Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-08-03
THE MOB OF PHARISEES.
Christ Rebuked Them When They
Brought to Him Magdaleu.
The Only Sentence He Ever Wrote was
Written In Dust. and with HIS Fin
ger, Bnt II Saved a Human
Life-Tslmage's Sermon.

Lue-Ialmage's sermon
The text of DIR. Talmage SUNDAY was
John viii. 6; Jesus stooped down and
with his finger wrote on the ground. e"
You must take your shoes off and
put on the especial slippers provided
at the door IL YOU would enter the Mo-
hammedan mosque, which stands now
where once stool Herod's temple
the scene OF my text. Solomon's tenn
pie had stood there, but Nebuchadnez-
Ear had Numbered it down Zerubba-
bells temple had stood there, but that
had been Frustrated. Now we take
our places in temple that Herod
built, because he was fond of great
architecture, and he wanted the pre-
ceding temples 10 seem insignificant
Put eight or ten modern c-thedrals to-
gether and they would not equal that
structure. IL covered 10 acres There
were marble pillars. supporting roofs
OF cedar and silver tables, on which
stood golden cups. and there were
carvings exquisite. AMI inscriptions
Respondent glittering balustrades
and ornamental gatewayS The build
ing of this temple kept 10, 600 work
men busy 10 years
Ia that stupendous pile of pomp and
magniticsncs sat Christ, and listen
ing throng stood about Him when a
wild disturbance took place. a group
of men are pulling and pushing along
woman who has committed crime
against society. When they have
brought her in front OF Christ. they
ask that he sentence her TO death by
stoning They are critical. merci-
less, 0isingenuous crowd They want
TO get Christ into controversy and
public apprehension. Ii He say. Let
her die they viii charge Him with
cruelty. Ii He let her go they will
charge Him with being in COMPLETELY
with wickedness. Whichever way He
does. they would howl at Him.
Then occurs scene which has not
been sufficiently regarded He leaves
the lounge or bench on which He is
sitting. and goes down on one knee. or
both knees, and with the orefinrer Of
His right hand He begins 10 write in
the dust of the door. word after word.
But ihey We're not TO be diverted or
hindcred. They kept on demanding
that He settle this case of transpres-
sion, until He looked up and told
them they might themselves be-
gin the woman's assassination. if
the complainant who had never done
anything wrong himself would open
the fire Go ahead. but be sure the
man who filings the first missile is i'm
maeulate. Then lie resumed writing
with his finger in the dust OF the floor.
word for word. Instead of looking
over His shoulder TO see what He had
written, the scoundrels skulked away.
Finally, the whole place is clear of
pursuers, antagonists and plaintiffs
and when Christ had finished this
strange chirography in the dust lie
looks MP and finds the women all alone.
The prisoner is the only one of the
courtroom left the judges. the police.
the prosecuting attorney having
cleared ont. Christ is victor. and He
says 10 the woman; Where are the
prosecutors in this caseP Are they all
gone? Then l discharge YOU: go and
sin no more" l have wondered what
Christ wrote on the ground For do
You realize that is the only time that
he ever wrote at all? know that
Eusebius says that Christ once wrote
letter TO Abcarus, the king of FdesSa.
but there Is no good evidence of such
n CORES pondenee The wisest being
the world ever saw and the one who
had more 70 say than any one who
ever lived, never writing a book or a
chapter or paragraph or a word on
parchment. Nothing but the itera-
ture Of the dust. and one sweep OF "a
brush or one breath of a wind obliterat-
ed IL forever.
Among all the rolls of the volumes
OF the first library founded az Theb.,
there was not one scroll % Christ
Among the 100000 books Of The Alex
andrian library. which. by the infa-
nous decree Of Caliph Omar. were used
as fuel 10 heat the . 600 baths Of the
city, not one sentence had Christ
Tcnned- Among all the ininitude Of
volumes now standing in the libraries
cf Edinburgh, the British museum. or
Berlin, or Vienna. or the learned re-
positories Of all nations. not one word
written directly by the finger of Christ.
All That H. ever wrote lie wrote i'm
dust-uncertain shifting dust
Ny text says be- stooned down and
wrote on the ground. standing straight
M a man mig1, write on the ground
with a staff but IL with his 6nrer, ne
would write in the dust he must bend
clear over. Ave. he must get at least
on ono knee or he can not write on tho.
ground Bc not surprised that lie
stopped down. His whole life was
stopping down. STOPPING down from
castle % barn. STOPPING down from
celestial homage 90 monocratic iecr.
From residence above che stars to
whore star had 70 fall to- desi vnatc
His landing place. From Heaven front
door u the worlds back gate From
writing in round and silversd letter.
Of constellation and galaxy on the
blue scroll Of Heaven 90 writing on the
ground "a the dust which the feet OF
tine crowd bad left in Hcrod's temple.
II. in January you have ever stepped
out ri % princes conservat1rv shat had
MeAscan cactus and magno ias in FULL
bloom into the outside air. ten degrees
below zsro You may get some idea Of
Christs change of atmO. phcr- from &C..
lcstial % terrestrial How many
heavens There ars know not but
there are 40 least three for Paul was
caught un into the third ~ .av.n.r
Clrist came down from tho highest
Heaven 90 tho second Heaven and
down from second Heaven o. first
Heaven. down swiftcr than mcteors
ever FEN down amidst stellar solon-