be True.
Our Lost Literature.
The Awful Doom Awaiting Hypocrisy and the
Full and Complete Forgiveness for
ReDentant Sinners.
Special to the Gazette.

BRoOKLYN, y. y, Feb. Il DR.. TAI
mage preached this morning in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle on the subject,
"The Literature of the Dust After
explaining appropriate passages of scrip
ture concerning Christ he gave out the
hymn:
oh, could I speak the matchless worth,
Oh could sound the glories forth
Which in my Savior shine.
Text; John viii. 6: Jesus stopped
down and wrote on the ground. -
A Mohammedan mosque stands now
where once stood Herod Is temple, the
scene of my text. Solomon IS temple had
stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar thun-
dered it down. Zorobabel $ temple had
stood there, but that had been pros
trated. Now we take our places in
temple that Herod built because he was
fond of great architecture and he wanted
the preceding temples TO seem insignifi-
cant. Put eight or ten modern
cathedrals together and they would
not equal that structure It COW
cred nineteen acres. There were
marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar
and silver tables on which stood golden
cups, and there were carvings exquisite
ana inscriptions resplendent, glittering
balustrades and ornamented gateways
The building of this temple kept 10 OC0
workmen busy forty-six years. In that
stupendous pile of pomp and magnifeence
sat Christ, and listening throng stood
about Him, when wild disturbance took
place. A group of men are pulling and
pushing along a woman who had com
mitted the worst crime against society.
When they have brought her in front of
ChpicT tl,nvr o-I- hoE IL h 10
death by stoning. They are a critical,
nierciless, disingenious crowd. They
want TO get Christ into controversy and
public apprehension. If He say Let her
die. - they will charge Him with cruelty
If He let her go, they viii charge Him
with being 10 completely with wicked
ness. Whichever way he does
THEY WOULD HOWL At HIM.
Then occurs scene which has not
been sufficiently regarded. He leaves the
fOunge or bench on which he was sitting
and goes down on one knee, or both
knees, and with the forefnger of his
right hand he begins to write in the dust
of the floor, word after word. But
they were not to be diverted or hindered.
They kept on demanding that he settle
this case of t"ansgression until he looked
up and told them that they might them
selves begin the woman 5 assassination,
IL the complainant who had never done
anything wrong himself would open the
fire. eco ahead but be sure that the man
who tiings the first missile is immacu-
late. - Then he resumed writing with
his finger in the dust OF the floor word
after word. Instead of looking over his
EhOuldeF to see what ne had written the
BcOundrelS siIulked away. Finally, the
whole place is clear of pursuers, antago-
nists and plaintiffs, and when Christ has
finished this strange chirography in the
dust, he looks up and finds the woman all
alone. The prisoner is the only one of
the court room left, the judges, the po-
lice. the prosecuting attorneys having
cleared out. Christ is victor, and he
says to the woman: "'Where are the
prosecutors of this case? Are they all
gomez Then ] discharge you;
GO AND SIN no MORE. -
l have always wondered what Christ
wrote on the ground For do you real
ize that is the only time that he ever
Wrote st all? / know that Eusebius says
that Christ once wrote a letter to Abga-
rus, the king of EdeSsa, but there is no
good evidence of such a correspondence. /
The wisest being the world ever saw and
the one who had more TO say than any
one who ever lived, never writing book
or 9 chapter, or page or Il paragraph,
CT word on parchment. Nothing but |
this literature Of the dust, and enc sweep |
OF brush or one breath of wind oblit- |
Grated that forever, Among all the rolls /
of the volumes of the first library
founded at The1es there was not one |
scroll of Christ Among the 700 600 |
books of the AleXandrian library, which, |
by the infamous decree of Caliph Omar,
were used as fuel TO heat the 1000 baths /
of the city, not one sentence had Christ /
penned. Among all the infnitude of /
volumes now standing in the libraries of |
Edinburg, the British museum, or Berlin |
or Vienna, or the learned repositories OF |
all nations, not one word written directly !
by the finger of Christ. Al that he ever |
wrote he wrote in dust, uncertain, /
shifting,
VANISHING DUST.
Ny text says he stopped down and I
wrote on the ground Standing straight |
up man might write on the ground |
with q staff, but if with his fingers he /
would write in the dust, he must bend /
clear over. Aye, he must get at least on
one knee or he cannot write on the /
ground. Be not surprised that he stopped /
down His whole life was a STOPPING +
down STOPPING down from castle TO
barn. STOPPING down from celestial /
homage to mObocratic jeer. From resi- !
dence above the stars TO where & star had |
10 fall to designate his landing place. /
From heaven 5 front door to the world s
back gate. From writing in round and |
silyered letters Of constellation and gall |
axy on the blue scroll of heaven, 10 writ
ing on the ground III the dust, which the |
feet of the crowd had left in HeTod 5
temple. If in January you have ever
stepped out Of a prince 5 conservatory
that had Mexican cactus and magnolias
in full bloom, INTO the outside air 10 deg.
below zero, you may get some idea of
Chris 5 change of atmosphere from
celestial to terrestrial How many
heavens there are I know not, but there
are at least three, for Paul was caught
up into the third heaven. -
Christ came down from highest heaven
10 the second heaven and down from
second heaven 10 first heaven, down
swifter than meteors ever fell, down !
amidst stellar splendors that himself
eelipsed,
DOWN THROUGH CLOUDS,