The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-08-11

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graphic and Tremendous and rever
bsrating. And the one word waa
hypocrisy. aud the other word was
forgiveness
From The aay these Pharisess and
Seribes vacated The premises end g.,
out into the fresh air. ss Christ with
just one ir0niual sentence unmasksd
them I know they were hrstclass
-hYp8crites II was then as 81 Is now.
The more faults and Inconsistencies
people have Of their own. the more se-
we're aud csasoriUus are they about tire
faults Of others Here they are-9J
stout men arrestiug and arr8igniuE
one weak s5mau. Magnificent bust.
ness 10 be engaged iHl They wanted
the fun 81 seeing her faint away under
a heavy judicial sentence from Christ,
and then, after she had been taken
outside Of the city and fastened
at the foot Of the p~rectpice, the
Serlbes aud Pharisees wanted the sat-
~isiaetion Of each coming and dropping
q big stone on her head, for that was
the style OF capital punishment that
they asked for Some paople have
taken tbe r-esnoueibiIity Of s~agipg chad
Christ never laughed But / think as
lie saw those men drop everything,
chagrined mortified avn,sed and %
out ouielfar fbap thsg ann H. Ia
must have laugbed Al apg rate III
makes nd laugh to read ofit All OF
those ~libertines dramatfzing fndigua.
ton against impurltyf Blind bats lee.
turing on optiesl A dock Of crows on.
their way 10 from a carcass denoupc-
ing carbon
But / am sure there was another
word ia that dust. From her entire
manner l am sure that arraigned wom-
an was repentant She made no
apology, aud Christ In no wise belittled
her sin, But her supplfcatory behavior
and her teurs moved him, and when ne
stopped down to write on the ground
He wrote that mighty, that imperial
word, forgiveness
When on Sinai God wrote the law,
lie wrote ID with Bpper Of LIGHTNING
on tables Of stone, each word as by 4
chisel into the hard granite surlacg
But when He writes the oFenss Of tins
woman He writes II in the dust so
that Ii can be easily rubbed out. and
when She repents Of it.. oh. He was a
merciful Christ! L was reading of a
legend that is told in the FAR east
about Him. He was walking through
the streets of a citv and He saw a
crowd around a dead dog. And one
man said: "lyhat a loatbsome object
Is that dogm yes. said another.
'his ears are mauled and bleeding.
Yes said another. ..eyen his hide
would mot be OF apv use 10 the tanner. -
''Yess, said another. the odor Of bis
carcass is dreadfulm Then Christ.
standing there. said: But pearls can
not equal the Wilderness Of his teeth. -
Then the people, moved bv the idea
that anyone couldHnd ANYTHING Meas
ant concerning the dead dog. said:
,'Why. this must be ,Cesusof Nazaratbtp
Reproved and convicted. thev went
away
OH this mighty literature of the
dust. Where are the remains of Sem
nacherib, aud Attila, and Epaminon-
das, and Tamerlaue, and Traian,
and Philip Of Macedon, and julius
Cmsar2 Dust! Where are the heroes
who fought on both sides at Chaeronea,
at Hastings, at Marathon. at Cressy,
OF the 10000 men who fought at Agiu-
court, of the 100000 men who faced
death at jena, Of the 400, 600 whose
armor glittered in the sun az Wap-
ram, 90 the t,O0O,600 men under
Darius az Arbela, Of the 2,64f,UO
men under Xerxes at Thermopv-
lae2 Dust! Where are the guests
who danced on the floors OF the Al
hambra or the Persian palaces OF
Ahasuerus2 Dust Where are the
musicians who played, or the orators
who spoke, and the seulptors who
chiseled, and the architects who built,
in all the centuries except our ownq
Dust Where are most Of the books
that once -entranced the world? Dust
Pliny wrote 20 books Of history; ali
lost. The most Of Meander's writings
lost. OF 1870 comedies of Plautus, all
gone but 90. Euripldes wrote 100.
dpamas, all gone but 10. Esehylus
wrote 100 dramas, all gone but
4 Yarro wrote the labori-
Gus biographies Of 700 Romans.
not q fragment left. Qnintilian wrote
his favorite book on the corruption of
e-lo1uenee AN Inst phirtv bo,go a.
rapitps Iost Dion Caasius yg,,ota N
books onIv b remoin Rerosirs, M.
tory an TIA Wbers tbarn ~. H.
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sbeIyes and longest aisIas ana tbo 80
mnftindinous yolpmss ma tbs 1850
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