The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-01

ing on q raven or the NQundelAy Of q brow,
thrasher. without saying: 'Behold th
fowls Of the air. They gather not Il
barns, yot your Heavenly Father fectlet
them, and 9 Dominic hen Of the barn
yard could not oluck for her brood but W
would hear Christ saying, as of old, How
often would have gathered thy childrel
together, even as a hen gathereth he
chickens under her WINGS" and through
the redolent hedges we would hear Chris
saying, ~ am the rose Of Sharon" W,
could not dip the seasoning from the salt
cellar without thinking of tho divine sug
gestion, "Ye are the salt Of the earth, bu
:. If the salt hath lost its SAVIOR 1t Ia At fol
nothing but to be cast out and troddeI
under foot of men," s.,-
Lat us wake from our stupidity andtakt
the whole world as a parable. Then, II
with gun and pack Of hounds we Start of
before dawn and SEQ the morning coming
down of the hills to meet us VIC would
cry out with the evangelist, 1.-THE day
spring from on high hath vicssed us, or,
caught In snowstorm while struggling
home, eyebrows and beard and apparel all
covered with the whirling flakes, we would
cry out with David, Wash me, and I
shall be whittier than snow" In picture
gallery Of Europe there is on the ceiling
an exquisite fresco, but the people having
to look straight up, 1t wearied and dizzied
them and bent their necks almost beyond
endurance, so great looking glass was
| put near the floor, and now visitors only
need to look easily down into this mirror,
and they SEQ the fresco at their feet. And
60, much of tho high heaven of Gods truth
Is reflected in this world. as in mirror,
and things that are above are copied by
things around us.
What right have we to throw away one
OF Gods Bibles-aye, tho first Bible he
ever gave the racer We talk about the Old
Testament and the New Testament, but
the Oldest testament contains the lessons
OF the natural world. Some people like
the New Testament so we'll they discard
the Old Testament. Shall we like the New
Testament and the Old Testament SO well
az to depreoiate the oldest-namely, that
which was written before Moses was put
afioat on the boat of leaves which was
calked with asphaltum-or reject the Cen
esis that was written centuries before
Adam lost rib and gained wifep No,
no! When Deity stoops down and writes
on the ground, let us read 1t.
Tho Bible In Nature.
would have no less appreciation of the
Bible, on paper that comes out OF the paper
Fill, but would urge appreciation Of the |
bible IN the grass, the Bible In the sand |
hill, tho Bible in tho geranium, the Bible |
in the asphodel, the Bible In the dust.
Some one asked an ancient king whether |
he had seen the eclipse of the sun. NO."
said he. II have so much to study on
earth have no time to look at heaven"
And If our faculties were all awake in the
study of God we would not have time to
60 much farther than tho first grass blade.
have no fear that 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 IL
lest 1t contradict some Of the theories of
their great master. shall be glad to put
against one lid of the Bible the microscope
and against the other lid Of the Bible the
telescope.
But when Christ stopped down and
wrote on the ground what did he writer
The Pharisees did not stop to examine.
The towards, whipped of their own con-
Sciences fed pellmell. Nothing will fay
D man like an aroused conscience. DR..
Stevens, in his History Of Methodism,"
says that when Rev. Benjamin Abbott of
olden times, was preaching he exclaimed
For aught know there may be a mur-
1erer In this house." And man rose
rom the assemblage and started for the
ioor and bawled aloud, confessing to q
murder he had committed 10 years before.
And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded
II their sins, took to their heels.
n,,k vl~k L-l-
,roundp The Biblo does not state, yet as {
christ never wrote anything except that !
nee you cannot blame us for wanting to !
NOW what he really did write, but I am :
ertain he wrote nothing trivial or nothing /
and will you allow me to
ay that think know what be wrote on .
no groundp Judge from the circum- /
tances He might have written other =
hings, but, kneeling there in the temple, b
urrounded by q pack of hypocrites who s
'ere self appointed constabulary and t
aving In his presence prosecuted wom- b
u, who evidently was very penitent for I
er sins, am sure he wrote two words, y
9th of them graphic and tremendous and a
'vcrberating, and the one word was "hy- u
ocrisy," and the other word was "for- q
iveness." ii
From the way these Pharisees and Ii
ribes vacated the premises and got out OF
ito the fresh air as Christ, with just one W
onical sentence, unmarked them know re
icy were first class hypocrites 1t was al
zen as 1t is now. The more faults and "
constituencies people have of their own a,
% more severe and censorlous ore they L.
'out the faults Of others. Here they are, Iii
stout men arresting and arraigning one az
eak woman! Magnificent business to til
engaged inl They wanted the fun Of tn
cling her faint away under heavy judi In
Il sentence from Christ, and then, after
0 had been taken outside of the city and
stoned at tho foot of the precipice, the r.
'ibes and Pharisees wanted the satisfao- n,
IN of each coming and dropping a big in
me on her head, for that was the style cit
capital punishment that they asked for. ~
me people have taken the responsibility NJ
saying that Christ never laughed, but ne
nix as he saw those men drop every tol
n.y. chagrined, mortified, exposed, and ny
out quicker than they came In he must ne ne
70 laughed. At any rate, 1t makes me W. W.
gh to read Of 1t. All Of those liber- ~
es dramatizing indignation against I'm. W.
rityl Blind bats lecturing on opticsl ~
AVN Va oioWs vi tueIr way up IrOIn |
cass denouncing carrionl 10
Rebuking Hypocrisy. ~,
Yes, think that one word written on ba,
ground that day by the finger of Christ an.
) the awful word hypocrisy. What pre-
sions to sanctity are the part of those rea
'ocritical Pharisees! When the fox be- car
s to pray, look out for your chickens. YES
. Of the cruel magnates of olden times of
going to excommunicate one of the soi
rtyrs, and no began In the usual form the
In the name Of God. Amen" "Stop" iio
3 the martyr. Don't say in the name sal
God! Yet how many outragcs are dn,
cticed under the garb Of religion and we,
City When In synods and conferences tur
listers Of the gospel are about to say inc
ething unbrotherly and unkind about or
lember, they almost always begin by nia
70 ostentatiously plous, tho venom Of thu
r assault corresponding to tho heaven Bu
avor Of the prelude. About to deyour NV
putation, they say grace before meal. cry
But am sure there was another word WI
nat dust. From her entire manner NV
sure that arraigncd woman was re- NV,
ant. She made no apology, and Christ hon
owise belittled her sin. But her sup io,c
atOry behavior and hcr tnarc ,noyod |