The Red Cloud chief., 1889-05-17
SINS AWFUL WORK.


! The Caldrons Of Sin and Death-aoma
IaAusnces For Good or Bad-lndoleaco
the Calaroa Of Iniquity-Advics
to Young Men.
In q recent sermon at Brooklyn DR.. Tai.
mage took for his subject "A Poisoned
Dinner" and his text wa from : Kings
". 40: $50 they poured out for the men
to eat And It came to pass. rs they wers
eating Of the pottage. that they cried out
and said, O, thou man Of God. there Il
death in the pot And they could not cat
thereof"
Elisha had gone down to lecture to the
students in the theological seminary at
GilgaL He found the students very
hungry, a. students are apt to be. 1t Is
very seldom the world makes large pro-
vision for those who give themselves to
intellectual toll In order that these stu.
dents may be prepared to hear what
Elisha saws, he first feeds their hunger.
He knows very well it 10 useless to talk. to
preach, to lecture to hungry men.
So Elisha, recognizing this common
sense principle. which every Christian
ought to recognize, sends servants on TO
get food for these hungry students They
pick ND some good healthful herbs. but
they happen to pick up also some colo.
Quintida, Q bitter, poisonous. deathfui
herb. They bring all these herbs. they
put them into the boiling pot. they stir
them up and then . portion Of this food Is
brought to the students and their pro-
lessons. Seated at the table. one OF the
hungry students begins Immediately to
eat, and he happens to get hold Of some of
the coloQuintida. He know it by the
taste. He cried out: ':POisOn, poison! D
thou man of God, there is death in the
potw CONSERVATION ID thrown over the
whole group. What . fortunate thing 1t
was that this student 50 early found the
co~loQuintida in the mixture at the table!
You will by reference find this story IL
precisely as I have mentioned it
Well, in our day there are great cald-ons
Of sin and death. ColOquintida OF mighty
temptation is pressed into il. Some dip it
out and taste, and reject it and live. 9th
ers dip it out. taste II, keep on and die
And it is the business Of every minister Of
religion and every man who wishes well
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the world back from its follies and its suf-
ferings to cry out: Beware! poison:
poison! Look out for this caldr0n! Stand
back! Bewarew
Sin has done an awful work in our
world. 1t has gone out through all the
ages, it has mixed up . great caldron Of
trouble and suffering and pain, and the
whole race is pois0ned-p0is0ned in body,
poisoned in mind, poisoned in soul But
be God that the gospel Of Jesus
Is the antidote. and whore there
was sin there shall be pardon. and whore
there Was suffering there shall be COM
fort land where there wa death there
shall be life.
Some time ago, you will remember, /
persuaded you of the importance Of being
in judgment Of others. At the
Same time l said to you briefly what this
morning l wish to say with great enpha-
sis, that while We sympathizs with the
we must denounce the sin, that
while We pity the unfortunate We must be
against transgrSssion. Sin Is .
Jagged thing that needs to b roughly
You hav no right to garland it
fine phrases or lustrous rhetoric.
You can not catch Q buffalo with Q silken
lasSo.
A group Of emigrants settle in Q wild
region. The next day q wild beast comes
1own from tho mountain and carries OF
one Of the children. The next day . wild
boast comes down from the mountain and
carries of another child. Forthwith all
neighbors band together, and they 20
with torch in one hand and gun in the
'ther to hunt those monsters down, to And
heir hiding place. to light up and ransack
he caverns and destroy the invaders Of
heir houses. So we want now not
merely to talk about the sins and
'ollies Of the world, We want to 20
behind them, hack Of them. Down
INTO the caverns whore they hide We need
to go with the torch Of Gods word in one
and the sword Of Gods eternal spirit
in the other to hunt out and slay these in. |
quities in their hiding places. Or. to come
back o the figure suggested by my text !
70 van to find what are the caldrous of !
lin and death from which the iniQuities of |
are dipped out
First-In the first place. / remark that |
unhappy and Rndisciplined homes are the |
:aldrons Of great iniquity. Parents harsh !
cruel on the n hand, or on the other |
rand loose in their government, wickedlv |
0ose in their government are raising ND q |
Of vipera A homo where scold- !
ng and f~retfulness is dominant is blood re.
alton to the gallows and the penitentiaryi
'etulance is . serpent that crawls ND into
he family nursery and destroys every
thing. Why. there are parents who even
make religion disgusting to their children. |
They scold them for not loving Christ.
They have an ~exasperating way Of doing |
heir duty. The house 10 full Of the var |
vhoop Of contention, and from such a
,lace husband and sons 60 to die.
o! 10 there . Hager leading awav
into the desert to be smitten of
he thirst and parched Of the sandf In
he solemn birth o . voice fell to thee
rom the throne Of God, saying: Take
his child and nurse it for me and I will
1--WE thee thy wages" At even time.
vhen tho angels Of God hover over that
'oma do they hear the children lisping
he name OF Jesusf Of travellers for
'ternity, your little ones gathered under
'our robes. are you leading them ON the
light road, or are you taking them out on
he dangerous winding bride path, on
4 which their inexperienced feet NAV
lip and up which comes the bowling Of
he wolf and the sound Of loessned ledre
md tumbling svalanchsl Blessed l. the