Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 10, Number 48, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 20 February 1889 — Page 2

WHAT DID HE WRITE? Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Taira age, D. D. Christ Stooping Down and Writing on the Ground—Two Graphic Words— Full and Complete Forgiveness for Repentant Sinners. “The Literature of the Dust” was the subject of Dr. Talmage's recent sermon. He took his text from the sixth verse of the eighth chapter of John: “Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.” The preacher said: A Mohammedan mosque stands now where once stood Herod's temple, the scene of my text. Solomon's temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar thundered it down. Zorobabel’s temple had stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take our places in a temple that Herod built because he was fond of great architecture and he wanted the preceding temples to seem insignificant. Put eight or ten modem cathedrals together and they would not equal that structure. It covered nineteen acres. There were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar and silver tables on which stood golden cups, and there were carvings exquisite and inscriptions resplendent, glittering balustrades and ornamented gateways. The building of this temple kept ten thousand workmen busy forty-six years. In that stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence sat Christ, and a listening throng stood about Him when a wild disturbance took place. A group of men are pulling and pushing along a woman who had committed the worst crime against society. When they have brought her in front of Christ they ask that He sentence her to death by stoning. They are a critical, merciless, disingenuous crowd. They want to get Clprjst into controversy and public reprehension. If He say: “Let her die,” they will charge him with cruelty. If He let her go they will charge Him with being in complicity with wickedness. Whichever way He does they would howl at Him. Then occurs a scene which has not been sufficiently regarded. He leaves the jlounge or bench on which he was sitting afid goes down on one knee or both knees, afid with the forefinger of His right hand He begins to write in the dust of the floor word after word. But they were not to be diverted or hindered. They kept on demanding that He settle this case of trans gression until He looked up and told' them that they might themselves begin the woman’s assassination if the complainant who had never done any thing wrong himself would qpen the fire. “Go ahead, but be sure that the man who flings the first missile is immaculate.” Then He resumed writing with his finger in the dust of the floor, word after word. Instead of looking over His shoulder to see what He had written the scoundrels skulked away. Finally the whole place is cleared of pursuers, antagonists and plaintiffs, and when Christ has finished this strange chirography in the dust he looks up and finds the woman all alone. The prisoner is the only one of the courtroom left, the judges, the police, the prosecuting attorneys having cleared out. Christ is the victor, and He says to the woman: “Where are the prosecutors in this case? Are they all gone? Then I discharge you; go and sin no more.” I have always wondered what Christ wrote on the ground. For do you realize that is the only time that He ever wrote at all? I know that Eusebius says that Christ once wrote a letter to Abgarus, the King of Edessa, but there is no good evidence of such a correspondence. The wisest being the world ever saw and the one who had more to say than any one who ever lived, never writing a book, or a chapter, or a page, or a paragraph, or a word on parchment. Nothing but this literature of the dust, and one sweep of a brush or one breath of a wind obliterated that forever. Among all the rolls of the volumes of the first library founded at Thebes there was not one scroll of Christ. Among the seven hundred thousand books of the Alexandrian library, which by the infamous decree of Caliph Omar were used as fuel to heat the four thousand baths of the city, not one sentence had Christ penned. Among all the infinitude of volumes now standing in the libraries of Edinburgh, the British Museum, or Berlin or Vienna, or the learned depositories of all nations, not one word written directly by the finger of Christ. All that He ever wrote He wrote in dust, uncertain, shifting, vanishing dust. My text says He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Standing straight up a man might write on the ground with a staff, but if with his fingers he would write in the dust he must bend clear over. Aye, he must get at least on one knee or he can not write on the ground. Be not surprised that He stooped down. His whole life was a stooping down. Stooping down from castle to bam. Stooping down from celestial homage to mobocratic jeer. From residence above the stars to where a star had to fall to designate His landing place. From Heaven’s front door to the world's back gate. From writing in round and silvered letters of consteUation and galaxy on the blue scroll of Heaven to writing on the ground in the dust which the feet of the crowd had left in Herod's temple. If in January you have ever stepped out of a Prince’s conservatory that had Mexican cactus and magnolias in full bloom into the outside air 10 degrees below zero you may get some idea of Christ's change of atmosphere from celestial to terrestrial How many Heavens there are I know not, but there are at least three, for Paul was “caught up into the third Heaven.” Christ came down from the highest Heaven to the second Heaven, and down from second Heaven to first Heaven, down swifter than meteors ever fell down amidst stellar splendors that Himself eclipsed, down through clouds, through atmospheres, throligh appalling space, down to where there was no lower depth. From being waited on at the banquet of the skies to the broiling of fish for His own breakfast on the banks of the lake. From emblazoned chariots of eternity to the saddle of a mule’s back. The homage cherubic, seraphic, arehangefic, to the paying of sixty-two and one-half cents of tax to Caesar. From the deathless country to a tomb built to hide human dissolution The uplifted wave of Galilee was high, but He had to come down before with His feet He could touch it, and the whirlwind that rose above the billow was higher yet, but He had to come down before, with His lip. He could kiss it into quiet. Bethlehem a-stooping down. Nazareth a-stooping down. Death between two burglars a-stooping down. Yes, it was in consonance with humiliations that had gone before and with self-abnegations that came after, when on that memorable day in Herod’s, temple He stooped down and wrote on tiie ground. Whether the words he was writing were in Greek or Latin or Hebrew I can not say, for he knew all those languages. But He is still stooping down, and with His finger writing on tile ground; fn ehe winter in letters •f crystals, in the spring* in letters of flowers, in summer in golden letters of harvest, in autumn in letters of Are on fallen leaves. Haw it would sweeten up

and enrich and emblazon this world could we see Christ’s caligraphy all over it. This world was not flung out Into space thousands of years ago and then left to look out for itself. It is still under the Divine care. Christ never for a half second takes His hand off of it, or It would soon be a shipwrecked world, a defunct world, an obsolete world, an abandoned world, a dead world. “Let there be light” was said at the beginning.— Apd Christ stands under the wintry skies and'saym Let there be snowflakes to enrlcli'-'the earth; and under the clouds of spring and says: Come, ye blossoms, and make redolent the orchards; and In September dips the branches Into the vat of beautiful colors and swings them into the hazy air. No whim of mine is thi% “Without Him was not any thing made that made.” Christ writing on the ground)® If we could see His hand in all the parsing seasons, how itjwould Ulumine the world! All verdure and foliage would be allegoric, and again we would hear Him say as of old: “ Consider the lilies of the field how they grow;” and we would not hear the whistle of a quail or the cawing of a raven or the roundelay of a brown-thresher without saying: “Behold the fowls of the air, they gather not into bams, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them;” and a Dominic hen of the barnyard could not cluck for her brood yet He would hear Christ saying as of old: “How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her clpckens under her wings;” and through the redolent hedges we would hear Christ saying: “lam the Bose of Sharon;” we could not dip the seasoning from* the salt-cellar thinking of the Divine suggestion: “Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost its savor it is fit for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.’’ Let us wake up from our stupidity and take the whole world as a parable. ’ Then if with gun and pack of hounds we start off before dawn and see the morning coming down off the hills to meet us, wd would cry out with the evangelist: “The day-spring from on high hath visited us;” or caught in a snow-storm, 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 whiter than snow.” In a picture gallery of Europe there is on the ceiling an exquisite fresco, but people havifig to look straight up it wearied and dizzied them and bent their necks almost beyond endurance, so a 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 so much of ail the Heaven of God’s truth is reflected in this world as in a mirror, and the things that are above are copied by things all around us. What right have we to throw away one of God's Bibles, aye, the first Bible He ever gave the race? 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 well they discard the Old Testament. Shall we like the New Testament and the Old Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest; namely, that which was written before Moses was put afloat on the boat of leaves which was calked with asphaltum; or reject the Genesis and the Revelation that were written centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No, no; when Deity stoops down and writes on the ground let us read it. I would have no less appreciation of the Bible on paper that comes out of the paper-mill, but I would urge appreciation of the Bible in the grass, the Imtle in the sand-hill, the Bible in the geranium, the Bible in the asphodel, the Bible in the dust. Someone asked an ancient King whether he had seen the eclipse of the sun. “ No,” said he, “I have so much to do on earth I 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 go much further than the first grass-blade. I have no fear that natural religion will ever contradict what we call revealed religion. I have no sympathy with the followers of Aristotle, who after the telescope was invented would not look through it less it contradict some of the theories of their great master. I 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 stooped down and wrote on the ground what did He write? The pharisees did not stop to examine. The cowards, whipped of their own consciences, fled pell-mell. Nothing will flay a 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 I know there may be a murderer in this house,” and a man rose in the aseniblage and started for the door and bawled aloud, confessing to a murder he had committed fifteen years before. And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took to their heels. But what did Christ write on the ground? The Bible does not state. Yet. as Christ never wrote any thing except that once, you can not blame us for wanting to know what He really did write. But I am certain He wrote nothing trivial or nothing unimportant. And you will allow me to say that I think I know what He wrote on the ground? I judge from the circumstances. He might have written other things, but kneeling there in the temple, surrounded by a pack of hypocrites who were a self-appointed constabulary, and having in His presence a persecuted woman who evidently was very penitent for her sins, I am sure He wrote two words, both of them graphic and tremendous and reverberating. And the one word was hypocrisy and the other word was forgiveness. From the way these Pharisees ands cribes vacated the premises and got out into the fresh air, as Christ, with ’ just one ironical sentence, unmasked them, I know they were first-class hypocrites. It was then as it is now. The more faults and inconsistencies people have of their .own, the more severe and censorious are they about the faults of others. Here they are—twenty stout men arresting and arraigning one weak woman. Magnificent business to be engaged in. They wanted the fun of seeing her faint away under a heavy judicial sentence from Christ, and then, after she had been taken outside the city and fastened at the foot of a precipice, the scribes and pharisees wanted the satisfaction of each coming and dropping a big stone on her head for that was the style of capital punishment that they asked for. Some people have taken the responsibility of saying that Christ never laughed. But I think as He saw those ■ men drop every thing, chagrined, mortified, exposed, and go out quicker than they came in. He must have laughed. At any rate it makes me laugh to read of it. All of these libertines dramatizing indignation against impurity. Blind bats lecturing on optics. A flock of crows on their way up from a carcass denouncing carrion. Yes, I think that one word written on the ground that day by the finger of Christ was the awful word hypocrisy. But I am sure there was another word in that dust. From her entire manner I am sure that arraigned woman was repentant. She made no apology and Christ ifi no wise belittled her sin. But her supplicatory behavior and her tears moved Hfm and when He stooped down to write on the ground He wrote that mighty, that imperial word, forgiveness.

When on SinNH God wrote the law He wrote it with finger of lightning on tables of stone, each word cut as by a chisel into the hard granite surface. But when He writes the offense of tills woman He writes it in dust so that it can be easily rubbed out when she repents of it. Oh, He was a merciful Christ! I was reading of a legend that is told in the far East about Him. He was walking through the streets of a city and He saw a crowd around a dead dog. And one man said: “What a loathsome object is that dog!’ “Yes,” said another, “his ears are mauled and bleeding.’’ “Yes,” said another, “even his hide would not be of any use to the tanner.” “Yes,” said another, “the odor of his carcass is dreadful.” Then Christ, standing there, said: “But pearls can not equal the whiteness of lfls teeth.” Then the people, moved by the idea that any one could find any thing pleasant concerning a dead dog, said: “Why, this must be Jesus of Nazareth.” Reproved and convicted they went their way. Surely this legend of Christ is good enough to be true. Kindness in all His words and ways and habits. Forgiveness.

I must not forget to say that as Christ, stooping down, with His finger wrote on the ground it is evident that His sympathies are with this penitent woman and that he has no sympathy with her hypocritical pursuers. Just opposite to that is the world’s habit. Why didn't these unclean Pharisees bring one of their own number to Christ for excoriation and capital punishment. No, no; they overlook that in a man which they damnate in a woman. And so the world has had for offending women scourges and objurgation, 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 aud they may sit in Legislatures and Senates and Parliaments or on thrones. Unlike the Christ of my text the world writes a man’s misdemeanor in dust, but chisels a woman’s offenses with great capitals upon ineffaceable marble. For foreign Lords and Princes whose can not even be mentioned in respectable circles abroad because they are walking lazarettos of abomination, our American princesses of fortune ..wait and at the first beck sail out- with them into the blackness of darkness forever. And in what are called higher circles of society there is now not only the imitation of foreign dress and foreign manners, -but an imitation of foreign dissoluteness. I like an Englishman and I like an American, but the sickest creature on earth is an American playing the Englishman. Society needs to be reconstructed on this subject. Treat them alike, masculine crime and feminine crime. If you cut the one in granite cut them both iu granite ; if you write the one in dust write the other in dust. No, no, says the world, let woman go down and let man go up. What is that I hear splashing into the East river at midnight, and then there is a gurgle as of strangulation and all is still. Never mind. It is only a woman too discouraged to lire. Let the mills of the cruel world grind right on. But while I speak of Christ of the text, His stooping down and writing in the dust, do not think I underrate the literature of the dust. It is the most solemn and, tremendous of all literature. It is the greatest of all liberties. When Layard exhumed Nineveh he was only opening the door of its mighty dust. The excavations of Pompeii have only been the unclasping of the lids of a vohune of a nation's dust. When Admiral Farragut and his friends a few years ago visited that resurrected 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 eighteen hundred and ten years has 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. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust. Where are the remains of Sennacherib and Attila and Epaniinondas and Tamerlane and Trojan and Philip MaeedJOll and Julius Caesar? Dust! Where are the heroes who fought on both sides at Chseronea, at Hastings, at Marathon, at Cressy; of the 110,000 men who fought at Agincourt, of the 200,000 men who faced death at Jena, of the 400,000 whose armor glittered in the sun at Wagram, of the 1,000,000 men under Darius at Arbella, of the 2,041,000 men under Xerxes at Thermopyhe? Dust! Where are the guests who danced the floors of the Alhambra, or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerus? Dust! Where are the musicians who played and the orators who spoke, and the sculptors who chiseled, and the architects who built in all the centuries except our own? Dust! The greatest library of the world, that which has the widest shelves and the longest aisles and the most multitudinous volumes and the vastest wealth, is the underground library. It is the royal library, the continental library, the hemispheric library, the planetary library, the library of the dust. Aud all these library cases will be <4pened and all these scrolls unrolled and all these volumes unci asped. and as easily as in your library or mine we take up a book, blow the dust off of it, and turn over its pages, so easily will the Lord of the resurrection pick up out of this library of dust every volume of human life and open it and read it and display it. And the volume will be rebound, to be set in the royal library of the King’s palace or in the prison library of the self-destroyed. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust! It is not so wonderful after all that Christ chose instead of an inkstand the impressionable sand on the floor of an ancient temple, and instead of a hard pen put forth His forefinger with the same kind of nerve and muscle and bone and flesh as that which maxes up our own forefinger and wrote the awful doom of hypocrisy and full and complete forgiveness for repentant sinners, even the worst.

And now I can believe that which 1 read, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window every night for ten years, and one night very late a poor waif of the street entered. The aged vfoman said to her: “Sit 'down by the fire,” and the stranger said: “Why do you keep that light in the window?” The aged woman said: “That is to "light my wayward daughter when she returns. Since she went away ten years ago my hair has turned white. Folks blame me for worrying about her, but you see I am her mother, and sometimeshalf a dozen times a night I open the door and look out into the darkness and cry: ‘Lizzie! Lizzie!’ But I must not tell you any more about my trouble, for I guess from the way you cry you have trouble enough of your own. Why, how cold and sick you seem! Oh, my! can it be? Yes, you are Lizzie, my own lost child. Thank God that you are home again!” And what a time of rejoicing there was in that house that night. And Christ again stooped down and in the ashes of that hearth now lighted up not more by the great blazing logs than by the joy of a reunited household wrote the same liberating words that He had written more than eighteen hundred years ago in the dust of Jerusalem temple: Forgiveness! A word broad enough and high enough to let pass through it all the armies of Heaven, a million abreast, on white horses, nostril to nostril, flank to flank.

STATE INTELLIGENCE. The Legislature. Indianapolis, Feb. 9.—Senate.— The Senate devoted the day to considering several sections of the new election bill. Adjourned until Monday. House. —Willard’s bill limiting bequests for charitable or religious purposes to one* lourth of the estate, passed the House. The bill appropriating $187,000 for the erection of buildings for the School of Feeble Minded Children, was made a special order for Monday afternoon. Indianapolis, Feb. 11.—Senate—Bills introduced : To authorize towns and cities to enforce ordinances to abate nuisances; to authorize boards of school commissioners of cities having 80,000 or more inhabitants, to levy a tax; for the better protection of highways—restricting heavily loaded wagons; to provide for the care of State-hbuse—by a superintendent to be elected by the General Assembly: to amend section 501, R. S. of 1881, concerning expert witnesses; to amend section 24 of an act concerning taxation of steamboats and other water craft. A majority of the members of the Judiciary Committee submitted two reports favoring the indefinite postponement of two bills—one to authorize judges of the supreme court to employ secretaries, and the other to repeal Section 5,317 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, which provides that no city or town shall charge more than SICO for liquor license in addition to the sum already provided for. A minority of said committee recommended the passage of both bills. The election bill was then considered. Houss.—A bill repealing the statute making it a criminal offense to intimidate men from working or to interfere with the running ol trains was ordered engrossed. Bills introduced* Concerning telegraph and telephone companies; concerning the use of telephones: concerning the indebtedness of cities of ovei 4,500 and less than 16,000; to provide for the furnishing of school-hooks; to amend Sections 4369 and 4371, Revised Statutes, concerning the loaning of school funds. The bill appropriating $l9O 003 for buildings for the feeble-minded children, with majority and minority reports thereon, was read. After remarks by Messrs. Darnell, Sbambaugh. Fields. White and Reynolds, it was ordered engrossed, and made a special order for next We dnesday. Indianapolis, Feb. 12.—The Senate passed a bill appropriating $187,500 for the coostructior of anew building for the School for Feeble Minded Children, to be erected at Ft. Wayne. The new election bill was ordered to engross ment. In the House this morning Mr. Reynolds introduced a bill prohibiting candidates front paying political assessments: also,one giving women the right to vote at all munici pal and school elections. He was also successful in having the Local Option bill made a special order for to-morrow and it presenting a monster petition from Wayne County people, praying that the sale of tobacce to boys under sixteen years of age be prohib ited. This afternoon the House passed the bills appropriating $60,000 with which to build s fire-proof structure for the State University, and also $;0,000 to build a steam laundry fortht State Reform School. Indianapolis. Feb. 13.—Senate—The Sea ate spent the entire day debating the bill proposing to create a department of geology and natural resources. It proposes to take from the Governor the power to appoint the geologist, the mine inspector and the oil inspector. It provides* that the geologist shall be electee by the General AsSembly, and the mine and ol inspectors shall be appointed by him. Tht mine inspector is given authority to employ at assistant. The expenses of the department are limited to SIO,O >0 annually. The bill finally was passed to engrossment. The election bill was read a third time, and will be passed in the morning. House.—Local option met its fate in the House this morning. The majority report, rec ommending the indefinite postponement ot the bill, was adopted by a vote of fifty-five to forty-one. iwo Republicans. Covert and Nugent, of Evansville, voting with the Democrats. The House passed the Senate bill appropriating $187,000 to be used in constructing a Home sot Feeble-minded Children. The deficiency appropriation bill was also passed, and a bill was passed under a suspension of the rules, authorizing the State Treasurer to borrow S3UO,000 to pay the expenses of the Generel Assembly. The remainder of the day in the House was spent in considering bills on second reading, A great many were Indefinitely postponed, and several unimportant ones engrossed Indianapolis, Feb. 14.—Senate—The election bill introduced by Senator Andrews passed to-day by a vote ot 35 to 12. Only one Democratic Senator opposed the hill, while eleven or more Republicans voted for It. The bill now goes to the House, where its passage is virtually conceded. It embraces the principal features of the Australian law, previously outlined. The Senate then took up the Supreme Court commission bill, and after prolonged discussion passed it to its third reading. The bill has already passed the House, and provides for the election by the General Assembly of five Commissioners to assist the Supreme Court in transaction of its business. The court is now two years behind on its docket. Several unimportant bills were introduced, House.—Langloff s bill passed, making eight hours constitute a legal day’s work for all classes of mechanics and laborers, excepting those engaged in agricultural or domestic labor. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of the act may be fined SSOO. A bill was passed making a separate judicial circuit of Clark and Floyd Counties. The bill fixing the Supreme Court Reporter’s salary at $4,000 per annum and depriving him of all fees was ‘passed to engrossment. Heretofore this office has been estimated to net a compensation of SIO,OOO. Ex-Governor Porter and General Harrison both held this lucrative office in years past. Hon. John L. Griffiths (Republican), a leading young lawyer of this city, was elected -ast November to succeed Hon. John W. Kerr (Democrat), and wist assume the office in a few weeks. Several local bills were introduced. Indianapolis, Feb. 15.—Senate.—The Senate passed a bill appropritaing $75,000 for the use of Purdue University. Several bills were Introduced and referred. House.— The Pleasant school text-book bill was discussed in the House, and referred to a select committee of seven, with instructions to report a school-book bill on Monday. A bill was passed providing for the election by the General Assembly of three Police Commissioners for cities having more than 29,000 inhabitants. (Indianapolis and Evansville). The shaft in a coal mino at Mitchell, Ind., broke and precipitated the cage ninety-five feet to the bottom. One person was killed and two seriously injured. Frank Kiser, of West Point, was found frozen to death between Lafayette and his home. He is supposed to have been in a state of intoxication. Vincennes is in a legal squabble over the publication of the delinquent-tax list in a Sunday newspaper. The paper contends that the publication complied with the law, while the authorities rule differently. A test case will be made. < A reward of $1,901) is offered for the arrest of Charles Smith, the murderer under sentence of death, who recently escaped from the Posey County jail. After a long fight the saloons have gained a foothold In Sheridan. Mrs. Naomi Lambeth, of Lafayette, has brought suit against William P. Kirkpatrick for breach of promise, claiming $6,000 damages. Francis Murphy, the temperance worker, is having a large attendance at his meetings in Anderson. He will make that place his headquarters for some time to come. Fort Wayne will have natural gas. It will be piped a distance of lorty-five miles.

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