The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-01-30

Christ no other face could be worthy Of hia
skin. | doubt If any man could paint the
trembling woman her face now flushed and
now pale, trembling IN every part Of her
body, and yet you can see 10 al as you stop
and think. / know why He was so mercl-
iul. You say 10 was because lie was oi-
vine, and that IA true without saying it.
but 10 seems 90 me Tie must have been ~
peclally mcreiiul because of the night lie
had spent at the Mount of Olives. / ana
perfectly sure that that man who prayl
much with Christ b ever charitable iu bis
treatment Of those who have gone astruy.
Mrs. WhlttemOrea treatment of Biuebiru.
the poor fallen girl, who becomes the mis-
sionary 20 the outcast. Jerry McAuiey's
arm about s. ii. Hadley and his PRAYER.
which reveal 10 the poor sinful man chat
Jerry McAuley knew Christ. are but illus.
trations Of the spirit Of which I speak,
The man who has the spirit Of Christ
Is ever gentle with the erring end
up and down the streets Of our cities men
80 in multtudes longing for just enc Hord
Of sympathy.
Said young business man 20 me lhls
week: Il have been four years IN hpw
York, most Of the time with a heavy heart
No one has ever spoken to me Of ChflN.
nor invited me 10 the church, nor asked if
he could be my friend and | have never
Craved money from any one, for / have nos
needed It, but my heart has been hungry
for sympathy and the touch Of a brothers
hand" Do YOU notice the manner Of Jesus.
First, HE stopped down and wrote iu
| the dust. Some one has said that lie di0
II just because His mind was occupied
with thinking what He should do with tha
sinner and 1t was much the same spirit "a
/ you would have If you would scribble upon
| piece Of paper while your mind was taxi
ing IN some weighty problem. Some one
else IS suggested that in the purity oE
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| woman Of sin, He stopped down to write
because He would hide the flushing Of lie
! own lace. That dust that was then at His
! teet ls gone forever; only God Himself
could bring it back, and yet II by miracle
| He should bring it before US tonight | be-
heYe | know what would be written there
| on, Neither DO / condemn thee; 60 and
sin no more" Aud / am glad that we are
not shut up to the sand for a record Of that
| truth. It is written in this book "Ihere
IS; therefore. no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus" and this record
Is eternal. Heaven and earth shall pass
! but My word shall never pass away"
! Second, when He continued with bowed
head to write the crowd became exceed.
ingly anxious, and finally they asked Him
what He had to say about the woman who
was sinner and then comes one of the
grandest sentences that ever fell from Hi
lips, and gives us all the beauty Of Ills
manhood, as well as the power Of His God
| hood when He said, Let he who is With
out sin cast the first stone" / doubt moi
the woman began to tremble, and she must
have said to herself, my punishment II
upon me. for here are these Pharisees who
have made loud professions of their purity.
surely they will cast the first stone" but
never a hand was lifted and never a stone
was throws, which only reveals to me the
| fact thA ghen men are cast with those
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full, but nevertheless wrong in the sight OF
God, who of us could cast the first stone in
this assembly tonight? The very fact that
hands are not lifted and stones are not
thrown is our own condemnation.
Third, in the ninth verse we read. "And
they which heard it being convicted by
their own conscience, went out one by one,
beginning at the eldest, even unto the last,
and Jesus was left alone and the woman
standing in the midst" That to my mind
is the most dramatic scene in all the chan
ter, if not in the New Testament. Dud
denly the shouts of the mob are hushed,
they have taken their hands off from the
trembling woman. they are speeches.. n
the presence of this Son of God and with
out consultation they begin to stink away.
l can see them 90, until finally the last one
is gone and there is the hush of death upon
the two as they stand together. You can
all but hear the throbbing of their hearts;
you can OeJeCJ Lne quick breathing VI btG
woman, who thinks that the time for sem
tence has come. Mercy ana pity face each
other, and mercy waits for pity to speak.
Neither do / condemn thee; go and sin
no more" And we are ever to remember
three things in connection with our Sa-
viour:
First, there is never a question as to
how deeply we have sinned: the stories OF
the greatest sinners are told in the New
Testament for our hope.
Second, there is power enough IN the
: blood of the Son to blot out the deepest
sin Though your sins be as scarlet they
shall be as white as snow; though they be
crimson they shall be as wool.
And the third thing to remember is IL
| the man with SIN Is like the sands OF the
sea for number if he would feel the power
of the shed blood Of the Son of God he
= must by real faith and honest confession
2 lay hold upon Him for eternal life.
His kindness lifted her burden, and the
g world is Just dying to-day for the want OF
: sympathy. I think the time is long past
I when men are willing in these days to
spend an hour in listening to abstract rea.
{ soning or deep theological discussions.
+. feel confident that the time is upon us
1 when men are ready to explain to that
7 church, or that minister ready to bestow a
K word of cheer, ready to help little IN
: bearing the burden of life.
= A woman came with a handful Of sand
y to her minister and said, "My sins are like
n that for number" and he said, ''Take the
sand back to the sea and let a wave roll
n over your handful Of sand and they will b.
!, gone Tonight I bring you to the sea
p greater than any the world has ever looked
!, upon.
"Thcre is fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's vein,
+ And sinners plunged beneath that food
- iOse all their guilty stains "
4 Neither do condemn thee" said Jesu.
:. when sl her accusers had slipped away
We do not know what became of Thu