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\ SERMON FOR SUNDAY
eLoeUeEr DISCOURSE ON THREE
WAYS OF TREATING A SINNER"
me Rev. DR.. ). wilbur Chapman Tells OF
the Worlds Treatment. the Laws
Trestmsns and the Saviour's Treat
me1t OF the ErrtnE.


NEW YORK CITY. - The distinguished
evangelist. the Rev. DR.. J: Wilbur Chap
man, has prepared the following sermon
for the press. It IS entitled Three Ways
Of Treating a Sinner" and was preached
thee; 90, and sin no more" John 8: II.
There is something exceedingly pathetic
In the beginning Of this chapter where we
read Je.ns went unto the Mount Of Olives.
I know the critics say that this story does
not belong to the New Testament, but did
you ever see q 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 50
much in need Of His service. Thirdly. IN
His sitting down and teaching. showing
that he spoke with authority. Fourth. in
che scorn with which He treated the Phar-
isees as they condemned this poor. untor'
tunate woman, when He iaid, He that is
without sin among you let him first cast q
stone ut her," and finally in His tender
kreatmeus Of the sinner herself when He
aaid, Neither do I condemn thee: so: and
I'm no more" This 10 all very like Him.
and somehow I cannot get it out Of my
mind that il belongs just where we have
syer found it, and that anything which
has so genuine q ring as this must 6rS have
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 .
home. The people that helped Him all had
lodgings somewhere, but the Son Of Man
lad not where to lay His head. He was
yich, but for our sakes He became poor, a
homeless xanderer, although the cattle on
q thousand hills were His and the very
world in which He lived had been only. -
Il were, His footstool. It 10 really touch:
Olive. IA NAV be that BE went to lodge
vita friend. possibly to sleep out in the
open air, with only the blue sky above
Him; perhaps He went to pray, for again
and afain do We find Him in communion
With His Father on this mountain side, and
He NAV have gone just to wait upon God
that he might have some new message
Sfom heaven or that some new direction
might be given to His life OF self-sacrihce:
BE was always going in the direction OF
this mountain, and i is for this reason
6elighted to do the same thing, but at this
particular time He vas up early in the
morning. What q worker He was. The
most tireless servant the world has ever
seen was our Master. BEGINNING in His
childhood when He said. "Wist ye not that
& must be about Nv Fathers business" !"
eoing out in His ministry when he de-
clares. W must work the works OF Him
chat sent Ne while it is day, for the night
ecmsth when no man can work" aaying as
BE said on the we'll curb: my meat is to
DO the win Of Him that sent Me-. and
then stepping into q boat and pushing of
% make His ministry helpful, thus using
HE boat for His pulpit. By day and BY
night He toiled, in heat or in cold He Ia.
bored, with the multitudes following Him
SAouting hosanna, and the mob close
Tracking after Him, let Him be cruei6ed.
He did nothing but work. What JOY it
was to Him to say "a He came up to the
sross, az have finished the work Thou
invest Ne to do" How few men can say
e. Most men feel as il they were but at
The beginning Of their ife's journey when
khey stop il, and say with regret, II
could but live my lite over rag again r.. would would
finished His work. ! like to picture Him
rising In the Mount Of Olives. The scene
must have been mort beautiful. There is
the city Of the king lying at His very feet.
Che CITY He loved NTH passionate devo-
ton. That valley yondcr is the kidroH
between Him and Jerusalem, and that
stretch OF hills in the distance with the pc.
culiar hare Of the Holy Land upon them.
looking more like string Of jewels than
anything else, are the Mountains Of Mohab.
Looking Of in the direction in which Jesus
mast have ever turned His eyes, that glis-
tening light in the distance comes from the
lsk 81 h. .,,ks sf,1I
scenery, although He was in love with all
nature. He taught al dsv Yesterday and
He must teach to-day. so down the mouat-
ain side He goes. past the garden where
later He is 10 suffer, over the Kidron, in
Yhrough the gates and He is at the tempe
and takes His seat with the people throng-
inc about Him. The DAVIS work is begun.
, I shall never take this story ont OF my
Bible. and IL others remove it shall keen
L ever in my heart till see Him. ! find
b il three ways OF treating sinner.
First. the worlds way, which is crue! in
The extreme.
Second. the laws way, which is as re-
! Third, the Saviour's treatment. which
presents TO us sublimer picture than any.
thing the world has ever seen.
A /.
The worlds treatment Of sinner "And
early in the morning He came again into
Him, and he sat down and taught them.
And the Scsibes and Pharisees brought
unto Him o woman taken IN adultery, and
wh,n they had set her in the midst they
say unto Elm, Master, this woman was
taken in adultery, in the very oct" Verses
"a. Sin il an awful thing. You do not
reed to turn to the Bible to understand
lhis; real the daily newspapers. keep
your eyes and ears open as you walk the
streets Of the city; but still you may read
e in tkis account, which Is almost 1000
kaken and hurried into the presence Of the
Master. You can understand how a man
could min, but not . woman, yet IL our
hearts were known how many OF US. with.
but respect to sex, would stand con-
demned in the presence of Him who has
paid that anger Is murder and an evil i'm.
Aeination 10 sin.
The other day in q place Of sinful resort
man suddenly stood up and rapping on
The table with revolver said. Hear me. "
and when other men with frightened faces
would have left the room he commanded
them to stop and said. 81 used to have a
at me. 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
presence Of his maker. This story of q
man il OF common occurrence. but ! know
Almost identically the same wrctched story
concerning q woman. Satan has no respect
TOR sex, and since women seem to fall from,
greater heights than men. somehow, a!as.
they seem to 60 to greater depths. suppose
chat we all Of US fall because we come to
triAe with sin. You avoid the house that
has the mark OF contagious disease upon
tt, and yet you can scarcely read news.
ii 9s seme besrsbrsak;ns sccee snd he
fore you know it you are as familiar with
The circumstances Is II you had lived in
them yourself, and you place yourself in
danger of being inoculated with the virus