Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1902-11-20
WAYS C0NTRASTED.

TAAP NVlIINF1Ol LUs
DR.. UlPMAN'S SUNDAY SERMON.
The Difference Between Our Ways,
the Ways of the. World and the.
Wayspf Christ.
NEW ToRK CITY. = The distinguished
evangeiht, the Rev. DR.. j: Wilbur Chap
man., hai prepared the following sermon
for the Mess. 1t is entitled ''Ihree Ways
Of Treating a Sinner" and was preached
from tha text: Neither do l condemn
! thee; go, ,hnd sin no more" John 8: IL.
| There : something exceedingly pathetic
in the beginning of this chapter where we
| read Jessf went unto the Mount of Olives
| know 4e critics say that this story does
! not belo1E to the New Testament, but did
YOU even see better representation OF
CHRIST, drst, IN His going out to the
| Mount odOHves as He was accustomed to,
secondly lin His rising early in the morn
ing that AHe might come again in touch
| with the kreat throbbing mass of people so
much IN feed Of His service. Thirdly, in
| His sittlg down and teaching, showing
| that He poke with authority. Fourth, in
| the scornIwi which He treated the Phar-
isees as hey condemned this poor, unfor-
tunate waman, when He said, ''He that is
without dn among you let him first cast a
stone at her." and finally in His tender
treatment Of the sinner herself when He
said, H'Ndther do l condemn thee; go, and
sin no nbre.;' This. is all very like Him.
and son4h how I cannot get it out of my
| mind that it belongs just where we have
ever fou1d it, and that anything which
has so ghuine a ring as this must have
been giv3h to us by inspiration of God.
But the Iathos Of the first verse comes to
US when We connect it with the last verse
Of the 7h chapter of John, "And every
man wenf unto his own house." Jesus
went un1 the Mount of Olives. They all
had housds. His commonest accuser had a
home. lie people that helped Him all had
lodgings somewhere, but the Son of Man
had not tEhere to lay His head. He was
rich, brEE,for our sakes He became poor, a
homeless lWanderer, although the cattle on
| a thousX5d hills were His and the very
world inNfhich He lived had been only, as
it were, ,EHis footstool. It is really touch
ing to lee Him going to the Mount of
Olives. ut may be that He went to lodge
with Mend, possibly to sleep out in the
open aiiA with only the blue sky above
Him; pehaps He went to pray, for again
and agaiS do we find Him in communion
with HisFather on this mountain side, and
He may have gone just to wait upon God
that HeImight have some new message
from hesFen or that some new direction
might bSdgiven to His life of self-sacrifce.
He was llways going in the direction OF
this mo.htain, and it is for this reason
that ChAstian travellers always are ever
delightef9 do the same thing, but at this
partlcul@ 4ime He was up early in the
morningt What worker He was. The
most ti1 servant the world has ever
MasteT M te 9Sgnhing a na IN bit Ht
I must I about Ny Fathers business, 2
going on3eh His ministry when He de
c,ares, II must work the works of Him
that sent PIE while it is day, for the night
cometh wien no man can work, saying as
He said Of the we'll curb, ''My meat is to
do the will of Him that sent Me- and
then stepping into boat and pushing of
from the shore when the crowd is too great
:. to make His ministry helpful, thus using
the boat ftr His pulpit. By day and by
night He titled, in heat or in cold He la
bored. with the multitudes following Him
tracking afer Him, let Him be crucifed
He did nothing but work. What JOY il
: was to Himlto say as He came up to the
cross, IT hive finished the work Thor
gaVest Me I'd do How few men can say
t it. Most mel feel as if they. were but al
; the BEGINNING of their life's, journey whe1
they stop i'll and say with regret, if
: could but live my life over again I woule
do something worthy of note, but Jesus
finished His work. like to picture Hin
rising in the Mount Of Olives The scene
= must have been most beautiful There il
the city Of the king lying at His very feet
the city He loved with passionate devo
, ton. That valley yonder is the Kidron
4 between Him and Jerusalem, and tina
!, stretch Of hills in the distance with the pc
culiar haze of the Holy. Land upon them
looking more like a string of jewels thai
. anything else, are the Mountains of Mohab
Looking eff in the direction in which Jesu
S must have ever turned His eyes, that glis
: tening light in the distance comes from tn
Dead Sea. but He cares not for beautiful
scenery, although He was in love with al
: nature. He taught all day yesterday an
He must teach to-day, so down the mount
ain side He goes, past the garden wher
:. later He is to suffer, over the Kidron, i
:. through the gates and He is at the tempt
I and takes His seat. with the people throne
S ing about Him. The days work is begun.
l. { shall never take this story out of m
. It ever in my hear{ till I see Him. fin
l. in it three ways of treating a sinner.
n First, the worlds way, which is cruel i
- the extreme.
n Second, the laws way, which is as Re
n lentless as death.
4 Third, the Saviotr's treatment, whic
= presents to us sublimer picture than any
l. thing the world has ever seen.
The worlds treatment of a sinner. can
/
n the temple, and all the people came unit
- Him, and He sat down and taught then
y And the Scribes and Pharisees brougF
k unto Him a woman taken in adultery, an
s. when they had set her in the midst the
~ say unto Him, Master, this woman VIZ
'e taken in adultery, in the very act" Verse
"a. Sin is an awful thing. You do NJ
need to turn to the Bible to understan
this; read the daily newspapers; kee
your eyes and ears open as you walk tt
oI streets of the city; but still you may rea
a it in this account, which is almost 2ot
N years old. It is woman the mob b;
- taken and hurried into the presence of tt
i. Master. You can understand how ma
er could sin, but not woman, yet if OF
r. hearts were known how many Of us, wit
:. out respect to sex, would stand CO
~ demned in the presence Of Him who hi
ze said that anger is murder and an evil il
10 agination is sin
=. The other day in place of sinful reso
u man suddenly stood up and rapping {
I'd the table with revolver said, "Hear me
to and when other men with frightened fac
- would have left the room he commando
10 them to stop and said. t'I used to have
a happy home, wife and children; now loe
a at me. horrible wreck, my family gen
my situation taken from me, my frien
80 have forsaken me-" and before they cou
stop him he had sent his soul into Il