Milford chronicle., 1904-10-21

craft as Joseph did in Egypt, or as
Bismarck did in Germany, or as Glad
stone did in the British parliament
/ No Distinction Between Glasses.
| Do you believe God discriminates be-
tween the sins of the social. classes?
If you do, let me by the scene of my
text disabuse your mind of that sur
mise. Come, let us push our way
! through the multitudes crOwding in
the temple and find out who compose
that group. Who are those strong, fine
looking men standing in front Of
Christ? They are not insignificant
clerks. They are not labOrers or farm
ers who have come into town with
dust begrimed clothes. They are not
hirelings or beggars or men and wOm-
en- who from perpetual mOvings have
become tramps and yagabOnds. Most
of that group just i'll front Of Christ
have keen intellectual faces. They
have in their physical movements the
actions of successful men. They have
in the glance of their eyes the search
ing power which bespeaks command
"Those men," wrote DR.. Strong, were
the scribes. They were the doctors of
the law and the interpreters of the
Scripture" These other men are the
Pharisees. They were so particular to
keep themselves Outwardly unspOtted
from heather customs that they car
ried extracts from the Hebrew law
about with them in little boxes or
They had these boxes
strapped to their fOreheads that all
men might see them. But when these
men. these leaders of Jerusalem, were
standing there condemning a poor out |
cast woman for her sins Christ in 81 |
lence was making figures upon the |
ground with his fingers in which they |
might read their own condemnation.
What Jesus Christ was writing upon |
the ground is not recorded; but. though .
we may never know on earth those eX-
net words. | have Il good deal of sym
Dathy with that evangelist who said
that Christ was writing the evil his
tory of each scribe and Pharisee while
'uprit. No sooner did the first scribe
legin to talk than Christ began to
write, as though he had set down these
words: Lawyer. you are not living
With your wife She has left you on
lccount of your dissOluteness. She is
low gone back to her fathers home.
'or what are you condemning this wo-
nan? For your own sin?' No sooner
Id the lawyer look down on the ground
nd see what Jesus was writing than
e turned and departed. When the
ext speaker, Il Pharisee. began to talk
'hrist began to write again. rich
lan. you have never committed the
rime of which this woman was guilty,
ut you own the house in which she
yes and carries on her vile traffic.
he rent you get from that house is
lood money. Why are you speaking
gainst your tenant? You are a part
er with her in crime When the
'harisee capitalist saw what Christ
-as writing and that all the people
ere laughing at him he also dsap-
cared. So Christ went through the
st of different accusers. But whether
hrist was writing the history of those
ccusers on the ground or no we care
OF, for one fact we do know-by his
lence rs well as later by his spoken
ords Christ was teaching the sweep
lg lesson that a rich mans sins, Il
rOminent lawyers or physicians or
atesman's sins or a minister's sins
re just as severely condemned in the
ght of God as the poor mans sins.
he divine law discriminates not be-
yeen the sins of the upper and low
= social classes, but between sin and I,
The sin Of the broad
9th is the same black sin which some !
mes nests under the rough wOolens of
le laborer anal the mechanic. Sin is
n wherever found.