6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 11, 1898, PARDONED HER. Dr. Talmage Tells of Christ's Treat- ment of the Erring Woman. Jesus Wrote on the Ground to iiiustrate How the Sins of the Redeemed Would be Blotted Out A HKeproof to Hypocrites In the following Dr. Tel mage gives heroic treatment to a delicate subject and applies the lesson of the erring woman, taught by Christ, to modern society. The text used is John 5: 6: “Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground.” You must take your shoes off and put on the especial slippers provided at the door if you would enter the Mohammedan mosque, which stands wow where once stood Herod's temple, the scene of my text. Solomon's tem- ple had stood there, but Nebuchad- nezzar had thundered It down. Zerubbabel's temple stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take our places in a temple that Herod built, because fond of great architecture, and he wanted the preceding temples to seem insignifl- cant. Put eight or ten modern ca- thedrals together, and they would not equal that structure. It covered nineteen acres. There were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar, and silver tables, on which stood golden cups, and inscriptions resplendent, glittering balustrades and ornamented gateways. The building of this tem- ple kept 10,000 six years In that stuper sermon, he was workmen magn ing throng stood wild disturb of men are pull a woman wh icenoce ought ask that stonin less, d i8) + get plainant who had n wrong himself would oj “Go ahead, but be sure ti who flings the first isn maculate.” Then he resumed writing with his finger in the dust of the floor word after word. Instead of looking over his shoulder to see what he had written, the scoundrels skulked away Finally, the whole place is clear of pursuers, antagonists, and plaintiffs, and when Christ has finished strange rography in the dust looks and finds alone. y Missle ime- this he woman all The prisoner is the the courtroom left, the judg the prosecuting cleared out Christ is the woman ne of ctor, and says to “Where are the secutors in this case [ 1 have w mi Christ wrote on that ground. ou realize that ia the nly time Are they all Then scharge you: go and ) more.” lered what ww do that wrote at all My text says ae ever grout 3 ™Dan mig a wtafl wrote the straight ground fingers he would write must bend clear over get at least on one knee, or write on prised that he stooped down ing down from castle to ing from monocratic jeer. From resi the stars to designate his Heaven's front world's back gate From in round, ilvered letters f CON and galaxy on the blue scroll of heaven to writing on the ground in the dust which the feet of the crowd had left in Herod's tenspie If, in January, you haw ever stepped out of a prince's conservatory that had Mexican cactus and magnolias in full bloom into the outside air, ten degrees rlow zero, you may get some idea of Christ's change of atmosphere fram celestial to terrestial How many Heavens there are 1 know not, but there are at lesst three, for Paul wae “caught up into the third Heaven.” Christ came down from the highest Heaven to the second Heaven. and down from the second Heaven to the first Heaven, down swifter than mete- oFs ever fell, down amidst stellar splendors that through atmosphere, through appalling space, down to where there was no lower depth. Whether the words He was wwitin were in Greek or latin or Wb cannot say, for He knew all those lan guages. But He is still stooping down, and with His finger writing on the ground; in the winter in letters of crystals, in the spring in letters of flowers, in summer in golden letters of harvest, in autumn in letters of fire on fallen leaves. How it would sweet. en up and enrich snd emblason this world, could we see Christ's cali: graphy all over it. This world wos not flung out into space thousands of years ago, and then left to look om for itself. It js stil under the divine onre. Christ never for & hall second talees His hand off of ft, or it would soon be a shipwrecked workl, a de funct workl, an obsolete world, an abandoned world, a dead worid. “Let there be light.” was suid at the begin. ning. And Christ stands under the wintry skies and saps, let there be snowflakes to enrich the earth; and the ground Be Stoop- Arn Stoop down celestial homage to Jence above had to f to where a to fall star ing pi e door to writin From and stellation | meet I evehrows | Beribes under the clomds of spring and gays, come ye blossoms and make redolent the orchards and in September, dips the branches in the vat of beautiful colors, and swings them into the hazy air. No whim of mine is this, “With. out Him was not anything made that wns Christ the ground If vou should see Hig hand in all the how it would All verdure and folk age would be allegorie, and again we would hear Him say, of old, “Con- sider the lilies of the field, how they would not hear the whistle of the quail or the ng of of a brown lehold the not in made.” writing on ) passing Seasons, illu mine the world! as grow: and we aw a raven or the roundelay thresher, without saving fowls of the air, they ga barns, yet your Heavenly Father feed. eth them" the barnyard her brood, but we would hear Christ say ing, as of old, "How eften would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings:"” end through the redolent hedges we would hear Christ saying, 1 am the rose of Sharon" we could not dip the geasoning from the saltcellar without thinking of the divine suggestion, “Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt hath lost its pavor it is fit for nothing but to east out and trodden under foot of men." Let us wake from our stupidity and take the world a parable. "] ther and a Dominic hen of could not cluck for be whole as | Then, if with gun and pack of hounds {| we start off before dawn, and see the moraing coming down off the hills to we would ery the “The day spring high hath visited us:” or, caught in a truggling 1} and beard and apparel all with the whirling flakes, would cry out with David, us, out with evangelist, from on snowstorm while vovered we and I shall be whiter than snow there n picture gallery of Europe the ceiling an exquisite fresco people having to loal wearled and their necks ¢ £0 4 great the floor to look Testam Testanen we lv, that which w Moses was put afl ll as to depreciate the old t boat of th at on the alked wi the leaves which was 1 as that centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained & wife: No phalt or reject was wntten un; renesis no! stoops down and writes 1, let us read it e no less appreciation of paper that comes out of I would urge in the grass, 1, the Bible in the Bible the paper mill preciation of the Bible the Bible tn the sand hil the geranium, the Bit del, the Bible in the 4 But when Christ wrote the write? bat ap- le in the aspho soon ground, Ie Pharisees examine their own ~ aronss] comscience., But hing w Christ Bible never what did ’ he Yet as Christ 3 wr except nt WH v for did write JU CARN hy pocrites congtabu were a sel ar and having in persecuted WHE very penit verbemt hr gyv™ nypocrisy “forgive From ME the =» vacated 1 out into the fresh air, as Christ just rentence one them, | iframes) know they hypocrites. It was then The more faults and people have of their own the more se vere and censorious are they about the faulta of others. Here they twenty stout arresting and a» raigning one weak woman! Magni cent business to be angaged In! They wanted the fun of seeing ber faint away under a heavy judicial sentence from Christ, and then, after she had been taken outside of the city and fastened at the foot of the precipios, the Beribes and Pharisees wanted the satisfaction of each coming and drop. ping a big stane on her head, for that was the style of capital punishment that they asiond for Rome people have taken the responsibility of say- ing that Christ never laughed. But I think az he saw those men drop every- thing. chagrined. mortified, exposed, and po out quicker than they came in, he must have lavghed. At any rate ft makes me laugh to read of it. All of these libertines, dramatizing in dignation against impurity! Blind bata lecturing on optioa! A flock of crows on their way up from a carcass denouncing carrion! When on Binal God wrote the law, He wrote it with finger of lightning on tables of stone, each word cut as by a chisel to the hard granite sup face. But when He writes the offense of this woman he writen It in dust ms that it cen be easily rubbed out, and when she repents of it, oh, he was a mereiful Christ! I was reading of legend that is told In the far east about Pim. Fe was walking throngh the stesete of a city, and He saw a erowd nround a dead dog. And one wun sald: “What a loathsome object were as INeOnNgIstiencine ares men “Yes” on!d another, is that dog!” “his ears are mauled and bleeding “Yes,” said another, his hide weuld not be of any to the tan- ner.” “Yes,” said another, “the odor of his ¢ dreadful,” Then Christ, there, said: “But pesrls cannot equal the whitend of his teeth.’ Then moved by the that find anything pleasant concerning the dead dog, said: “Why this be ireth!” Reproved “even use Arcass 5) standing the people, idea any one could mu Jesus of Naz and convicted they went awa Surely this legend of ( ist is to be Kind £ In his words and ways and habits Word of eleven ind some god all For- and of have that dust, enough true. giveness! letter of palm some them thrones, them branches Christ to one word, though he write it than to have our name cut into monu- mental granite with the letters that the storms of a thousand years cannot Better write close our names obliterate. I must not forget to say that ss Christ, stooping down, with his finger wrote on the ground, it is evident that his sympathies are with this penitent woman, and that he has no sympathy with her hypocritical pursuers. Just opposite to that is the world s habit. Why didn't these Pharisees bring ope of their to Christ for excoriation and capital pun- I'hey overlook that unclean own number ishment? No, no. i man which they And so the world has had for ire in a damnate in a woman, offending wom: urges and ob and for ju one offense she while for men gation, becomes whose been years the w of brilli sit in high ny text AT and let the that 1 ww Hudson there is a on and all is & woman mills Ww nN wi Pots dnigl And struggle as of stranguiat Never mind. It is only hear to Lhe Im it? then stil] too discouraged to live. Let the grind right on library in the world has the widest shelves and and multi lumens and the vastest wealth is the underground library. It brary, the library of the | these library of the cruel world The greatest that which aisiea the longest moet linoos ¥ is the roval dust nd all be va) clasped brary the pages me Chars Ww opened, ped and these and as easily ne we take du f of it, and $e * 3 every res of dust and open it and read And the Oh! dust. It ia that stand floor yf ™ (Thrist the img the fal wi stead yard pen finger and th the nerve muscle an flesh as that which makes and the wrote 5 iil and even the worst f Christ's ean o ips upon that ocean and let then mil oc n opposite lirections § f RAN and woe if the f the ocean of the Divine mer Arn] now | can how Wi » mother ing a candle in the ndow night for one night, very late, a poor waif of the street en tered. The aged woman said to her, “Sit down hy the fire,” and the stran ger sald, “Why do you keep that light in the window?" The aged woman said, “That is to light my wayward daughter when she returns went away, ten years ago, my halr has turned white. Folks blame me for that which 1 burn every believe read kept w and ten years worrying about her, but you see | am | Hot I must not tell you | for 1] her mother any more about my trouble, guess, from the way you cry, you have trouble enough of your own. Why, how cold snd sick you seem! Oh, my! ean it be? Yea vou are Lizzie, my own lost child! Thank God that you are home again!” And what a ot} I bes joi will never be rid of the disease wr ha steadily worse, 8 for this terrible a the only remedy the cause of the disease from the system was t dock medicine, and It eure ing Although this was ten years ago, 1 yet had a sigu of the disease t ip { & nts ' | cOmpiets S is § the dar Ij ' per Rel » Doctors Can't Cure It! Contagious blond poison is absolutely beyond the skill of the d¢ may dose a patient for years on their LOS They mercurial and potash remedies, but he on the dition will grow N. is the only cure nd, his ¢ it is to and forces it ction, because hiel rien direct = ml ii w h g aMicted with Hlo rd , and had no effect whatever 1 was dis heartened, for it seemed that 1 would never be . cured. At the advice of a friend 1 then took BK BE. and beagantoin yrove, 1 continued the i me completaly, build health and Inereasing appetite retin W.R digestion, they the swell bones, ing of y fall out, and system he in MArrow stiffness and yusing the hair t lv . vk "oe | ly wreeking the oe & JAMES ELDON, A. 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