Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-04

earth, and under the clouds Of spring and
says, Come, yc blossoms, and make rcdolcnt
the orchards, and in September dips tho
branches In the vat of beautiful colors and
swings them into the hazy air. No within
of mine is this. without him was not
anything made that was made. Christ
writing on the ground
If you could scc his hand in all the pass
ing seasons, how 1t would illuminC the
world All vcrdurc and foliage would be
allCgUric, and again we would hear him
say, rs of old, Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow, and we would not
hear in the whistle of u quail or the cav
ing of u raven or the roundCay of n brown
thrashcr without saying: "l}chold tho
fowls of the air. They gather not in
barns, yet your Heavenly Father fccdcth
Them" and u Dominic hen of the barn
yard could not cluck for her brood but we
would hear Christ saying, as Of Old GLOW
often would | have gathered thy children
together even as u hen EathcrCth her
chickens under her wings, and through
the rcdolcnt hedges we would hear Christ
saying, ~ am the rose OF sharon" We
could not dip the seasoning from the salt
cellar without thinking Of tho divine sug-
Ecstinn, eye are the salt of the earth. but
If the salt hath lost its SAVIOR 1t is fit for
nothing but to be cast out and troddcn
under foot Of mem"
Let MS wake from our stupidity and take
the whole world as u parable 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 ont with the evangelist, "Thc day
spring from on high hath visited us" or,
caught in Snowstorn while struggling
home, eyebrows and beard and apparel all
covered with the whirlng flakes, we would
cry out with David, wash me, and
shall he whittier than snow" In n picture
gallery Of Europe there is on the ceiling
an exquisite frcsCo, but the people having
to look straight up 1t wcaricd and diZzicd
them and bent their nCcks almost beyond
endurance, 30 great looking glass was
put near the floor, and now visitors only
need TO look easily down into This mirror,
and they sec the frcSco at their feet And
SO, much of the high heaven of God s truth
IS reflected in this world as in % mirror,
and things that arc above arc copied by
things around MS.
What right have we TO throw away ono
of Gods Bihles-ayc, the first Bible he
ever gave the race? We talk about the Old
INTl slIlI'lN anu INV .N'N ltSlHllttll DllU
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 dcpreciatc tho oldcst-namcly, that
which was written before Moses was put
anoat on the boat of leaves which was
calkcd with asphatum-or reject the Gen
Ton l,,f,, pp
Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No,
mol When Deity stoops down and writes
on the ground, let us read it.
The Bible In Nature.
] would have no less appreciation Of tho
Bible on paper that comes out of the paper
mill, but would urge appreciation of the
Bible in the grass, tho Bible in the sand
hill, the Bible in the geranium, the Bible
in the asphodcl, the Bible in the dust.
Some ore asked an ancient king whether
he had seen the eclipse Of the sun. NO."
said he. Il have so much to study on
earth have no time TO look at heaven"
And il our faculties were all awake in the
study of God we would not have time to
60 much farther than the first grass blade
! have no fear that natural religion will
ever contradict what We call revealed re-
lIGlll lllNt Ilb ~ lllillllN WIN INC lil-
lowers Of Aristotle who after the telescope
was invented would not look through it
lest it contradict some OF the theories of
their great master. l 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 writcy
The Ihnrisccs did not stop to examine
The towards, whipped of their own con-
sciences, fled pcllmcll. Nothing will fay
q man like an aroused conscience. DR.
Stevens, in his History of Methodsm, "
says that when Rev. Benjamin Abbott Of
oldcn times, was preaching he exclaimed,
For aught know there may be muir
dcrcr in this house" And man roso
from the asscmblagc and started for the
door and bawlcd aloud, confcssing to
murder he had committed IL years before
And no wonder these Pharisccs, reminded
Of their sins, took to their heels
But what did Christ write on the
ground; The Bible docs not state, yet as
Christ never wrote anything except that
once you cannot blame us for wanting to
know what he really did write, but am
certain he wrote nothing trivial or nothing
Unimportant, and will you allow me TO
saw TINT | think know what he wrote ON
rho cround. iudro frou, tho circuu,.
stances Uo might bnyo writt.n othnr
THINGS but knocIing thnra IN rho tom,Io
surrounded hv n NICK If bvnocritc. ,rho
wcrc n solf ,nrointcd conetnIul,r,, md
having in his nrcscrro n nnrsncutod wn,,,.
an. who evidently was ve,cv ponitcnt for
her sins I am sure he wrote two words
both Of thcm gr,phic and trcmcndons md
roycrboroting and fine ono word WINS nhy,
pocrisv !, and tho otbcr word ,va. .,fnr-