New-York tribune., 1900-08-13

seemed to shake, and therefore many hand f.1 has
OF the inner life who reason thus for this story Of
eHS 0t than Gnrs a hs handers Of the Law Of
Sinai. and sinful men have had their love OF sin
While we can easily understand on the one hand.
y the |Hurcn ehPuHeec ~ me ~ II on heina here
at ali unless it took place; for If it did not take
detect the Seam Were the pieee Of tradition was
put into iuxfaposition with the garment of the
Gospel. Yet the longer we search into 1t the more
with the whole life Of our Lord; there is no
sides which S if II were Invented there must have
been inventor; and an inventor of this story
brain than any man of whom We nave record in
the first two centuries of the Christian Era
man who had SC deep a knowledge of the purity
dernssss Of c6Tist that he could possibly have com
Rqsed the paragraph or tented sGSh & he eeeorG eT
Church expuneed it. it is impossible for rs to CON
@ 50 We taF ~ G tbs nivarse 9 Of the
Wars WP s6 9 WIh s9 dane wf fS R
SINNERS DEALING WITH SINNERS.
golden autumn and the Jews-the harvests of the
S en % 6 e e fF9 9 6ow2s b tRs wcR
they erected upon the roofs or the houses OF Jeru
22Tnd Joy, Christ had spent the night upon the
sion of His Fathers house. bedight with glory
that He loved it; perhaps because the fresh balmy
had addressed. Coming. early from the Mount of
ne 9li1le we fe an+ered @ az His Fa4b@r's
Temple-perhaps the first to find Himself there
glory of the Temple and cast long shadows across
the white marble pavement from the cloisters OF
rounded it On ali sides
sorbed m con1munion and prayer and now, by ones
and twos, the pous jews began to gather some for
meeting Him with whom all lips We're filed, and
of the Temple. AS a SUFFICIENT crowd had
gathered our Lord retreated to the wall CT the
treasury, sat down there upon a stone seat or
step and commenced to speak to the people,
taught them Of God and Of Himself, saying, Il
At this juncture across the pavement process
sion Of grave and reverent men was seen ap-
brinsing shamef9ced Woman. whom they had
taken in the act of sin. They made their way
presently disclosed their heir PURPOSE; Pla6SiIag 6iag the
formed a circle around her, without blush upon
their cold hard faces they told the story Of her
ing: Moses commanded that such an one should
That is the way that the sinner deals with sin
The most implaesble and mereIl@ss judgment emit that
thiHS thaf Women Who hsd fallen would be most
who have been forgiven their ten thousand talents
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a7eG ] tna @ oge VINO 1 aye inner d % vg' TN Ine m
lessen the enormity Of their own offence by paint
haze been there T. when they first went astray the
had fallen into the hands Of God rather than of
man! But the first mistake the first straying foot
staRtly I noted remem6ered and made the subject
Of unehaTtahle gossip the sinner ;s Vas put as it
kind and malicious gaze and watched and
@ have BEEN faeamd drfed So sf s Ra on
| the nanG o. COG ana the touch OF the Heoeefner
/ on yourselves, but merciful to all else and before
your own heart whether you know the temptation
to hch ne bas been subjeGtgd and to whieh If yop
| whether you have not been surrounded by fences
Ask whether you should not stone in your own self
me me SIN Wnfh you You are So 1efa ae 10 st0ne @ IN
& ySHr % own eye y6a 6 may 5 h rush Of tears be
| MOSES DEALING WITH SIN AND SINNERS.
Moses said that such should be stoned"
That IS the verdict of the Law. of which Moses
q sin is sufficient to incur. the penalty Of death
le is M nS 81 Win b sw i bnsa an u taxes S one false
| and there is no mercy If sins against his
health only by one, act he has suffer the penalty
and # we M gesDass sssnst IT, t. whether h @ in the
sentence Of instant suffering unto death.
| penalty was inflicted for minor violations Of the
| law, the jals were crowded with criminals. and
progress Of crime, You may multiply the penalty
ne W PSs @ oW m IN na5 way stay the @
ind the entire land fun Of adultery that instead
the law, and the foremost fore names in Jewish history
| have come beneath the condemnation of the Law
| Of Moses had it been carried into effect.
Has not this been our experience a hundred times
| that we viii not do would. though we do
as would not: and that the knowledge Of the
curse OF the law does not stay hand: that
though we know shall suffer for il. yet beneath
the sudden rush OF passion, and the assault of
should abhor and perpetrate crimes by which all
our after life is shadowed?
CHRIST's TREATMENT OF SIN
The text is most striking and tender Cannot
you imagine the scene? The Saviour seated the
crowd standing around Him; woman in the
forefront; the cynical faces OF her accusers: and
our Lord so sensitive. nay. sensible of the whole
horror or the scene, Of the sin OF the the
shame OF her sin, the blush upon her face her con-
fusion, OF the ptiess malice of her accusers, and
Of the fact that these the leaders of Israel,
that as all these broke upon His soul, His face
crimsoned with the blush OF perfect purity to hide
Whcther He traced literal letters do know
We know that those hands had once written the
commandments upon the tables Of stone. GER
tainly He did not write these. What did He write?
The dust Of the Temple has been swept away By
( the winds yet could we call atom by atom together
! such as these. There is therefore now no con-
dennationT'
He wrote because He bIushed. and the burning
Shame upon His face-the offended modesty of HIS
holy soul-hid itself that might See. Hisseue-
mics clluckled 'Ah! have caught Him at last
upon the whole group which they broke in upon AZ
they pressed Him with their question, What
sayest Thou?'
Then He lifted up Himself and cast one awful
sentence into their midst which must have Ia lien
among them like a shell into the midst Of "a
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