Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01

suages: But He is still stooninu down
eno,, WIN HIS finger writing on the
ground; IN the winter in letters Of crys.
!als' IN the spring in letters Of flowers.
~: ~ summer In golden letters of harvest.
~ autumn In letters of fire on fallen
anr;es now 1t would sweeten up and
gu enr'c en- ana emblazon this world could
Th;s see Inrlsts caligraphy all over it.
th hos ~olio was not flung out into space
loci, omt VI years ago and then left to
49, iGuh oue Tor itself. 1t is still under the
second takes His hand off of It. or II
would soon be shipwrecked world, a
defunct world, an obsolete world, nm
abandoned world, q dead world. LET
mere De hight" was said at the begin
nlng And Christ stands under the win
sry SKIES and says, Let there be snow
makes to enrich the earth; and under
me clouds of spring and says, Come We
blossoms and make redolent the or
chards; and in September, dips the
branches into the vat of beautiful colors
ana swings them in the hazy air. No
Whlm OF mine is this. Without Him
was not anything made that was made"
CHRIST writing on the ground. If we
could see His hand in all the passing
seasons, how it would illumine the
De allegoric, and again we would
hear Him say as Of old, "Con-
slider the lilies of the field, how they
grow" and we would not hear the
whistle Of a quail or the cawing of a
raven or the roundelay of brown
thresher, without saying, Behold the
fowls of the air, they gather not into
barns, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth
them" and a Dominic hen of the barn
yard could not cluck for her brood, yet
we would hear Christ saying as of old,
How often would have gathered thy
children together, even as hen gathered
her chickens under her WINGS" and
through the redolent hedges we would
hear Christ saying, Il am the rose of
Sharon;" We could not dip the season.
ing from the salt cellar without thinking
of the divine suggestion, "Ye are the
salt of the earth, but if the salt have
lost its SAVIOR, it is fit for nothing but to
be cast out and trodden under foot OF
men," Let us wake up from our stupid
ity and take the whole world as par
able. Then if with gun and pack of
hounds We start off before dawn and see
the morning coming down off the hills
to meet us, We would cry out with the
evangelist, "The day spring from on
high hath visited u.s." or caught in a
snow storm, while struggling home, eye
brows and beard and apparel all covered
with the whirling flakes, we would cry
out with David, Wash me and shall
be whittier than snow" In picture GAL
lery of Europe. there is on the ceiling
an exquisite fresco, but people having
to look straight up, it wearied and
most beyond endurance, SO great look
ing glass was put near the floor and now
visitors only need to look easily down
into this mirror and they see
the fresco at their feet. And SO
much of all the Heaven of Gods
truth is reflected in this world
as in a mirror, and the things that are
above are copied by things all around
us. What right have We to throw away
one of Gods Bibles, aye, the first Bible
he ever gave the race? We talk about
the Old Testament and the New Tesla
ment, but the Oldest Testament contains
the lessons of the natural world. Some
people like the New Testament SO we'll
they discard the Old Testament. Shall
We like the New Testament and the Old
Testament SO we'll as to depreciate the
oldest; namely, that which was written
before Moses was put afoat on the boat
of leaves which was calked with asphalt
tum; or reject the Genesis and the Rev
citation that were written centuries be-
fore Adam lost a rib and gained a wife:
No, no; when Deity stoops down and
writes on the ground, let US read il.
would have no less appreciation of the
Bible on paper that comes out of the
paper mill, but would urge apprecia-
tion of the Bible in the grass, the Bible
in the sand hill, the Bible in the gera-
mum, the Bible in the asphodel, the
Bible in the dust. Some one asked an
ancient king whether he had seen the
eclipse of the sun. NO." said he. 81
have SO much to do on earth, have no
time to look at Heaven" And if oul
faculties were all awake in the study OF
God, we would not have time to go niue
further than the first grass blade. ]
ever contradict what We call revealed
religion. have no sympathy with the
followers of Aristotle, who after the
telescope was invented, would not look
through it, lest it contradict some of the
theories of their great master. 1 shall
be glad to put against one lid of the
Bible the microscope, and against the
other lid of the Bible the telescope.
But when Christ stopped down and
wrote on the ground, what did He
| WE1Le! 1u0 uhT1Seos uAO AOC oeop ~
examine. The towards, whipped OF
their own consciences, fed pell NELL
Nothing will fay man like an aroused
conscience. DIR. Stevens, in his His
tory of Methodism," says that when
Rev. Benjamin Abbott of olden times
was preaching, he exclaimed: Fol
aught I know there may be murderer
in this house" and man rose in the
assemblage and started for the door and
bawled aloud, confessing to murder he
had committed fifteen years before
And no wonder these Pharisees, re.
minded of their sins, took to their heel Is
But what did Christ write on the groundl
The Bible does not state. Yet, as Christ
never wrote anything except that once
you cannot blame us for wantingto know
what He really did write. But l am GER
tain He wrote nothing trivial, or nothing
unimportant. And willyou allow me te
say that think know what He wrote
on the ground? l judge from the cir
cumstances. He might have written
other things. but kneeling there IN the
temple, surrounded by pack Of hypo-
critics, who were self-appointed con-
stabulary, and having in His presence
prosecuted woman, who evidently was
nenitent for. her sins, i am sure ne
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