A man standing next us us told us how he had seen birds plunge into the water. They had dipped down for a drink, and ice had formed on their wings. Then they had dipped for another, and another, and more and more ice formed on their little bodies. Another dip or two and they could not rise. Into the Falls they went.
Sin is as deceptive as the sparkling water of Niagara wintry rapids.
Dip into it once too often, and we are not able to lay aside the weight which sin gives us by clinging so closely. Since God demands perfection and we cannot achieve it, our sins do mount up. We are sinners. Our sins do have not to be what we consider the awful sins, killing, stealing and committing adultery. They can be the every day sins of our own pride, our own built in prejudice, our own ideas of what should be right and wrong.