Milford chronicle., 1904-10-21

@on their pardon for past crimes, not
py repcntam, hearts. but by trying to
Dring tie outlaws of MexicO-men like
themselves--to justice. In the scene OF
nv text these scribes and Pharisees'
sinful men at heart, sinful In their
past lives, were striving by their ac-
cusation of this wicked woman to gain
q character for virtue and purity that
they knew they did not deserve.
Each Must Answer For His own.
But what did Christ do? Did he
saw; ''Pharisee, thou art a libertlne-
! Scribe, thou art morally corrupt" Oh
MOI He turned and simply held up be-
/ fcrc their coantonaEccs the mirror or
convicting 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
her" Then one by one they SUNK
away. So. my friends, when you ana
today. going forth into a sinful world
are trying to prove this woman is bad
and that man is bad and that young
boy is bad and that young girl is bad
we are not deceiving God as to our
own characters. We do not improve
our standing at his bar by denouncing
others. Rather by our harsh and un-
charitable judgment we are proving
ourselves deserving of condemnation.
Let us refrain from casting stones at
the sinner. We must all answer for
our own deeds at his bar who said.
HE that is without sin, let him first
cast a stone mt her" And without one
exception we must all either slink
away before the flashing eye of Christ
or, like the poor publican in the temple,
moan, God. be merciful to me, sinner!'
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 peTpetrator. The
Rev. Dr. Dome in one Of his sermons
gave very dramatic incident of his
early life During his first pastorate
he was one day watching the sexton /
digging a grave by his village church |
Suddenly he threw out of the grave /
the skull of man. When DR.. DOnne |
picked it up lie found Il headless nail /
sticking i'm the top of the skull. He /
said nothing about the nail, but asked .
the sexton. ITO whom did this skull .
belong" He found that it was the .
skull of a drunken fellow who one .
the results. as the people supposed, of
m attack of delirium tremens. DR..
DOnne asked: "IIad he a wife? Was
she living yet: What character was
she?" Very good" said the sexton.
with one exception; the neighbOrs do
say she married her second husband
IN the day after the funeral of her
irst husband Or. Dome walked from
hat graveyard to where the woman
was then living. who was once the
wife of the dead man. He held before
ler Mortified eyes the skull and the
nail sticking in the skull. Woman"
said he, do you know this nail?' She
acknowledged that she did. She CON
'essed to the crime of murder commit
ed. many years before. And on ac-
.Ount of her confession and the con
'icting evidence she was hanged for
hat crime Oh. my friends, be not
lmOng the scribes and Pharisees who
lave no mercy, no charity for sinners. Z
lave our lives been immaculate? Is
here any evidence against us that may
confront us when we are mercilessly
ssailinS our erring brother or sister? i
t will be a shameful. humiIiatng,
position to stand convicted before
Ihrist of those sins. Do you not feel
hat Jesus is speaking to us, as he
pake to the prosecutors of old. He
hat is without sin. let him first cast 5
stone at herr