Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-28
SUNDAYS SERMON.
r OF REV. DIR. TALMAGES
W. srERLING DIsCOURsEs.
..,iect: "The Literature of Dust

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,uobammedan mosque stands now where
=. = stood Herod's temple. the scene OF my
y. Solomon's temple had stood there, but
y.tnebadne gar thundere 1t down. Zorro
s',.s ,emnle had stood there, but that had
~ nrosfrated Now we take our places
y. fannie that Herod built because he Yves
II N great architecture and he wanted the
....dng temples TO seem insignificant Put
~ ar ten cathedrals together and they
In not equal that structure. IL covered
..,aen acres There were marble pillars
l.snortinr roofs OF ceder and silver tables
..FTbieh stood golden cups, and there were
-.sings exquisite and inscriptions resp en-
y, Suffering balustrades and ornamented
,,srsys The building of this temple kept
!" tbonsand workmen busy forty six years.
\ tbat stupendous pile of pomp and mag
.soanee sat Christ, and ] stening throng
s,oi about him. when wild disturbance
III Mace A group of men are pulling ana
snsfing along a woman who has committed
4, worst crime against society. When
@sv have brought her in front OF Christ,
,ssy al that He sentence her TO death by
+a5ng They are critical, merci-
u disingenuous crowd They want
4 ret Christ into controversy and
roblie apprehension. II He say: LET
H. die they will charge Hum with cruelty.
| II Ne lei Ter 90. they viii charge Him with
I'M in completely with wickedness
whichever way He does, they would howl
At Him Then occurs "A scene which has
MI bepn sufficiently regarded. He leaves
NJ lounre or bench on which He was
Ttns and goes down on one knee, or
Nm knees, and with the forefnger of
ii, right hand lie begins TO write in
NJ dust Of the floor. word after word. But
NV were not to be diverted or hindered.
mn Kept on demanding that He settle this
~ Of transgression until He looked up and
Nh them that they might themselves begin
liewoman's assassination, IL the complainant
VIC bsd never done ANYTHING wrong him
m would open the fire ECO ahead,
M be sure that the man who filings
M first missile is immaculate Then He
n,umel writing with HIS finger in the dust
n the floor word after wori. Inst cad Of
kosiBg over His shoulder TO see what He had
written the sconndrels skulked away.
Finally. the whole place is clear of pur-
msN, antagonists and plaintiffs, and when
Christ has fin shed this strange chirography
n the dust He LOOKS M and finds the
umsn all alone The prisoner is the only
one Of the court room left. the Judges the
police, the prosecuting ATTORNEYS having
cleared out Christ is victor, and He SAYS to
he woman "Where are the prosecutors in
tbs casel Are they all gomez Then l dis
charge you 90 and sin no more.n
lhaye always wondered what Christ wrote
On Tie ground For do YOU realize that is
hs oaly time that He ever wrote at ALI |
nov that fusebius says that Christ once
wrote letter to Abgarus the King OF
hea, but there is no cool evidence of su''h
correspondence. The wisest being the
Eord ever saw and the one who
hl more to say than any one who ever
lived never writing n book or a chapter. or
lpge or paragraph. or word on parch
HeHt Nothing but this literature of the
Dust and one sweep of n brush or one
treath Of wind o6lterated that forever.
among all the rolls of the volumes of
the first library founded mt Thebes
here was not one scroll of Christ, Among
ihs seven hundred thousand hooks of the
AeIandrian library. which bY the infamous
'eree OF Ca'iph Omnr were used as fuel
b heat the four thousand baths of
tie city, not one sentence had Christ
Fnnsd Among all the infnitude of
volumeS now standing in the libraries of
Edinburgh the tritish Museum. or Berlin or
Vienna, or the learned repositories OF all
tadons not one word written directly by
he finger OF Christ! All that he ever wrote
.e wrote in dust, uncertain, shifting, van
hhng dust
Ny text says He stopped down and wrote
Mlhe ground. Standing straight up a man
might write on the ground with a staff,
lal il with his fingers he would
Fule IN the dust, he must bend clear
over Aye, he must get at least
% one Knee or he cannot write on the
Foand. Be not surprised that He
rooled down, His whole life was a
eYhg down. STOPPING down from
caste 10 harm. Shopping down from
ssta homage to mobocratic ieer.
nm residence above the stars to where a
sfhad 70 fall TO designate His landing place.
iln heaven's front door to the world S back
se from writing in round and sivered
ssS OF constellation and galaxy ON
@oae scroll of heaven. TO writing on the
Iolld IN the dust, which the feet of the
y0M had lett in Herod's temple.
January you have ever stepped
" o. princes conservatory that
~ Mexican cactus and maguo-
IN llll bloom, into the outside air ten de-
W meow zero, You may get some idea of |
aAs change OF atmosphere from celestial |
sHetrlal How many heavens there are
NOV not, but there are at least three. for
~ was caught up into the third heaven"
~ came down from highest heaven to |
sen TO first heaven. down swfter than |
1'oE ever fell, down amidst stellar spsn- |
Il nay Himself eclipsed, down through !,
- through atmospheres, through appall- I,
Y iace. down to where there was no lower I
~ from being waited on at the ban ,
wv the skies to the broiling of fish for :,
p"h breakfast on the banks of the lake. (
emo azoned chariots of eternity J
We saddle of a mules back The I
80 cherubic. seraphic. archangelic,
s laying Of sixty-two and half cents !
az to Cesar From the death ess ,
ssnL 70 tomb built to hide human /
TJIlton The uplifted wave of Galilee !,
IA u 40 but He had to come down before. I,
m. ms feet, He could tou h it. and the (
:, " sid that rose above the billow
NJ, ngher yet, but He had to come J
n, 1eiore, with HIS lip, He could 4
80 Nazareth a STOPPING down. Death
zen two burglars a STOPPING down. 1
y, was IN consonance with humiliations |
u, g gsa gone before and with self abnega-
4. s aat came after, when on that memoir
= y IN herod's temple He stopped down
rs.9te on the ground.
i Gsl ner The words He was writing were in
kp'tU Latin. or Hebrew, | cannot saw,
+ Z an. AlrW al those ian guages. Bat He is
+ ~ ping down and with His finger writ
n ground; in the winter in letters
4 ~, 'aS IN the spring in letters of
. ~. IN summer in golden letters of
H.. N autumn in letters OF fire on fall n
= ~ now Il would sweeten up and en-
asss embla7on this world could we see
a. Sealisraphy all over it. This world
,s,, Hung out into space thousands of
Il go sni then left to look out for it.
o.. still under the divine care.
- never for a half sacnnd taEns His