Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-19

E YOU HAAaAhHA HHAHA.AlN A~ AhHA r. aAANNlE 10 KNOX
what IL really did write. bat I am ~rr-
tain IT, wrote nothing trivial or nothing
uuimPUriant, And will Nou ALLOW ue 10
-ly that ] think ! know what lie wrote On
the gruuuds | Judge 1Tum thr rtr..um-
stances. Tie might have written other
I things. hut Eu-riins there. iu Tee. Temple,
surrounded hy Pack 20 hyI.uerii,-s who
wrr- s"ll-aFpuint-i ron-taIulary. aud
having Ina IT, I,re-"urr q I.-r-t..u.r'l vs. omar.
who evidently was very penitent for her
sins / am sure nr wrote two words. butl
ul tuvm graphic aud tremendous ami rr-
vrrsrrltin., AID Tie one word Wa
"hyrorri~y' art th" other word Wa for.
siyeuvs~.
Nts. think that one wori Writl.u ON
the ground that dnv hy the finger Of
Christ was the awful word hypocrisy.
What pretensions 10 -uucttty ur,. Ia. mart
uf those hypocritical Phuri~rt.-, When the
FOX begins To pray look uut Tor Your chicF-
ems. One Of the cruel maEuutr- of uldrn
times was going IL eXrommuui-at. one
uf the martyrs, AMI he began in the usual
iorm-'lu the name of God. Amen"
stop says the MARTYR, don't say iii the
udr'e OF God. Vet how many uutrugps
are practiced under the garh of religion
aud sauctityl When ia sNuudS and con.
frrrnres. ministers o: the Gospel are about
to say something uuhrothrrly and un-
kind about "a member, they almost ulway,
begin 10y being ostentHtiOuSly pipu- the
venom OF their assault CORRESPONDING To-
the heavenly liaVor Of the prelude. About
to deyour a reputation they say grace
before meat.
But | am sure there was another word
In that lust. From her entire manner |
am sure that arraiguri woman WAS re-
prntant. She made no apology. and Christ
In nowise belitted her sin. BUT her sup
plicatory behavior and her tears moved
Him, and when He stopped down to write
on the ground He wrote that mighty that
imperiul word. forgiveness
When on Sinai God wrote the law lie
wrote it with finger Of lightning on tables
ol stone, each word cut as by chi.el into
the hard granite surface But when He
writes The offence Of this woman He writes
it in dust SO that it can be easily rubbed
out, and when she repruts OF it-oh, lie
WAS mrTciful Christ. | was reading of
legend that is told in the far East about
Him. He was walking through the streets
at "a city and He saw a crowd around "A dead
dog And one man said What Il laath-
some object is that dog Yes said an
other, his ears are mHulrd aud blrr ling"
Yes, said another, "eycu his hide would
not be Of any use to the tanner" Yes
-nid another, the Odor of his carcass Is
dreadful Then Christ. standing there
said: But pearls cannot equal the white
ur.- OF his teeth" Then the people. moved
by the idea that anyone could find auv-
thing pleasant concerning the dead dog.
said. "Why. this must he Jesus of Nazn-
rtth' Rrproyed and convicted. they went
away.
But while speak of Christ of the text,
His STOPPING down writing in the dust, do
not think uuderratr the literature Of the
dust. Ii l. :hc most tremendous of all
literature. 1t Is the crandeot Of all libra
rice When Layari rNhumcd Ninev-h he
was only opening the door Of its mighty
dast. The excavations of Pompeii have
only been the unclasping of the lids Of
nations dust
Oal this mighty literature of the dust:
Where are til" remains Of S"nnarhrrib and
Attia and Epaminondas and ramerlaur
aud Traian aud Philip OF Mace lon and
Julius Caesar: Dust! Who're are the
/ guests who danced the floors Of the Alham-
bra or the Persian palaces Of AhHsuerus,
/ Dust NRur" are the musicians who
/ played, or the orators who spoke, aud the
,culptors who rhisled, and the architects
| who built in all the centuries except our
/ pwn, Dust Who're are the most Of the
| books that once entranced the world;
| Dust PIinv wrote twenty books OF his
| tory: all lost. The most Of MenunderS
| writings lost. OF ore hundred and thirty
comedies OF Plautus, all gone but twenty.
| Eurjptles wrote u hundred dramas, all
! gone hut nineteen. Eschylus wrote Il hun
| irrd dramas, att gon" Int seven. Quin-
/ lillian wrote his iAvorite book on the cor
ruption Of rlonencc. all lost Thirty
books of Tacitus lost. Dion Cassiue wrote
eighty books, only twenty remain. Bero-
sius's history all lost. Where there Is one
/ living book there are thousand dead
| books.
On this mighty literature Of the dust. It
Is not so wonderful. after all, that Christ
! chose, instead OF an inkstand, the impress
5ionAhle sand on the floor OF an ancient
temple. and, instead of hard pen, put
forth His forrilnger, with the same Kind Of
! nerve and muscle and bone and flesh as
that which makes up our own forehnc"r,
! aud wrote TIA" awful doom Of hypocrisy,
and full and complete forgiveness for re-
| pentant sinners, even the worst. We talk
about the ocean of Christ'~ mercy Put
four ships upon that ocean and let them
, sail out in opposite directions for thou.
sand years, and see il they can find the
shore Of the ocean ot the divine mercy. Let
them sail to the north and the south and
the east and the west and thei, after the
thousand wears OF voyage let them come
| back and they will reuOrt "NO shore. no
shore to the ocean Of Gods mercy"
And now can believe that which | real,
how that mother kept burning camilla
| III tIIt NlH'l'N every nISul Tor zen years,
and one night. very late, II poor waif on the
street entered. The aged woman said to
her, sit down hy the fire, 50 and the stranger
said, why DO you keep that light in the
Window The aged woman said. "That is
to light my way ward daughter when she
Ieturns Since She went away, ten years
ago, my hnjr has turned white. Folks
| blame me for worrying about her, but Won
see | am her mother. and sometimes, half a
dozen times night, | open the door and
| LOOK ont into tine darkness and cry. 'lil-
HIe. Lizzie! Bat must not tell you any
more about my trouble, for | guess, from
the way you cry you have trouble enough
of your own. Why how cold ana sir; you
seem On, my, can it he? Yes. You are
Lizzie, my own lost childl Thank God that
you are home again. Aud what IA time OF
rejoicing there was in that house that
night. And Christ again stopped down
and in the ashes Ofthat hea nth, now lighted
up, not more by the great blazing logs than
by thejoy Of reunited household, wrote
the same liberatiug words that had been
written more than eighteen hundred years
ago in the dust Of the Jerusalem temple
Forgiveness! word broad enough anC
high enough to let pass through it all the
armies of Heaven, Il million abreast, OF
white horses, nostril to nostril, flank t
flank.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
NJ. Mellne, the tor ner premier of France
l.