Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-10-17

rou their pardon for past crimes, not |
,, raneutant hearts, but by trying to
hriro the outlaws af MeXico-men like
,harnselves-to justice. In the scene of
nv text these scribes and Pharisees.
s;nfrI men at heart, sinful in thei1
cost lives. were striving by their &C
o,,so+ion of this wicked woman to gain
q character for virtue al purity that
tbov knew they did not deserve.
Each Must Answer For His own.
prt what did Christ do? Did he
GOV. "Pharisee, thou art a libertine
scribe thou art morally corrupt" Oh,
M, He turned and simply held up be-
foro their countenanceS the mirror of
oonvicting conscience, in which they
could see their own sinful selves.
CHRIST said, He that is without sin
among you, let'him first cast stone at
bpr" Then one by one they SUNK
away. So. my friends, when you and
TODAY. going forth into a sinful world,
ORC irving to prove this woman is bad
and that man is bad and that young
how is bad and that young girl is bad,
ue ore not deceiving God as to our
own characters. We do not improve
orr standing at his bar by denouncing
others. Rather by our harsh and IN
charitable judgment we are proving
ourselves deserving Of condemnation
Let ns refrain from casting stones at
the sinner. We must all answer for
orr own deeds at his bar who said,
"He that is without sin, let him first
cast a stone at her" And without one
excention we must all either stink
eway before the flashing eye Of Christ
or like the poor publican in the temple,
moan. God. be merciful to me, sinnerr'
The divine law is omniscient Evil
deeds that the world does not know of
are known to God, and at his judg-
ment bar the evidence of them will
confront the wrongdoer If they have
not been pardoned through Christ.
Even in this world crimes long ago
committed and successfully hidden
have been unexpectedly disclosed and
brought home to the perpetrator. The
Rev. DR.. Dome in one of his sermons
gave a very dramatic incident of his
early life During his first passionate
he was one day watching the sexton
digging a grave by his village church.
Suddenly he threw out of the grave
the skull of a man. When DR.. Dome
picked it up he found a headless nail
sticking In the top of the skull. He
said nothing about the nail, but asked
the sexton, ITO whom did this skull
belongY He found that it was the
skull Of a drunken fellow who one
night was found dead in his bed from
the results, as the people supposed, Of
an attack of delirium tremens. DR..
Dome asked: Had he a wife? Was
she living yet? What character was
sheT' Every good said the sexton,
with one exception; the neighbors do
say she married her second husband
on the day after the funeral Of her
first husband" DR.. Dome walked from
| that graveyard to where the woman
| was then living, who was once the
| wife of the dead man. He held before
| her Mortified eyes the skull and the
nail sticking in the skull Woman "
said he, do you know this nailY' She
|
fessed to the crime Of murder commit.
ted many years before. And on &C
| count Of her confession and the con.
victing evidence she was hanged fol
that crime. Oh, my friends, be not
among the scribes and Pharisees who
have no mercy, no charity for sinners
Have our lives been immaculate? Is
there any evidence against us that may
confront US when we are mercilessly
assailing our erring brother or sister,
1t will be a shameful, a humiliating
| position to stand convicted before
Christ Of those sins. Do you not fee
that Jesus is speaking to us, as he
spake to the prosecutors Of old, He
that is without sin, let him first cast
stone at herr"
Gent1eness For the Repentant.
But, though the divine law was and