The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-03


was made" Christ writing on the
ground.
II you should see His hand in all the
passing seasons, how it would illu-
mine the world! All verdure and foil
age would be allegoric, and again we
would hear Him say, as of old, Con
slider the lilies of the field, how they
grow" and we would not hear the
whistle of the quail or the cawing OF
a raven or the roundelay of brown
threshcr, without saying, Behold the
fowls of the air, they gather not in
barns, yet your Heavenly Father feed
eth them;" and a Dominic hen of the
barnyard could not cluck for her
brood, but we would hear Christ say
ing, as of old, "How often would l
have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings" and through the
redolent hedges we would hear Christ
saying, 81 am the rose OF Sharon"
we could not dip the seasoning from
the salt-cellar without thinking of the
divine suggestion, "Ye are the salt OF
the earth, but if the salt hath lost its
SAVIOR it is fit for nothing but to be
cast out and trodden under foot of
men,"
Let us wake from our stupidity and
take the whole world as a 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 out with the
evangelist, "The dayspring from on
high hath visited u.s." or, caught in a
snowstorm, while struggling home,
eyebrows and beard and apparel all
covered with the whirling fakes, we
would cry out with David, "Wash me,
and | shall be winter than snow." In
a picture gallery of Europe there is on
the ceiling an exquisite fresco, but the
people having to look straight up, it
wearied and dizzied them and bent
their necks almost beyond endurance;
so great looking glass was put near
the floor, and now visitors only need
to look easily down into this mirror
and they see the fresco at their feet
And so, much of the high Heaven OF
Gods truth is reflected in this world
as in mirror, and things that are
above are copied by things around us
What right have we to throw away
one of Gods Bibles-aye, the first
Bible he ever gave the race; We tall
about the Old Testament and the New
! Testament, but the oldest testament
contains the lessons of the natura
world. Some people like the New Tes
lament so well they discard the Ole
Testament. Shall we like the New
Testament and the Old Testament S,
we'll as to depreciate the Oldest; name
ly, that which was written befor
Moses was put afioat on the boat o
leaves which was calked with as
phaltum; or reject the Genesis tina
= was written centuries before Adam
Il lost rib and gained wife; No, no
When Deity stoops down and write
8 on the ground, let us read it.
!, would have no less appreciation
( the Bible on paper that comes out
the paper mill, but l would urge al
Z: probation of the Bible in the gras
II the Bible in the sand hill, the Bible
'' the geranium, the Bible in the asphC
. del, the Bible in the dust
u But when Christ stopped down an
Il wrote on the ground, what did h
write? The Pharisees did not stop
e examine. The towards, whipped
t. their own consciences, fled pell mel
: Nothing will fay a man like a
le aroused conscience.
!e But what did Christ write on II
II ground? The Bible does not stat
~ Yet as Christ never wrote anythir
~ except that once you cannot blame
10 for wanting to know what he real
~ did write. But | am certain he wro
nothing trivial or nothing unimpo
ID tant. And will you allow me to st
e that I think / know what he wro
lie on the ground? 1 judge from the ci
is cumstances. He might have write
lie other things, but kneeling there
st the temple, surrounded by a pack
OF hypocrites who were self-appoint
T. constabulary, and having in his pre-
p ence a prosecuted woman, who e'
p IDENTIFY was very penitent for her sir
to I am sure he wrote two words, both
We them graphic and tremendous and I
Ill verberating. And the one word w
m Hypocrisy" and the other word W
is forgiveness"
ID, From the way these Pharisees a
n Scribes vacated the premises and G
he out into the fresh air, as Christ, wi
he just one ironical sentence unmask
OF them, l know they were first-cla
lie. hypocrites. 1t was then as it is no
ed The more faults and Inconsistent
ad people have of their own the more
I'LL we're and censorious are they about t
'es faults of others. Here they are
OF twenty stout men arresting and
I'm raigning one weak woman! Magn
ny cent business to be engaged in! Th
'ut wanted the fun of seeing her fai
'as away under heavy judicial senter
from Christ, and then, after she h
est been taken outside of the city a
nd fastened at the foot of the precipi
he the Scribes and Pharisees wanted
te- satisfaction of each coming and dr.,
lar ping pig stone on her head, for Il
re, was the style of capital punishmC
to that they asked for. Some peo
tn. have taken the responsibility of S
ng ing that Christ never laughed. Blu
:, I think as he saw those men drop eve
an thing, chagrined, mortified, expos
vn, and go out quicker than they came
the he must have laughed. At any +
of it makes me laugh to read of it.
of of these libertines, dramatizing
ers dignation against impurity! Bl
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