The Washington times., 1926-09-02
b REv. Billy SUNDAY
Famous Evangelist

them.
You see the miserable, unhappy
widow. Mrs. Hall. her heart broken.
You see the men that are locked IN
Jail. accused OF numbering q man
and 8 woman, instigated by whom!
T5ae mind goes back to that
dreadful scene under the crabapple
tree. q man and q woman dead side
BY side. one or more bullets in each
body, one Of the two. most horrible
e1d unthinIable. q woman. said to
Rave had her throat cut. AFTER
SHE WAS DEAD.
The devil saw those bodies and he
knew that story long before you
read about II in the newspapers.
You studied and wept. the devil
LAUGHED.
From one end Of black hell to the
other that story ran. Another SEN
gafion Of horror added to the long
list OF human sins. two more souls
on their way down to the dark
4 have surely built thee an hOu-e
60 dwell in, settled place for the
g. Z ide In forever
Satan maintains the fires OF hell
&hat the wicked may dwell THEREIN.
Tt IS Tor man to choose. He can
NOT eat his cake and have It too,
here on earth. He cannot destroy
his immortal soul here in the body,
and have eternal happiness here
after.
Touching Bible Story
OF the beautiful stories that the
Bible tells. Of ali the pictures IN.
the short and suffering life OF.
Jesus. that have drawn tears from
the hardest heart, none is more
beautiful, more pitiful than that OF
the woman taken in adultery.
Every human being. able to read
ur understand language knaWts or
Maould know that story
And early in the morning he
came again into The temple, and ali
the people came unto him, and he
at down and taught them.
And the seribes and Pharisees
brought unto hun q woman taken IN
adultery, and when they set her in
The5 say unto him, Master, this
woman was taken IN adultery. in
Che very act
Now Moses In the law command
ed ms that such should be stoned,
but what sayest th0u9
This they said, tempting him,
That they might have 70 accuse
him. But Jesus stopped down, and
with his finger wrote on the ground,
~ though he heard them rot.
so WHEN THEY CONTINUED
5 ASKING HIM, HE LIFTED UP
HIMSELF, AND SAID UNTO
THEM, HE THAT IS WITHOUT
SIN AMONG you, LET HIM
FIRST CAST A STONE AT HER.
And again He stopped down and
wrote on the ground.
"And they which heard 1t. 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.
When Jesus had lifted up him
SELF. and saw none but the woman,
He sad unto her, Woman, where
are those thine accusers? hath no
man condemned thee?
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HER,
NEITHER DO CONDEMN THEE;
GO AND SIN NO MORE.n-St.
John, Chapter 8, Verses to IL.
Which of us after reading that
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Divine Pity on Her
There, before Jesus stood a
woman, whose guilt was undoubted.
She did not ask the benefit VI
the doubt. There was no doubt.
But Jesus bent down and wrote
IN the sands. And who of us
worms Of the earth can imagine
the Divine pity that filled His
great heart as He looked up and
said to the men that would have
stoned her to death, "He that is
without sin among you let him
first cast a stone at her" And what
artist could ever paint the COM
passion In those Divine eyes as lie
looked at the poor woman taken
in her sin, not a word of defense
upon her lips. waiting in terror
FOR the stones to crush her body?
Woman, where are those thine
aeeusers; hath no man condemned
theer Neither do condemn thee.
90. and sin no more"
The sympathy OF the world of
course is with the unfortunate
woman. Mrs. Hail. widow of :he
clergyman, murdered while his sin
was still hot upon him.
Dreadful Accusation
The law accuses Mrs. Hall of
murder, and at this nnment freed
from prison because she was able
70 give $4,000 bail, she lives under
the dreadful accusation of having
killed her husband or instigatcd
his murder, and that OF the woman
found dead with him.
Millions OF men and women.
aympathizing with . wife tortured
by 3 husbands infideIity and by
jealousy, win hope. pray and be.
lleye that this poor woman will be
freed Of the charges made against
her.
The sympathy of millions will be
with her until beyond all shadow
OF a doubt" as the law requires,
her guilt shall be made clear.
Pity For Mrs. Mills
Not sympathy, for no Christian
heart can syn1pathize with vile
black sin. but pity goes to that poor,
n.nfaryl1idad avt.ttao uo,,I IT, $500.