Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — An Eastern Apologue. [ARTICLE]

An Eastern Apologue.

From Chambers’ Journal. Jesus, says the storv, arrived one evening at the gates of a certain city, and he sent his deciples forward to prepare supper, while be himself; intent on doing good, walked through the streets into the marcel place. And he saw at the corner of the market some people gathered together looking at some object on the ground, and he drew near to see what it might be. It was a dead dog with a halter round his neck, by which he appeared to have been draged through the dirt, and a viler, a more abject, a more unclean thing never met the eyes of man. And those that stood by looked on with abhorrence. “Faugh!” said one, stoppiug his nose; “it pollutes the air!” “How long,” said another, “shall this foul beast offend our sight?” “Look at his torn hide,” said a third; “one could not even cut a shoe out of it.” “And his ears,” said a fourth, “all draggled and bleeding.” “No doubt,” said a fifth, “he has been hanged for theiving.” And Jesus heard them, and looking down compassionately on the dead creature, he said: “Pearls are not equal to’the whiteness of his teeth.”' Then the people turned to him with amazement and said among themselves: “Who is this? This must be Jesus of Nazareth; for only he could find something to pity and approve even in a dead deg.” And being ashamed, they bowed their heads before him, and went each on his way.