Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-02-23

American, but the sickest creature ON earth
Is an American playing the Englishman
Society needs 20 bcrcconstructed ON this sub
jcct. Treat them alike, masculine and femi-
nine crime. II you cut the one In granite,
cut them both In granite II you write tho
ono In dust, write tho other In dust. No, moi
says the world, let woman go down and lot
man 60 up. What Is that ! hear plashing
from the great Bridge at midnight, and then
there Is gurgle rs OF strangulation, and all
Is still. Never mindl Il Is only woman too
discouraged TO live. Let thcmillsof tho cruel
world grind right onl
SIGNIFICANCE or cnRIsT's DUST WRITING.
But while speak Of Christ Of the text, his
STOPPING down writing In the dust, do not
think underrate tho literature Of tho dust
II Is the most solemn and tremendous Of all
literature. II Is tho greatest Of all libraries
When I.ayard exhumed Nincvch hc was only
opening the door Of its mighty dust The cx-
cava,ions Of Pompcii have only been the UNI
clasping Of tho lids Of volume Of nations
dust When Admiral FarTagut and his
friends, few years ago. visited that rcs,ir-
rcctcd city, the houc Of Dalbo, who had bccn
ono Of its chief citizcns In Its prosperous days,
was opened, and table was spread la that
house which eighteen hundred and ten years
has been buried by volcanic eruption, aud
Farragut and his guests walked over tho ex-
quiitc moSaics and under tho beautiful
frcsco, and II almost seemed like being enter
tanned by those who eighteen centuries ago
had turned to dust. Oh, this mighty litcra-
turc Of the dust. Where arc the remains Of
Scnnachcrib and Attila and Elaminondas
and Tanerlanc and Trojan and Philip Of
Macctlun and Julius Cesar! Dust. Whcro
arc the heroes who fought on both sides at
Chrronca. at Hastings, at Marathon, at
crcSy, u tho 10000 men who fought at
Asincour;. Il tho 10000 men who faced
death az Jena, of the 100000 Whose armor
gliitcrcl in tho sun at Wnsram. Of tho |, 600, /.
900 men under Darius at Arbclln, Of tho
a,Cil, coo incn under Xcrxcs at Thcrmopylnl
They arc all dust!
Where are the guests who danced tho floors
" tho Alharibra, or the Persian palaces Of
Ahnmcr,is. Dust! Where are the musicians
who played, and the orators who spoke, aud
tho aulp:ors vino chiselcd, AMI the archi-
tects who built In all tho centuries except our
own. Dust! The greatest library In tho
world, that which has the widest shelves and
tho longest aislcs and the most multitudinous
volumes and the vastest riches, Is the I'M.
tcrsround library. Il Is the royal library.
tho continental library, the hcm.piicric H.
brary. the Planetary library, the library Of
tho dust And all tlcsc library eases will lie
o;rn.L, and all thc~c scrolls unrollc,l,
and all thcsc volumes unclaspsl; and
rs easily ms ia your library or mine
We take NJ n boos, blow the ,.us; or
of IL, anil turn over its pages, - easily will
tho Lord of the Resurrection pick up cut Of
this library of dust every volume Of human
life, AMI open it and read il and display il.
And the volume will b, rebound. "a H. set in
the royal library " the Kings palace. or in
the prison library IL tho sell destroyed. Oh,
this Iai.liy literature Of the dust. Ii is not
10 wonderful after all that Christ clioS', in
stead of nm ink tan'l, the imlT'=siUnalc sand
on the ilucr Ut ai ancient temple, an,l instead
Of u hard pm, put forth his furciin:-r with
the sat,,r l.in'l of nerve and muscl, and linc
aud flesh ~ that which makes w nCr own
forv!im.cr. and wrote the awful ,inori II
Hypocrisy a:ul full AMI complete FOR. ,ivru,-Ss
for rrjpi;aml sinncr.. even thu worst.
AMI HOW can believe that whic., | read,
how il,;t Il mother kept burning candle III
tho window every night tor ten Years, and
one night very late, poor waif Of the street
entcrrSl The a:el woman SIiL Ia lcr. "Sii
down by the fire." and the stranger said,
why ID You L,rpila: li.;i., IN the window:
The ns,,l woman sail: THAT j. 10 light my
maynard daughter wi III she returns. since
she wcnt away ten years ago, my hair ha'
turned white Folks blame me :nr worryin.
about her. hut ym ssc um her mother and
somciirns. halt dozen times IA night. oIril
the duur and i"i uut in:o the darkness and
cry, Minnie" ''.i:in,.' .iut mist not tell
you amy Iinrr a,~ ut my trouble. Tor guess,
from the VA! ynu Try, you have trouble
enough -. yo;;r own WHY, low cold and
sex you s-rin. Oh, Eiy! can i; tc: Yes,
you ne Minnie. my own lost child. Thank
Col that you are home again" And what n
time ~ rejoicing there was IN that lioirr tina,
night. Aad Christ again s;oo,sNi clown and
in the a>lr's uf that hearth, now lighted up
not morr L. the Srca, blazing ln;s than 10y
the joy ot reunited household. wrote the
same li,'cra,iis words that h. Eal written
more than eighteen hundred wears aga in the
dust Of The Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness!
4 word hi enough AMI high enough to let
pass ihri II II I'll the nriui,> IL heaven. n
million breast. on white horSS. nosiril to
nustrf ;.nk e. flank.