Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
Deceitfulness of Sin.

Sin comes to the young man. 1t says,
Take game of cards--it won't hurt you.
Besides that il is the way men make their
fortune. 1t is only a small stake. See how
easy it is" The young man plays and wins
horse and carriage and a house-wins a
fortune. " See how easy it is," says sin ;
" it don't cost you anything. Look at those
young men who stick to their salaries
away down at the foot of the ladder, while
you are in great prosperity" The young
man is encouraged lie goes and plays
larger and larger; the tide turns against
him; he loses the horse, he loses the car
riage, loses the house, loses the fortune
Crack goes the sheriff's mallet on the last
household valuable. Down lower and lower
the man falls, until he pitches pennies for a
drink, or clutches for devils that trampe
him in wild delirium. "The way of the
transgressor is hard"
Sin comes to young man and says,
" Take this glass-it won't hurt you. 1t
has fine flavor. Take a glass in the morn
ing; it will be an appetizer. Take glass
at night it will make you sleep well. You
are i'll glow while others are chilly. How
bright it makes the eye--how elastic it
makes the step" One day you meet him,
and you say, "What are you doing here at
noon | thought you were at business !"
"Oh, lost my place" "Lost your place ?"
God have mercy upon the young man, when
through misdemeanor, he loses his place.
Every temptation in hell takes after him
Iloppled and handcuffed at thirty years of
age by evil habit Save that young man !;
he is on the express train that stops not
until it tumbles over the embankment of
perdition. "The way of the transgressor is
hard"
Sin comes to a young man and says, "Take
a dollar out of your employers drawer he
won't miss it; you can put it back after
awhile. Take another take another don't
You see how easy it is? Hundreds of dol
lars added to your salary in yearl One
day the police knocks at your door and says,
al want you" Discovery has come dis
grace imprisonment, loss OF the soul. The
way of the transgressor is hard"
But you need not look through the wicket
of the prison to learn, and to find the frozen
feet, and the bruised brow, and to hear the
coughing lungs, resulting from crime Every
man has found out in his own experience
that the way of the transgressor is hard.
| Sin demeans us sin is cruel sin is desper-
ate-it lacerates, it mauls the soul, it chains
you like dog it drives you out like a dog
it throws refuse to you like dog it wounds
you with innumerabe stripes like a dog.
There is a legend abroad OF some one OF
whom it was foretold that she would die OF
a serpent's bite. The father, to keep her
away from that, built castle far out in the
sea. He said no serpent could crawl there
but one day a boat came under the castle
and the daughter saw grapes i'll it, and let
ting down rope, she got the grapes and
was eating them, when she found "a serpent
entwned in the cluster. 1t stung her and
she died Sin may seem luscious and ripe
aud TO have all the wealth OF the vineyard
but at last /" it biteth like serpent, aud
stingeth like an adder" On have nothing
to do with its approaches. 1t promises you
robe; it will cover you with rags. 1t OF
iers chalice of luxurious beverage; it viii
fill you with wormwood, 1t promises you
throne; it will drive you into Kennel
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