The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-01
JBLICAN WuMNGToN, DELAWARE, MONDAY, AUGUST l. 1893

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suoEmsor 1,UUU years oannos oDnyeras
Bishop Darlington had . book Of on
three leaves. The frst Leaf was black, Il
second leaf red, the third leaf white. II
black leaf suggested sin, the red lel
atonement, the white leaf purifcatio,
That is the whole story. God will abul
dainty pardon.
Sympathy For the Psnitent.
must not forget to say that as Chris
STOPPING down, with his finger wrote O
the ground 1t is evident that his symp.
thies are with this penitent woman an
that he has no sympathy with her hypt
critical pursuers. Just opposite to Tia
Is the world 9 habit. Why didn't thes
unclean Pharisees bring one Of their owl
number to Christ for exooriation an,
capital punishment. No, mol They over
look that in man which they damnate II
woman, and 30 the world has had fo
offending woman scourges and objurga
tion, and for just one offense she becomes
an outcast, while for men whose lives have
been sodomic for 20 years the world swings
+ open NJ doors of brilliant welcome, and
they may In high places. Unlike the
Christ Of my text, the world writes q
mans mtsdemeanor In dust, but ohisels q
woman's of1ense with great capitals upon
| inefaceable marble.
For foreign lords and princes, whose
names cannot even be mentioned In 70.
spectacle circles abroad because they are
walking lazarettos Of abomination, some
OF our American prineesses of fortune
wait and at the first beck sail out with
them into the blackness Of darkness for.
ever. And in what are called higher cir
cles OF society there Is now not only the
Imitation OF foreign dress and foreign
manners, but an imitation of foreign dis
soluteness. like foreigner, and like
an American, but the sickest creature on
earth is an American playing the foreign.
or. Society needs to be reconstructed on
this subject. Treat them alike, masculine
crime and feminine crime. II you cut the
one In granite, cut them both in granite.
II you write tho one in dust, write the
other In dust. mo, no." says the world
"let woman go down and let man 20 up"
What is that ! hear FLASHING into the Hud.
son or Potomac at midnightS And then
there Is gurgle as Of strangulation, and |
all Is still. Never mind. It is only a |
woman too discouraged to live. Let the
mills Of the cruel world grind right on,
But while speak Of Christ Of the text,
his STOPPING down writing in the dust, do
not think underrate the literature Of the
dust. It 10 tho most tremendous Of all
literature It Is the greatest Of all libraries.
When Layard e1humed Nineveh, he was
only opening the door Of Its mighty dust
The excavations Of PoMpeii have only
been the unclasping Of the lids Of volume
OF nations dust. When Admiral Farra-
gut and his friends visited that resurrected
city, the house Of Balbo, who had been
one Of Its chief citizens In Its prosperous ,
days, was opened, and table was spread
In that house which 1910 years had been
buried by volcanic eruption. and Farragut
and his guests walked over the exquisite
nosaics and under the beautiful fresco, I
AID 1t almost seemed like being entertain q
ID ny those who Is centuries ago had I
'urned to dust y
Literature Of the Dust.
Oh, this mighty literature Of the dust
Where are the remains of Sennaoherib and
Attila and Epaminondas and Tamerlane c.
md Trajan and Philip of Macedon and n
Julius Cesarp Dust! Where are the he
oes who fought on both sides at Cher .
nea, at Hastings, at Marathon, at Cressy, y
4 the 10000 men who fought at Agin- A
curt, Of the $50, 900 men who faced death 81
b jena, Of the 400, 900 whose srmor gilt. b,
ored In the sun OF Wagram, Of the 1,0O0,- m
90 men under Darius at Arbela, Of the \,
64l, 900 men under Xerxes at Thermop-
las Dustl Where are the guests who d
anced the floors Of the Alhambra or the VI
ersian palace Of Ahasuerus9 Dust NJ
here are tho musicians who played or gr
10 orators who spoke and the sculptors
no chiseled and the architects who built IN
oil the centuries except our OWN Dustl NJ,
here are the most Of the books that onoo ic,
,trnnoed the world9 Dust! Pliny wrote
books Of history; all lost The most of >.
enander's writings lost. OF $40 come 70
es Of Plautus all gone but 30. Euripides gel
rote 100 dramas; all gone but 10. Rschy- an
. wrote 100 dramas; all gone but seven. an
AFRO wrote the laborious biographies Of ne,
% Romans; not q fragment left. Quin- IN
lar. wrote his favorlte book Oh the cor Mo
ption Of eloquenoe; all lost Thirty W.
oks of Tacltus lost. Dion Cassius wrote ",
books; only 20 remain. Berosius' his
~ all lost. Where there Is one living AM
Ok there are thousand dead books. mi
10 greatest library In the world, that Ey,
,ich has the widest shelves and longest b,s
les and the most multitudinous vol a.,
les and the vastest wealth, is the under va.
ound library. It is the royal library, III
} continental library, the hemisphere
rary, the planetary library, the library :
the dust And all these library cases II
II be opened, and all these scrolls un- hgf
led, and all these volumes unclasped way
! as easily as in your library or mine VIII
take up book, blow the dust of of 1t ,ou
i turn ovor its pages so easily will the NV,
I'd OF the resurrection pick out of this ~
rary of dust every volume Of human life HOE
! open 1t and read 1t and display it, and The
volume will DO rebound, to be set in dep
royal library of the kings palace or well
the prison library of the self destroyed ra,c
Boundless Mercy ro,,
~ W. .' .n'smSy s''1 0ule "a Sne uusS. rare
,ist chose Instead of an ,nlstand tho .ho Will
reasonable sand on the floor of an an wor
1t temple, and instead of hard pen dral
forth his forefnger with the same 0 hr
of nerve and muscle and bone and Tho
b as that which makes up our own ,ir
finger, and wrote the awful doom OF e.
ocrisy, and full and complete forgive uen
J for repentant sinners, even the worst. pnt
talk about the ocean Of Christ mercy. deed
four ships upon that ocean and let for
n soil out in opposite directions for bres
10 years and see If they can find the
70 Of the ocean Of the divine mercy. "
them sail to the north and the south w
the east and the west, and then after ths
l ZOO years Of voyage let them come 49,.
( and they will report, "No shore, no ~ IVY. =,
o to the ocean Of Gods mercyl' ssVoo
nd now l can believe that which I rout'
!, how that a mother kept burning q cd Il
lie In the window every night for ten palat
8, and one night very late poor waif sacr.
he street entered. The aged woman o,o.s
stranger soid HWhv az vom Ie.r that guar
t in the Window" Tho aged woman heys
:: "That is to light my Maynard upon
shter when she returns. Se,ce she Tfou
away, ten years ago, my hair has Rule
cd white. Folks blame me for worry "a a.
nd son,otin,oo ha,s ao.ar ~ .,,.,as Chan
I open tho door and look ont into judlc
darkness and cry, Lizzie! Lizzier on to
l must not tell you any moro about Of tn
;rouble, for I guess from the way you ticiar