The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-01-30
a SERMON FOR SUNDAY
ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ON THREE
WAYS or TREATING a SINNER"
the Rev. Dr. j. wilbur Chapman Tells Of
the World'A Treatment, tho Laws
Treatment and the saviour's Treat
ment " the Errlng.

msnt r the Eriag.
NEW YoRK CITY. - The distinguished
evangelist, the Rev. DR.. j. Wilbur Chap
man, has prepared the following sermon
Tor be press Il is entitled Three Ways
ot Treating a Sinner and was preached
rom the text: Neither do / condemn
heei go, and sin no more" John 8; IL.
There is something exceedingly pathetic
~ the beginning Of this chapter where we
read J"1us went unto the Mount OF Olives.
know the critics say that this story does
not belong 10 the New Testament, but did
YOU ever see a 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, uunior-
tunate woman, when He said, "lte 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 lie
said, Neither do / condemn thee 20. and
/ Sn no more" This is all very like Him.
and somehow / cannot get II out Of my
] mind that it belongs just where we have
never found 1t, and that anything which
| IS so genuine a ring as this must have
nep given to US by inspiration Of God.
BuCehe hathos Of the first verse comes to
us whAyl We connect it with the last verse
OF theNth chapter Of John. And every
man went unto his own house" Jesus
went unto the Mount of Olives. They all
mad houses. His cOmmonest aecuser had a
home. The people that helped Him all had
Lodgings somewssre, but the Son q Man
had not where to lay His head. He was
rich, but for our sakes He became poor a
homeless wanderer, although the cattle on
| thousand hills were His and the very
world in which He lived had been onl as
it were, His footstool. 1t is really tot,h.
ing to see Him going to the Mount Of
Olives. 1t may be that He went to lOdo
with friend, possibly TO sleep cA,t in the
I 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
lie was always going in the direction Of
this mountain, and it is for this reason
THAT Christian travellers always are ever
delIEhted to do the same thing but at this
particular time He was up early in the
morning. What a 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
must be about Ny Fathers business"
going out 10 His ministry when He de-
clares, Il must work the works Of Him
that sent Mewhile it is day, for the night
cometh when. y man can work" saying as
He said on the>well curb, my meat is to
do the will of Kim that sent Me" and
then stepping into a boat and pushing off
from the shore when the crowd is too great
to make His ministry helpful, thus using
the boat for His puloit. By day and by
night He toiled, in hat or in cold BE la
bored. with the multitldes 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 IN to the
cross, 'I have finished the work Thou
gavest Me to do" How few men can saw
it. Most men feel as if they were but at
the beginning OF their life's jotrney when
they stop it, and say with regret, il |
could but live my life over again would
do something worthy of note, but Jesus
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 thar
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 thu
Dead Sea, but He cares not for beautiful
scenery, although He was in love with al
nature. He taught all dav yesterday anC
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, il
through the gates and He is at the templ
and takes His seat. with the people throng
ing abont Him. The davis work is begun.
| shall never take this story ont of IN,
Bible, and If others remove it shall keeI
it ever in my heart till [ see Him. I fine
in it three ways of treating a sinner.
First, the worlds way, which is cruel il
the extreme.
Second, the laws way, which is as re
lentless as death,
Third, the Saviour's treatment, whicI
pres 3 to us a sublimer picture than any
thing the world has ever seen.
The worlds treatment Of a sinner. can
early in the morning He came again int
the temple, and all the people came unit
Him, and He sat down and taught then
And the Scribes and Pharisees brougt
unto Him a woman taken in adultery, an
when they had set her in the midst the
say unto Him, Master, this woman we
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 IL
streets of the city; but still you may rea
years old. It is a woman the mob h,
taken and hurried into the presence of tt
Master. You can understand how a ma
could sin, but not a woman, yet if OF
o hearts were known how many Of us, wit
j out respect to sex, would stand CO
!. demned in the presence of Him who h