Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-08-23


In order to understand the full force of this
figure, you need to realize, first Of all, that
our race is in a sinking condition. You some
times hear people talking of what they con-
slider the most beautiful words in our Ian
guage. One man says it is ''home," another
man says it is the word "mother," another
says it is the word "Jesus;" but will tell
you the bitterest word in all our language,
the word most angry and baleful, the word
saturated with the most trouble, the word
that accounts for all the loathsomeness, and
the pang, and the outrage, and the harrow
ing; and that word is "sin." You spell it
with three letters, and yet those three letters
describe the circumference and pierce the
diameter Of everything bad in the universe.
Sin it is a sibilant word. You cannot
pronounce it without giving the siss Of
the fame or the hiss of the serpent
SIM And then If you add three letters
to that word it describes every one of US
by nature-sinner. We have outraged the
law Of God, not occasionally, or now and
then, but perpetually. The Bible declares il.
Harkl 1t thunders two claps: The heart is
deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked THE soul that sinneth, it shall
die" What the Bible says, our own CON
science affirms. After Judge Morgan had
sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death, his con-
science troubled him so much for the deed
that he became insane, and all through his
insanity he kept saying: Take her away
from mel Lady Jane Grey. Take her away
Lady Jane Greyn 1t was the voice Of his
conscience. And no man ever does anything
wrong, however great or small but his con-
science brings that matter before him, and at
every step Of his misbehavior itsays, Wrong,
wrong.n Sin is a leprosy, sin is a paralysis.
sin is a consumption, sin is pollution, sin is
death. Give it a fair chance and it will
swamp you, body, mind and soul forever.
In this world it only gives a faint init
nation of its virulence You see a pa
tient in the first stages of typhoid
fever The cheek is somewhat flushed,
the hands somewhat hot, preceded by slight
chill why you say, typhoid fever does
not seem to be much Of a disease But wait
until the patient has been six weeks under it,
aud all his energies have been wrung out,
and he is too weak TO lift his little finger, and
his intellect is gone, then you see the full
havoc Of the disease. Now sin in this world
IA an ailmeut which Is only In its very first
stages; but let it get under full way and It is
an all Consuming typhoid. Oh, If we could
see our unpardoned sins as God sees them
our teeth would chatter, and our knees would
knock together, and our respiration would be
choked, and our heart would break If your
sins are unforglven, they are bearing down
on you, and you are sinking sinking away
from happiness, sinking away from God,
sinking away from everything that IS good
and blessed
SWIFT swIuEa WANTED.
Then what do we wantl A swimmer A
strong swimmer A swift swimmer And,
blessed be God, in my text we have him an
nounced. He shall spread forth his hands
in the midst Of them as be that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to awim. You
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