The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-20
A SERMON FUR SUNDAY
ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ON THREE
WAYS OF TREATING A SINNER"

WAIS VI IKEA TING A SINNER"
Ihe Rcv. DR.. j. Wilbur Chapman Tells oil
tho Worlds Treatment, the Laws
Treatment and the Savlour's Treat
mont Of the Errinr.
NEW. YORK CITY - The distinguished
evangelist, the Rev. DR.. j. Wilbur Chap
man, has prepared the following sermon
Tor the press. It is entitled ''Three Ways
| OF Treating a Sinner" and was preached
from the text: Neither do l condemn
thee; go, and sin no more" John 8: IL.
There is something exceedingly pathetic
In the beginning of this chapter where we
read Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives.
know the critics say that this story does
! not belong to the New Testament, but did
you ever see better representation OF
Christ. first, in His going out to the
Mount of Olives as He was accustomed to-,
secondly, IN His rising early in the morn
ing that He might come again in touch
with the great throbbing mass Of people so
much IN need of His service. Thirdly, in
/ his sitting down and teaching. showing
that He spoke with authority. Fourth, in
the scorn with which He treated the Phar-
isees as they condemned this poor, unfor-
tunate woman, when He said, "He that is
stone at her. and finally in His tender
treatment Of the sinner herself when He
said, Neither do condemn thee: 20. and
SIN no more" This is all very like Him.
I and somehow | cannot get it out of my
mind that it belongs just where we have
has SO genuine ring as this must have
! been given to us by inspiration of God.
But the pathos Of the first verse comes to
us when we connect it with the last verse
OF the 7th chapter of John, "And every
man went unto his own house." Jesus
went unto the Mount of Olives. They all
had houses. His commonest accuser had a
| home. The people that helped Him all had
| lodgings somewhere, but the Son of Man
had not where to lay His head He was
| rich, but for our sakes He became poor,
homeless wanderer, although the cattle on
| thousand hills were His and the very
world in which He lived had been only, as
ing to see Him going to the Mount of
Olives. 1t may be that He went to lodge
| with a friend, possibly to sleep out in the
| open air, with only the blue sky above
Him; perhaps He went to pray, for again
| and again do we find Him in communion
with His Father on this mountain side, and
He may have gone just to wait upon God
that He might have some new message
!, from heaven or that some new direction
! might be given to His life of self-sacrifce.
He was always going in the direction of
this mountain, and it is for this reason
that Christian travellers always are ever
delighted to do the same thing, but at this
particular time He was up early in the
morning. What worker He was. The
most tireless servant the world has ever
seen was our Master, BEGINNING in His
childhood when He said "Wist We not that
l must be about NY Fathers business"
/ going out in His ministry when He de-
clares, Il must work the works of Him
that sent Me while it is day, for the night
wv no mo non,
He said on the we'll curb, "My meat is to
90 the will of Him that sent Me-" and
then stepping into boat and pushing off
from the shore when the crowd is too great
, to make His ministry helpful, thus using
the. boat for His pulpit. BY day and by
night, He toiled, in heat or in cold He la
bored with the multitudes following Him
shouting hosanna, and the mob close
tracking after Him, let Him be crucifed.
He did nothing but work. What a joy it
was to Him to say as He came up to the
cross, IT have finished the work Thou
gavest Me to do" How few men can say
it. Most men feel as if they were but at
they stop it, and say with regret, if I
could but live my life over again would
do something worthy of note, but Jesus
finished His work. I like to picture Him
rising in the Mount Of Olives. The scene
must have been most beautiful. There is
the city Of the king lying at His very feet,
the city He loved with passionate devo-
ton. That valley yonder is the Kidron
between Him and Jerusalem, and that
stretch of hills in the distance with the Pc
culiar haze of the Holy Land upon them.
looking more like a string of jewels than
anything else. are the Mountains of Mohab.
Looking off in the direction in which Jesus
must have ever turned His eyes, that glis-
tening light in the distance comes from the
Dead Sea. but He cares not for beautiful
scenery, although He was in love with all
nature. He taught all dav Yesterday and
He must teach to-day, so down the mount
ain side He goes. past the garden where
later He is to suffer. over the I<idron, in
through the gates and He is at the temple
ing about Him. The DAVIS work is begun.
I shall never take this story out Of my
Bible. and if others remove it 7 shall keen
it ever in my heart till I see Him. find
in it three ways Of treating a sinner.
First, the worlds way, which is cruel in
the extreme.
Second, the laws way, which is as re-
lentless as death
Third. the Saviour's treatment. which
presents to US sublimer picture than any
thing the world has ever seen.
-AeeNY l.
The worlds treatme of a sinner. "And
early in the morning He came again Into
the temple and all the people came unto
Him, and He sat down and taught them.
And the Scribes and Pharisees brought
unto Him woman taken in adultery, and
when they had set her in the midst they
say unto Him. Master, this woman was
taken in adultery, in the very act" Verses
"a. Sin is an awful thing. You do not
need to turn to the Bible to understand
this; read the daily newspapers, keep
your eyes and ears open as you walk the
streets Of the city; but still you may read
it in this account, which is almost 5000
years old. 1t is woman the mob has
taken and hurried into the presence of the
Master. You can understand how man
could sin, bit not a woman, vet if our
hearts were known how many of us, with
out respect to sex, would stand con-
demned in the presence Of Him who has
said that anger is murder and an evil i'm
agination is sin.
The other day in place of sinful resort
man suddenly stood up and rapping on
the table with a revolver said, Hear me,
and when other men with frightened faces
| would have left the room he commanded
them to stop and said. II used to have a
happy home, wife and children; now look
at me, horrible wreck, my family gone,
my situation taken from me, my friends
have forsaken me-" and before they could
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