West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-02-28

rompen have only been tho unciasp-
ing OF the lids OF volume OF a nations dust.
When Admiral Farragut and mis- friends a
few years ago. visited that resurrected city.
the house OF Balbo, who had been one OF its
Oh or citizens in its prosperous days. was
opened and table was spread I'm that house
which eighteen hundred and ten years has
been buried by volcanic eruption. and Fnrra-
gut and his guests walked over the
exquisite mosaics and under the beautiful
fresco, and IL almost seemed like being enter
tanned by those who eighteen centuries ago
had turned eto dust. Oh. this mighty
literature OF the dust. Where are tho
remains OF Sennacherib and Attila and
Epamimondas and Tnmerlane and Tro-
jan and Philip OF Maeedon and Julius
Cesorf Dust Where are the heroes
who fought on both sides at ChPronea, at
Hastings, at Marathon, at Greasy, OF the no.
O0O men who fought at Agncourt, or the
20. O0O men who faced death at jena, OF the
100000 whose armor glttered I'm tho sun at
Wragram, OF tho !, 900, 900 men under Darius
at Arbella. of the 2, Gil, 900 men under Xerxes
at Thermopylml Dust
Where are the guests who danced the floors
of tho Alhambra. or the Persian palaces OF
Ahasuerusl Dustl Where are the musicians
who played and the orators who spoke, and
the sculptors who chiseled. and the archi-
tects who built in all tho centuries ex-
cept our ownl Dust The greatest
library OF tho world, that which has
the widest shelves and the longest ais'es
and the most multitudinous volumes
and the vastest wealth. is the underground
library: lt Is the royal library, the con-
the planetary library. the library OF
tho 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 book, blow the dust Off OF il, and turn
over its pages. so easily will the Lord OF the
Resurrection pick up out of this library of dust
every volume Of human life and open it and
read IL and display il. And the volume
will be rebound, TO b. set in the royal ~
brary Of tho Kings palace, or i'm the prison
library OF tho self destroyed. oh, this
mighty literature OF the dust! 10 is not so
wonderful after all that Christ chose instead
OF an inkstand, the impressionable sand on
the floor of an ancient temple. and, instead
of hard pen, put forth His forefinger with
the same kind OF nerve, and muscle and
bone, and flesh. as that which makes up our
own foreiinger, and wrote the awful doom
OF hypocrisy and full and complete Forgive
ness for repentant sinners, even the worst.
Ard now i can believe that which l read.
how that mother kept burning q candle in
the window every night for ten years, and
one night very late poor waif of the street
entered. The aged woman said to her: "St
down by the fire." and the stranger said:
why do you keep that light in the win
dow| The aged woman said: ''That
Is TO light my hayward daughter
when she returns. Since she went away ten
years ago my hair has turned white. Folks
blame me for worrying about her, but you
see am her mother, and sometimes, half a
dozen times n night, | open the door and
look out into the darkness and cry:
'Lizziel Lizzie' But l must not
tell you any moro about INV
trouble, for guess, from the way You cry
you have trouble enough OF your own
why, how cold and sick you scent Oh myi
can It boz Yes, You are Lizzie. nv own lost
child. Thank God that you are home again p
And what time OF rejoicing there was in
that house that night And Christ again
stopped down, and i'm the ashes
not more by the great blazing logs thnn by
the joy OF reunited household, wrote the
same liDerating words that lie had written
more than eighteen hundred years ago i'm the
DUST OF the Jerusalem temple. Forgivonessl
A word broad enough and high enough m
let pass through it all the armies OF heaven. a
million abreast, on white horses, nostril 10
nostril flank to flank