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

'"e'oftt' t\'h H non RHthrFCih her
chickens undrr her wings" and through
the r"tocnt hedges we would hcnr Christ
saying, II an thc rose of Sharon We
c0uld not dlp the seasoning from tho salt.
cellar without thinking OF the divine sug
g's'tion, 'Y' nrc tho salt Of the earth. but
II the salt hath lost It's SAVIOR It Is fit for
nothing but to be Cnst out and troddcn
under foot Of men.
Let us wake from our stupidity and take
the whole world rs parable. Then. #
with gun nnd pick of hounds we start of
before dawn and see the morning coming
down oil the hills tn meet us we ,vou,i
CRY out with the evangelist, "Tho day-
spring from on high hnth visited rs, or.
caught IN n snowstorm while struggling
homo, eyebrows and beard and apparel MI
covered with the whirlinR flakes, we would
cry out with David, Wash me, and
shall be whittier than snow" In n picture
gallery of Europe there is on the ceiling
On exquisite fresco, but the people having
to look straight up. 1t wearied and dizzied
them and bent their necks almost beyond
endurance, SO u 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
40, much Of the high heaven Of God s truth
Ia reflected In this world as In n mirror
and things that are above are copied by
things around us
Whit right have VIC to throw away one
Of tod's Bibles--aye, the first Bible he
ever gave the racer We talk about the Old
Testament and tho New Testament, but
the Oldest testament contains the lessons
OF tho natural world. Some people like
the New Testament 80 we'll they discard
the Old Testament. Shalfwe like the New
Testament and the Old Testament so we'll
as to depreciate the oldest-nemcly. that
which Was written before Moses was put
about on the boat Of leaves which was
oalked with asphaltum-or reject the Gen
esis that was written centuries before
Adam lost rib and gained wifeY No,
mol When Deity stoops down and writes
on the ground, let us read 1t.
The Bible In Nature.
| would have no less appreciation of the
Bible on paper that comes out of the paper
mill, but would urge appreciation of the
Bible In the grass, the Bible In the sand
hill, the Bible In the geranium, tho Bible
IN the asphodel, tho Bible in tho dust.
Some one asked al ancient king whether
he had seen tho eclipse of the sun. NO"
said no, II have SO much to study on
earth have no time to look at heaven"
And II our faculties were all awake In tho
study OF God we would not have time to
go much farther than the first grass blade
have no fear TINT natural religion will
ever contradict what we call revealed re-
ligion. have no sympathy with the fol
lowers OF Aristotle, who after the telescope
was invented would not look through it
lest 1t contradict come Of the theories OF
their great master. shall be glad TO put
against one lid Of the Bible the microscope
and against tho other lid of tho Bible the
telescope.
But when Christ stopped down and
wrote on the ground what did he writeY
The Pharisees did not stop to examine.
The towards whipped of their own con.
sciences, fed pellmell Nothing will nay
q man like an aroused conscience. DR..
Stevens, In his History Of Methodism,"
says that when Rev. Benjamin Abbott Ct
olden times, was preaching be exclaimed,
For ought know there may DO a muir
derer In this house" And man rose
from tho assemblage and started for the
door and bawled aloud. confessing to a
murder he Ind committed 10 years before.
And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded
OF their sims, took to their heels.
But what did Christ write on tho
ground' The Bible does not state, yet as
Christ nepr wrote anything except that
once you cannot blame us for wanting to
know what no really did write, but | am
certain he wrote nothing trivial or nothing
unimportant, and will you allow me to
gay that I think know what he wrote on
the groundf I Judge from the circum-
stances. He might have written other
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