Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-03-16

becomes an outcast. while for me7 whose
lives have been sodomie for twenty Years,
the world swings opens its doors OF brilliant
welcome, and they NAV SIT in legislatures and
senates ami parllan nts or on thron = mike
the Christ Of nv text, the worli writes q
mans mlsderneanFr IN dust tut chiseis a
woman'> oFense with great captils upon in
cfTaceatle marble. For foreign loris
ard princes, whose nsmes cannot even
abroad, heeau-e thev are walk
ing lazarettoe # a5ominstion. Our
American pr nceSsas .. fortune ait AMI at
the first baok sail ont With them into the
b!acEne>s Of darkness forever. AMI n what
are called higher circles Of so1ietv there snow
not only their imitation Of foreign dress and
foreign manners. Mt ar i'm tafion OF foreign
dl~solnteness ! ike an Engsi~hman and |
Ike an American. but tie s.cke>t creature on
earth is an American playing tie English
man. Society naedS to he re"on>tru< til on
this subject. Treat them a ike. masculine
cIlue and feminine or me. Il you cut The
one in granite. cut them b1th n granite
II YOU WRIT tn one IN dust, write the
other Fl dust. No no. SAYS the world. let
woman 20 down an let man 20 IN. What
is that | hear FLASHING into the Fast River at
Midnight. and then there IS a gurgle as Of
strangulatlon, and al IS still. Never mind
It is ONLY a woman too discouraged 10 live
Let the mills Of the cruel word grind right
But while I speak Of Chris. OF the text
Hio stopping down writing in the dust. DO
rot think | underrate tie literature Of the
dust 1t is the most solemn and tremendous
f IF All literature. 1t is the greatest OF all
hbrar es. " en- Iavarf eEhumcd Nin-yeh
be was only o;enng the door of is
mighty dust. The excavations of
Pompaii have only been the unniasp-
ny of tie lids of a volume of a nations dust
When Admiral Farragut ani his trienis. a
few years ago. visited that rtsurrectei CITY,
~ I-,,ea IF J.N1, who had teap n of IT'S
IN eff citizens in its prosparous DAYS, was
opened and a tab g was spread IN that house
which eighteen hundred and ten Years has
been turIe1 fv volcanic eruption and Farra-
yut AMI hs guess walked over the
exquisite mosaics AMI under thu heaulful
FRISCO. and il almost seemed like be ny enter
tanned by those who eighteen centuries ago
had turned to dust. h this mighty
literature of the dust. Where are the
remains of Sennacherib and Attla and
Fpanimonias and Tamarlane and 1ro-
ian and Philip Of Macedon and julius
cesar, Dust Where arr the heroes
who fought on both sides AZ Oh ronea at
Hastings, at Marathon, at Cressy. Of the no.
no nan who fought at Aginsourt, of the
-5l00 men who faced death at jena. o. the
m.a1D who's arInor giittere IN the sun at
Wragram. of the 10000 men unle lptr!u}
at Arbaiia. of the 2,64l, 0l0 men under Aerxes
ar IhermOpylIt lust.
Where are the guests who danced the 'o0rs
Of the Aihanbra. or the Persian palaces of
Ahasu4rus1 Dust Where are the musicians
who PLAYED AMI the orators who SPOKE, and
the sculptors who chiselel |, AMI the archl-
tects who built IN all the centlrle5 eX-
cept our own Dust The greatest
library of the world. that which has
the widest shelves AMI the longest ais es
and the most mJltltudlnous volumes
and the vastest wealth, Is the underground
library. 1t Is the royal library, the con
tinental library, the hemisphere library,
rho pIonpfarV library fIa Itr4rr Of
tue dust. AMI all these library cases
will be opened. and all these scrolls
unrolled ami al! these volunes unclasp-i and
as easily as in your library or mine we take
up a book, blow the dust Off Of it, and turn
over its PAGES. 50 easily will the orr of t e
Resurrection plck up out OF this library of dust
every volume of human life ami open it and
read it and display It. And the volume
viii be rebound, to b set in the royal Il
brary of the Kings palace, or in the prison
library of tie self destroyed. Oh, this
mighty literature OF the dust. 1t is. not 50
wonderful after all that Christ chose, instead
of an lnkstand, the lmpressionable sanl on
the floor of an ancient temple and, instead
of a hard pen, put forth His torefinger with
the same kind Of nerve, an musclA, and
bone, and fe-h. as that which makes up our
own forefin.er, and wrot, the awful doom
OF Hypocrisy and full and complete FORGIVE
ness for repentant sinners, even the worst.
And now | can believe that which | read
how that a mother kept burning a candle n
the window every night tor ten years. anc
one night very late a poor Waif of the street
entered. The aged woman said to her: "Sit
, down by the fire, ami the stranger SAID
Why do You keep that Light in the win
dow" The aged woman sad: "Tha
Is to light my wavward daughteI
; when she returns. Since she went away ter
years ago my hair has turned VIII te. Folk.
blame me for worrying about her, but Vol
see | am her mother, and som tunes, half
dozen times a night, | open the door anc
:. LOOK out into the darkness and CRY
Lizzie, Lizzie But | must no
!. tell you any more about m
trouble, for | guess, fron the way YOU cry
you have trouble enough Of Your own
!, Why, how cold and SICK YOU seem, Oh, my
$ can 1t be- AeS, YOU are Lizzie. my own 10,
child. Thanl God that You are home again
And what a time of rejoicing there was j
. that houSs that night. And Christ agai,
stopped down. and in the ashe
not more ty the great blazing logs than h
the Joy OF a reunited HOUSEHOLDS. wrote tn
+, sama lberatlng words that He had write
more than eighteen hundred years ago in til
: dust Q tie Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness,
\ word broad enough autl ugh enough t
let pass through 1t all the armies OF heaven,
million abreast, on white horses, nostriI I
J noStrll. flank to flank.