The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-08-06
be Jesus Of NAZARETH Reproved and

be Jesus of NAZARETH Reproved and
convicted, they went away.
Surely this legend Of Christ is good
enough to be true! Kindness in all his
words and ways and habits! Forgiveness!
Word Of eleven letters, and some Of them
thrones and some of them palm branches.
Better have Christ write close to our
names that one word, though he write it
in dust, than to have our name cut into
monumental granite with the letters that
the storms Of 1000 years cannot oblter-
ate. Bishop Darlington had a book OF
only three leaves. The first leaf was
black, the second leaf red, the third leaf
white. The black leaf suggested sin. the
red leaf atonement, the white leaf purif-
cation. That is the whole story. God
VIII abundantly pardon.
sympathy for the Penitent.
aust not forget to say that as Christ,
STOPPING down, with his finger wrote on
the ground it is evident that his sympa-
thies are with this penitent woman and
that he has no sympathy with her hypo-
critical pursuers. Just opposite to that
is the world habit. Why didn't these
unclean Pharisees bring one Of their own
number to Christ for excoriation and
capital punishment? No, no! They over
look that in man which they demnate in
a woman, and SO the world has had for
offending woman scourges and objurga-
ton, and for just one offense she becomes
an outcast, while for men whose lives
have been sodomic for twenty years the
world swings open Its doors Of brilliant
welcome, and they may sit In high places,
Unlike the Christ OF my text, the world
writes a mans misdemeanor In dust, but
chisels woman's offense with great cap
ltals upon ineffaceab Bile marble
For foreign lords and princes, whose
names cannot even be mentioned in re-
spectacle circles abroad because they are
walking laZarettoS of abomination, some
of our American princesses Of fortune
wait and at the first beck sail out with
them into the blackness Of darkness for1
ever. And in what are called higher Girl
cles Of society there is now not only tho
imitation of foreign dress and foreign
manners, but an imitation Of foreign dis
soluteness. l like foreigner, and I like
an American, but the sickest creature on
the earth is an American playing the for
eisner. Society needs to be reconstruct,
ed on this subject Treat them alike.
masculine crime and feminine crime. Ia
you cut the one in granite cut them both
in granite. If you write the one in dust
write the other in dust. mo, no." says
the world; let woman go down and led
man go up. What is that l hear plash.
ing into the Hudson or Potomac at mid.
night: And then there is a gurgle as of
strangulation, and all is still Never mind
1t is only n woman too discouraged to
live. Let the mills of the cruel world
grind right on.
But while | speak Of Christ Of the text
his STOPPING down writing in the dust. do
not think L underrate the literature OF the
the dust. 1t Is the most tremendous of
all literature. 1t is the greatest of ali
libraries. When Layard exhumed Nine.
web, he was only opening the door Of its
mighty dust. The excavations Of Pompeit
have only been the uncasping Of the lids
of a volume OF a nations dust. When Adj
miral Farragut and his friends visited
that rcsurrected city. the house of Balbo.
who had been one Of its chief citizens in
its prosperous days, was opened and a
table was spread in that house which
$50 years had been buried by volcanic
eruption, and Farragut and his guests
walked over the exquisite mosaics and
under the beautiful frescO, and it almost
seemed like being entertained by those
who eighteen centuries ago had turned to
dust.
BoundIess Mercy.
Oh, this mighty literature Of the dust.
It is not so wonderful, after all that
Christ chose instead of an inkstand the
imprcSsionablc sand on the floor of an an
cicnt temple, and instead Of hard pen
put forth his forefinger with the same
kind of nerve and muscle and bone and
flesh as that which makes I'D orr own
foreiinger, and wrote the awful doom Of
hypocrisy, and full and complete forgive
ness for repentant sinners, even the
worst We talk about the ocean Of
Christ's mercy. Put four ships upon that
ocean and let them sail out in opposite
directions for 1000 years aud see if they
can find the shore Of the ocean Of the d.
vine mercy. Let them sail TO the north
and the south and the east and the west.
and then after the 1000 years of voyage
let them come back and they will report,
NO shore, no shore to the ocean Of Gods
mercy
Cartwright