“TREATING A SINNER”
Sunday Discourse by Dr. Chapman, the
Noted Evangelist.
H: tells of the World's Treatment, the Law's
Treatment and the Saviour's
Treatment of the Erring.
New YORK
Crry. — The distinguished
for the press.
pf Treating a Sinner,” and was preached
irom the text: “Nather do |
thee; go, and sin no more.” John 8: 11.
in the beginning of this chapter where we
read Jeaus went unto the Mount of Olives.
I know the critics say that this story does
pot belong to the New Testament, but did
Four ever see a better representation of
Fhtist, first, in His going out to the
Mount of Olives as He was accuscomed to,
secondly, in His rising early in the morn-
ing that He might come again in touch
with the great throbbing mass of people 80
much in need of His service. Thirdly, in
His sitting down and teaching, showing
that He spoke with authority. Fourth, in
the scorn with which He treated the Phar-
tsces as they condemned this poor, unfor-
tunate woman, when He said, "He that is
without sin among you let him first cast a
stone at her,” and finally in His tender
treatment of the sinner herself when He
said, “Neither do I condemn thee; go, and
sin no more.” This is all very like Him,
snd somehow 1 cannot it out of my
mind that it belongs just where we have
gver found it, and that anything which
has so genuine a ring as this must have
been given to us by inspiration of God.
But the pathos of the first verse comes to
us when we connect it with the last verse
of the 7th chapter of John, “And every
man went unto own house.” Jesus
went unto the Mount of Olives. They all
pad houses. His commonest accuser had a
The people that helped Him all had
lodgings somewhere, but the Son of Man
had mot where to lay His head, He was
rich, but for our sakes He became poor, a
home s wanderer. although the cattle on
8 thousand hill His #nd the very
world in whicl i had been only, as
it were, His foot It ally touch
to see Hi the Mount
ou It He went to lodge
to sleep out in the
ith only the blue sky above
ps He went to pray, for again
ve find Him in com: on
is mountain side, and
upon God
message
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get
his
home
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to wait
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Bible, an 1 if
it ever in my heart till I see Him.
hree wavs of treating a sinner
. the world's way, which is a1
the extreme
Second, the law's way
lentleas as death.
Third, Raviour's treatment,
presents to us a sublimer picture than any
thing the world has ever seen.
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The world’s treatment of a sinner. “And
early in the morning He came again into
the temple, and all the people came unto
Him, and He sat down and taught them.
And the Seribes and Pharisees brought
unto Him a woman taken in adultery, and
when they had set her in the midst they
say unio Him, Master, this woman was
taken in adultery, in the very act.” Verses
24. Bin ie an awful thing. You do not
need to turn to the Bible to understand
this; read the daily newspapers, keep
your eyes and ears open as you walk the
streets of the city; but still you may read
it in this account, which is almost 2000
years oid. It is a woman the mob has
taken and hurried into the presente of the
Master. You can understand how a man
could sin, but not a woman, yet if our
hearts were known how many of us, with-
out respect to sex, would stand con-
demned in the presence of Him who has
said that anger is murder and an evil im-
agination is sin.
The other day in a place of sinful resort
a man suddenly stood up and rapping on
the table with a revolver said, “Hear me,”
and when other men with frightened faces
would have left the room he commanded
them to stop and said, “I used to have a
happy home, a wife and children; now look
at me, a horrible wreck, my family gone,
my situation taken from me, my friends
have forsaken me,” and before they could
stop him he had sent his soul into the
presence of his maker. This story of a
man is of common occurrence, but I know
almost identleally the same wretched story
concerning a woman. Satan has no respect
for sex, and since women seem to fall from
greater heights than men, somehow, alas,
they seem to go to greater depths. I suppose
that we all of us fall because we come to
trifle with sin. You avoid the house that
Sas the mark of a contagions disease upon
it, and yet you can scarcely read a news
re but in it you will see the aWful de-
Y of some heartbreaking scene
uel in
which is as re
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ine
there for 200 years, and many of us have
allowed sins to enter our hearts in the
days of our youth which have pursued us
until old age and caused our wreck.
wesen are not exempt from sin God pity
tio men.
But this mob that hurried this poor
woman into the presence of Jesus was not
an honest compfy of men. I know it be.
cause in the seventh chapter 1 read they
called Him a deceiver, while in the eighth
thev addressed Him as Master and Teach-
er. In the sixth verse of this eighth chap-
ter we also read that they brought thig
woman, tempting Him, for they wanted
to catch Him on either one of these two
points, first, if He accepted Moses’ law
then they would turn the Roman citizens
against Him and condemn Him because
He would put another to death. If He re
nudiated the law of Moses the Jewish pop
ulace would have been His enemies, but
nevertheless it is a true picture of the
world. Have nothing to do with it, there
fore: as you love your 6wn souls, beware
of it. It has alain its thousands and tens
of thousands. What ruined Lot's wife?
the world: what ruined Achan until he de-
feated the whole camp of Israel? tne
world; what ruined Judas until he sold
his very soul for greed of wealth? the
world: what has ruined ten thousand souls
that are to-day shut away from God and
hope, this same old world, “And what shall
it profit a man if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul.”
First, the world is eritical. It will find
every flaw that exists in your nature; im-
perfections to which vour loved ones would
be blind, and which you yourself were
hardly aware of will be pointed out and
vulgarly displayed.
Second, it is merciless. It has positively
no excuse for the man that fails, and while
neve: offering to help him over his difficul.
ties when the tide 1s against him it laughs
at his despair and mocks at his hopeless
ness,
Third, it is heartiesa
giveness in the world
time
There is no for
There may be some
overlook but not to
of forgiveness has
8 disposition to
torgive, and this sort «
nothing in it of a helpful nature t«
lost, sinning humanity ‘ou who
to the world, may 1 say in
riousness, don't cast a at
that is a sinner for reason tha
are, or have been, or may be, jus
condemn in others. No one of
we are linked to the Son of
and walking heartily in fell
Him may hope to escape from
grip of Satan. Don't be unforgiving
that cannot forgive other
bridge over which must
and he who is unwilling {
makes it impossible for God t«
i k God we
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law's treatment
ymmanded us that suc
his statement i t
It was written by
of God The re at
eration to-day ir
Throu
'
0 out No man
v to cover up his min,
has been deep
igh to save the sinner from the search
of God. Be sure vour sin will find
A truer text was never written
vou must The wages of sin ia
I beg you. therefore, that you will
not allow yourself to be controlled hy the
law. It is like the world, merciless and
heaciless, and presents to you an enportn.
nity of escape from sin. but, thank God
vou are not shut un to it. There is 2 way
spening up which leads to heaven shining
brighter and brighter until the perfect day.
To this way I now commend vou
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Christ's treatment of a sinner. “Bat
Jesus stooped down and with His finger
wrote on the ground, as though He heard
them not. So when they continued asking
Him, Fo» lifted up Himself and said unto
them, He that is without sin among you
jet him first cast a stone at her. And again
He stooped down and wrote on the ground
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 wom-
an standing in the midst. When Jesus had
lifted up Himself, and saw none but the
woman, He said unto her, Woman, where
are those thine accusers?’ Hath no man
condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord,
And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I con-
demn thee; go, and sin no more.” From
verse 6 to if, You have a great picture
presented to you in this story.
First, the angry crowd.
Second, the infinite Saviour. If 1 were
an artist I should paint it, and yet no man
could ever paint the picture of Christ. 1
know of one who attemptled it and then de-
termined that he would never paint again,
because after working upon the face of
Christ no other face could be worthy of his
skill. I 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 it all as you stop
and think. I know why He was so merc
ul. You say it was becanse He was di
vine, and that is true without saying it,
but it seems to me He must have been es-
ally merciful because of the night He
ad spont at the Mount of Olives. I am
perfectly sure that that man who prays
much with Christ is ever charitable in his
treatment of those who have gone astray.
Mra. Whittemore's treatment of Bluebird,
the poor fallen girl, who becomes the mis-
sionaty to the outeast; Jerry MoAuley's
arm about B. H. Hadley and his prayer,
which reveal to the poor sinful man that
Jerry McAuley knew Christ, are but illus
trations of the spirit of which I speak.
The man who spirit of Christ
is ever gentle with the erring, and
up and down the streets of our cities men
£9 in multitudes \onging for just ont w
sympathy.
Said a young business man to me this
week: “1 have been four years in New
ork, most of the time with a hea .
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friemd, and 1 fs nave
yet ever
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First, He stooped down and wrote in
the dust” Some one has said that He did
it just because Hix mind was occupied
with thinking what He should do with the
sinner and it was much the same spirit as
vou would have if vou would zeribble upon
a piece of paper while your mind was tal
ing in #ome weighty problem. Bome one
hs suggested that in the purity of
His nature, standing in the presence of the
woman of sin, He stooped down to writ
because He would hide the flushing of His
own face, That dust that
feet gone forever: only God Himself
could bring it back, and vet if by miracle
He should bring it before us to-night 1 be-
lieve ] know what would be tten there.
on, “Neither do I condemn thee; go and
sin no more And I am glad that we are
not shut ap to the sand for a record of that
truth. It is written in this bo “There
is, therefore, no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus,” and this record
ig eternal. “Heaven and earth shall pass,
but Mv 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 the
grandest sentences that ever fell from His
Lips, and gives ux all beauty of His
manhood, ar well as the power of His God-
hood when He said, “Let he who is with-
out sin east the first stone.” I doubt not
the woman began to tremble, and she must
have said to herself, ywunishment is
upon me, for here ‘harisces whe
have made loud professions of their purity,
surely they will cas first stone,” but
never a hand was i fis i and never a xtone
was thrown, which only reveals to me the
fact that when men { !
men who are sinful
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Ho the man
development of chara«
match this matchless story 1
how the man y takes the blo out
f the word of God part
away from the Ww a
yment ympare his this
v of the divine Ron of God 1s more than
y tell, 1 bid all burdened ones
hed down because of sin to come into
presence to-night and you can hear
im say “Neither do I condemn thee; go
and sin no more.”
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The Example of Patience,
The example of God's forbearance and
the incentive of His trust help to prepare
us for that self-control and patient waiting
which are, perhaps, the most difficult arts
of living. Pen hers of the strenuous life
often forget that for one who dares to act
there must be many who are compelled to
wait and to endure. It is not the charge
which commanders dread for their com-
mands, it is the waiting before the word to
charge ia given. Action relieves the tension
of the nerves and occupies the thought.
The example of God's patience is not in it
self a sufficient incentive in our time of
need. God waits because He knows. He
sees the end from the beginning, and is
never tempted to gather unripe fruit as
we so often are. He asks us to be sharers
of His patience by the exercise of faith.
We can wait because we believe. He
trusts us in the partnership of work and
waiting, and we renounce and have pa
tience becanse we trust Him for the end
He promises ~The Congregationalist,
Work.
Work is given to men not only, nor so
much, perhaps, because the world needs it
An office is not a place for making money;
it 1s a place for making men. A workshop
is not a place for making machinery, for
fitting engines and turning cylinders; it is
a place for making souls, for fitting out
honest, modest, whole natured men. For
Providence cares less for winning causes
than that men, whether losing or winning,
should great and true; cares nothing
that reforma should drag their cause from
year to year bewilderingly, but that me:
and nations, in Surying them out, shoul
fin® there education, discipline, unselfish.
ness and growth in grace.~Henry Drum
mond. v
, Politeness An Attitude,
Politeness a to be what ness
really is, and DR Aad What Sods an
action. Fine breeding is not the mere
learning of any code of manners any more
than gracefulness is the mere learning of
any kind of physical exercise. The gentle
man apparently as the Chris ,
Ee Re
ings of others e 80 person
alwars both un-Christian and ill-bred.—El-
len T. Fowler, -
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YSCENT” BRACELETS
“scent”
novelti
The
latest
It trifie, with
Httle filigree balls hanging from chains
on the bracelet, the balls
tacles for the favorite perfume of the
wearer. Scent charms are another fan
of the moment, and take the form
enamel and gold flowers, each flow
representing the inside
bracelet is of the
one
i8 an extremely prety
being recep
cy
ol
el scent held
SHIRT WAIST
Beautiful shirt waist suits
in metallic-printed
made with the
with siot
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are made
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to at last learn
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Philadelphia Record.
WHEN PRETTY FEET SUFFER
It is a pity that certain employ
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inalienable right to pretty fest
find the situation among shop
quite so deplorable here as it is report.
ed by a Bt. Louis specialist, but they
admit that standing for hours at a
stretch certainly does have a tenden.
cy to produce flatfootedness.
“By this I do not mean that you will
not find hundreds of pairs of pretty
ane doctor. "Some of the prettiest feet
in New York are this moment hiding
their charms behind the counters of
our big stores, but some of the ugliest
“Most people who are on their fest
all day are bound to have trouble ovor
the shape and size of thelr extremitics.
Those who stand fare worse than those
who walk about, (or the movement and
circulation tend to prevent the flatness
which so many clerks complain of, For
that reason, the waitress, for example,
will find that her feet retain more of
York Times.
PERFUMED FABRICS,
From Paris comes a suggestion of
the revival of perfumes. The use of
late years and the adoption of a dis
tinctive color substituted. This has
been carried to more or lesa of an ex.
treme by some prominent people. A
certain young matron of New York
now in mourning for her husband's
father has long had a marked pen.
chant for orchid mauve and white, The
majority of her many gowns, her sia
tionery, her boudoir, all carry the soft,
unique tint. Another leading spirit
of society affects yellow, not only in
.,
apparel, but in every appointment of |
her home where the color is permis
sible. But now, according to the die
tates of Dame Mode, the individual
color will no longer be the correct
thing. There are now to be costly
fabrics, scented in the weave, that
neither flood nor fire can quite eradi
cate the subtle but distinctive
Various views might taken of
#0 seemingly simple suggestion
this. For instance, a man's paper
alluding to the
be employed by tailors-—each
ing a special scent, to enable
trace missing
Perfumes
subtly
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odor
bree even
as
in
that 1
a
0 idea proposes
firm
them
customer
are regarded
of
a8 even mors
indicative one's character or
personality than color preferences. So
are the olfactory ners
nothing
a memory
ever taint
prejudice
the of
#0 quickly and vividly
Or scene as
flestis
or
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NEW WORK FOR WOMEN
congenial occupation
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A TRIMMING SEASON
Not in many a year have trimmings
And
never in the history of clothes have
such exquisite trimmings been shown
Embroideries, passementeries
galloons and many new color comuina
tions in silk cords and tassels are all
used this season to add to the beauty
of the new gowns and wraps
In the smart fashions the touch of
embroidery 8 a distinctive feature.
Heavy Russian laces show an embroid.
ered design in colored silk threads
White, beige and pale gray cloth
bands are embroidered in Persian and
Roumanian designs, and so also are
vands of velvet and suede. There are
silk embroideries heavy enough to be
mistaken for passementeries, and em
broideries of the most delicate sort |
with the aesign worked on a founda:
tion of filmy gauze or chiffon. For
evening gowns these beautiful em
broidered trimmings are combined
with lace motifs, with artistic effect.
Bead trimmings snd lace with the
design picked out with tiny beads are
much used.
Grapes are a favorite design for |
many of the elaborate trimmings
Mounted on a gauze foundation will be !
bunches of grapes made of pearls and
bits of velvet.
Black velvet as a trimming con
tinues to be more and more the fash
ion.
It is used plain, embroidered in col
ored silks, appliqued with lace motifs, |
worked with gold, silver or steel |
threads, and many times the bands of
velvet are finished with little silk tas.
sels. Cords and tassels are much the
vogue, eapecially in black and white
silk.
Appligues of cloth are still in good
style, and in both burnt orange and
apricot shades they are extremely
smart when used to adorn a dark blus
or brown costume.
laces,
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THE KEYSTONE STATE.
News Happenings of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.
» opposite
hailding,
was awakened
n used by the
Hurrving
P. Watson
two hast-
Raising a
be scen in the
on guard on
i move and fired
the frame at which
Two more
the gang
the river.
r J
1 she
the
Mr
shots were
on the
Tavior fired ¥ ft i
Ann exam }
ers had ga
by breaking
3
started
that the rob
we to the bank
ate glass window
front. 1h ' vas blown off the
rault, overy of the gangs
Aresence made before they reached
the money drawers
John Booher, of Pittsburg. a Pennsyl-
sania railroad freight conductor, 18 l1y-
ne at the Westmoreland hospital ih a
~pitical condition. At the local freight
sation at Greensburg he was struck m
the right temple with a brick alleged to
have been thrown by William Delmore,
ys brakeman of the train, during a dis
gute. Delmore attempted to escape, but
was caught by members of the crew and
warned over to Officer Georee M. Huff,
sho committed him to jail on a charge
if felonious assault and battery.
The proiected trolley line connecting
Revnoldeville with Punxsutawney, 13
niles distant, has been built from the
atter city to the borouh lines, and wogk
¥
but
Was
immediately. It is expected that cars
will be running by the first of next year.
When completed the trolley will connect
Revnoldsville with all ihe suburban
towns within a radins of six miles, and
ovef two miles of track will be laid
in the borough alone. It will be the
greatest industrial improvement evet
completed in this section.
Abram C. Stamey, who keeps a gen:
eral store at Leesburg, a small village
near Carlisle, was bound and ged
by three masked robbers. The bur.
glare blew open the safe with dynamite
and secured ‘in cash and eigly
watches, Mr. , who is 61 Feats
of age, is quite wealthy and lives alone
above his store. This is the third timé
he has been robbed. .
Whil nning. Charles Long, ol
Shosmakerwvile. sccidentally shot him’
seit in the Jot, veral 1oes whee am
pty honk . Se Bis hamma
wn his