The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-11-13
WAYS CONTRASTED.
DR.. CHAPMAN'S SUNDAY SERMON.
The Difference Between Our Ways,
the Ways of the World and tho
WayS of Christ.

SNduRtlSI, lHC Z ~ "
man, has prepared the following sermon
for the press. 1t is entitled Three Ways
Of Treating a Sinner" and was preached
from the text: Neither do | condemn
thee; go, and sin no more" John s: H..
There is something exceedingly pathetic
in the beginning of this chapter where we
read Jesus went unto the Mount OF Olyes.
/ know the critics say that this story does
not belong to the New Testament, but dld
You ever sec a better representation on
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-
isces as they condemned this poor, untor-
tunate woman, when He said, He that Is
without sin among you let him first cast a
stone at hcrr," and finally N His, tender
treatment CO the sinner herself when he
said, Neither do | condemn thee; go; ana
sin no more" This is all very like HIM.
and somehow | cannot get it ont e. my
mind that it belongs just where we nave
ever found it, and that anything which
has so genuine a ring as this must have
been given to lis by inspiration OF God.
But the pathos of the first verse comes to
US when We connect it with the last verse
of the eth chapter of john, And every
mar went unto his w 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 or Man
had not where to lay HIS head. lie was
rich. but for our sakes He became poor, c
homeless waadcrer, although the cattle on
a thousand hills we're His and the very
world in which He lived had been only, as
it were, His footstool. 1t IS real:T touch.
ing to see Him going to the Mount OF
Olives. 1t may be that lie 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. Tor again
and again do we find Him III communlon
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-sacrltice:
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 tie sane thing; 81. &C this
particular time He wa? Up c:Tiy IN the
morning. What 4 worker He was. Hhe
most ~tireless slr;aat the world has ever
seen was our Master, beginning in His
childhood when He said. "Wist ye not that
l must be about Ny Fathers business"
going out in His ministry VIXEN He de-
clares, II must work the works OF Him
that sent Me while it is day, fer the night
cometh when no man can work saying as
He said OH the we'll curb, My meat is to
do the will Of Him that sent Me" and
then stcpp,:.y into a heat I'D pushing C
from the shore when the crowd Is too scat
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
shouting hosa.na, and tie mob ic'cca
tracking after Him. let Him be craciiicd.
He did nothing but work. What Z JOY it
was to Him to say as He came UP to the
cross. 81 have finished The work Thou
gavest Me to do" How few men can say
it. Most men feel as il they were but at
the beginning of their LIES journey when
they stop it, and say with regret, if |
could but live my life over again | would
do something worthy of note, but Jesus
finished His work. l 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
culiar haze of the Holy Land upon them.
looking more like a string Of jewels than
anything else, are the Mountains OF Mohao.
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. hut He cares not for beautiful
scenery, although He was in love with all
nature. He taught al day 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 kidron. IN
through the gates and He is at the temple
and takes His scat. with the people throng-
ing about Him. The days work is begun.
I shall never take this story out of my
Bible. and if others remove it shall keep
it ever in my heart till | see Him. l 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-
l~entlcsS as death.
Third, the S~aviour's treatment. which
presents to Us n sublimcr picture ,han any
thing the world has ever seen.
The worlds treatment of sinner. ".And
early in the morning He came again into
the temple. and all the people CANE unto
Him, and He sat down and taught them.
And the Scribes and Pharisees brought
unto Him a 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 1000
years old. 1t is a woman the mob has
taken and hurried into the presence of the
Master. You can understand how a man
could sin, but not a woman, yet 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 N
agination is sin.
The other day in a place of sinful resort
a 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. Il used to have a
happy home, a wife and children; now look
at me. a horrible wreck, my family gone,
my situation taken from me, my friends
have forsaken me-" and before they could
stop him he had sent his soul into the