The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-08-06

psthy FOR the Penitent - Boundles.
Ocean Of Divine Mercy,
tCopyt'sh'' iS'S' by american Press Asso-
WAsHINaroN, July 8l.--In this dis.
course DR.. Talmage gives heroic treatment
OF delicate subject and applies 70 mod
ern society the Lesson taught by Christ on
memorable ocoasion text, John viii, O.
Jesus stopped down and with his finuer
wrote On the ground"
You must take your shoes off and nut
on the especial slippers provided at the
door II you would enter tho MohammetlaD
mosque which stands now where oneo
stood Herod's temple, the scene OF my
eext Soldmon's temple had stood there.
but Nebuchsdnezzar had thundered 1t
down. 2erubbabels temple had stood
there. but that had bsen FRUSTRATED. Now
No take our places In a teanple that Herod
built, because he was fond Of great arch.-
lecture and no wanted the preceding tenn.
pies to sceln insignificant. Put eight or
ten modern oathedrals together, and thew
would not equal that structure. Il Gov
cred ~ cores. There were marble pillars
supporting roofs Of cedar and silver tables
on which stood golden cups, and there
vGe carvings exquisite and Inscriptions
resplendent, glittering balustrades and
ornAmsntsd gateways. The building Of
Nils temple kept 10, 900 workmen busy "a
years.
In that stupendous pile Of pomp and
mAsnlhoenoe sat Christ, and a listening
ehzOng stood about him when q wild dis.
susb~ncs took place A group Of men are
pulling and pushing along woman who
had oomitted crime against society.
When they have brought her In front OF
Christ, they ask that he sentence her to
death BY stoning. They are critical,
merciless, dlsingenuous crowd, They
want to get Christ into controversy and
public apprehension. II he say, Let her
die, they will charge him with cruelty
II he let her 60, they will charge him With
being In completely with wioketlness
Whichever way he does they would howl
At him.
Then occurs n scene which has not been
sufficiently regarded. He leaves the lounge
or bench on which no was sitting and goes
down on one knee or both knees. and
With the forefnger Of his right hand he
begins 10 write In the dust OF the floor,
word after word. But they were not to be
diverted or hindered. They kept on de-
that he settle this case Of trens-
gression, until he looked UP and told them
they might themselves begin the womsn's
assassination II the complainant who had
never done anything wrong himself would
open ths fire. ITO ahead, but bo sure
that the man who filings the first missile
v immaculate" Then he resumed writ.
Ing with his finger In the dust OF the floor,
word after word. Instead OF looking over
BIS shoulder to see what he had written,
Me scoundrels skulked away. Finally the
whole place ID clear Of pursuers, antago-
nists and PLAINTIFF, and when Christ has |
anished this strange ohirography in the
aust he looks up and finds tho woman all
None
4 Dtvias Judge.
The prisoner IL the only one OF the
courtroom left, the Judges, the police, the
prosecuting attorney having cleared out
Thirst Is victor, and he says TO the woman;
: Where arc the prosecutors In this caseg
Arc thoy all gomez Then discharge you.
20 and sin no more" have wondered
WHAT Christ wrote on the ground. For do
1ou realize that Is tho only time that Ia
'vsr wrote Mt ALP l know that Eusebius
'ays that Christ once wrote letter to Alb
IArus the king Of Edessa, but there Is no
lood evidence of such a correspondence.
Inc wisest being the world ever saw, and
ne one who had moro to say than any ono
!ho ever lived, never writing book or q
hapter or a paragraph or word on perch-
neptl Nothing but tho literature OF the
lust, and one sweep Of brush or ono
'reath Of wind obliterated it forever.
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