The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

Sunday Discourse by DR.. Chapman, the
Noted Evangelist.
n. tells Of the Worlds Treatment, the Laws
Treatment and the Sayiour's
Treatment Of the Erring.

from the text: Neither do ] condemn
thee; 60, 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 spo.e 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
without sin among you let him first cast a
stone at her" and finally in His tender
treatment of the sinner herself when He
sin no more" This is all very like Him.
and somehow | cannot get it out of my
mind that it belongs just where we have
ever found it, and that anything which
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
home. The people that helped Him all had
lodgings somewhere, but the Son of Man
had not where to lay His head. lie was
rich, but for our sakes He became poor, a
homeless wanderer, although the cattle on
a thousand hills were His and the very
world in which He lived had been only, as
it were, His footstool. it is really touch.
ing to see Him going to the Mount of
Olives. 1t may be that He went to lodge
with 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 NAV 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 lie was up early in the
morning. What worker He was. The
most tirc.ess servant the world has ever
seen was our Master. beginning in His
childhood when He said. "Wist We not that
I must he about NV Fathers business"
going out in His ministry when He de
clares, 81 must work the works of Him
that sent Me while it is day, ,or the night
cometh when no man can work saying as
He said on the well curb. MY meat is tn
do the will OF Him that sent Me" and
then stepping into boat and pushing off
from the shore when the, crowd is too great
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 Joy it
was to Him to say as He came up to the
cross, g! have finished the work Thou
it. Most nen feel as il they were but at
the beginning of their LIES journey when
they stop it, and say with regret, If j
could but live my life over again | would
do something worthy of note, but Jesus
liuis ned His work. l like to picture Him
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 thpn
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. hnt He cares not for beautiful
scenery, although He was in love with all
nature. He taught MI day yesterday and
He must tench to-day so down the mount
ain side He goes. past the garden where
later lie is to suirer. over the Kidron, in
through tho gates and He is at the temple
and takes His seat. with the people throng-
ing about Him. The DAVIS work is begun.
shall never take this story out of my
Bible, and ii others remove it I shall keen
il ever in my heart till I see Him | fad
in It three ways of treating a sinner.
First, the worlds way, which is cruel in
Second, the laws way which is as re-
lentless as death
Third, the Savours treatment, which
presents to us sublimer picture than any
thing the word has ever seen.
/.
The worlds treatment 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 moi
Nneed to tsrn to the Bible TO understand
thls read the daily newspapers, keep
your eyes and ears open as you walk the
streets Of the city; but still you may read
1t IN this account. which is almost 200e
years old, 1t is a woman the mob has
taken and hurried into the presence of the
Master. You can understand how man
could sin, but not woman, vet ii ,ulf
hearts were known how many of US. with
out respect to sex, would stand con
demned in the presence OF Him who has
sad that anger is murder and an evil i'm
aglnation is sin.
The other day in place of sinful resort
man suddenly stood up and rapping on
lne table with revolver said, Hear me, /"
ana when other men with frightened faces
would have left the room he commanded
Ihem to stop and said. II used to have u
happy home, wife and children; now look
AZ me- horrible wreck, my family gone
my situation taken from me, my friends
nave iffsaken me- and before they could
stop nm he. had sent his soul into the
presence OF his maker. This story OF a
ieh II OF common occurrence, but ] know
almost ldentically the same wretched story
ssoneerning woman. Satan has no respect
aor sex, ana since women seem TO fall from
hreater heights than men. somehow, alas,
they seem TO go to greater depths. | suppose
t,n .naI we all OF us fall because we come to
hine with sin. You avoid the house that
Il .he mark OF contagious disease upon
r ~, anu yet you can scarcely read news
taper put IN IT you viii see the awful de.
aiNs OF some heartbreaking scene, and be.
tG1re t1re you know it you are az familiar with
he circumstances as if you had lived in
dan dm yourself and you place yourself in
os ster o. being inoculated with the virus
saa. worse disease than the world has ever
ALL, rossiby VIC fail all of us because we
viii dhe daohe SIN to tarry in our hearts, and
rmaeaaen'ng influence which may be SO
our derppupie at first it blinds our eyes Ia