Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-02

What is sinf Il il q trifing thingf
Sin is a vampire that is sucking out
the life bloodof your immortal nature.
SIM Il is a Bastile that no earthly
key ever unlocked. SIM II is expa-
triation from God and heaven. Sin2
II is grand larceny against the Al
mighty, for the Bible asks the ques-
ton: "Will a man rob Godg" answer.
ing il in the affirmative. This Gospel
is a writ Of replevin 10 recover prop
erty unlawfully detained from God.
In the Shetland Islands there is a
man with leprosy. The hollow OF the
foot has swollen until il is fiat on the
ground. The joints begin 10 fall away.
The ankle thickens until il looks like
the foot Of a wild beast. A stare un.
natural comes TO the eye. The nostril
is CONSTRUCTED. The voice drops to an
almost inaudible hoarseness. Tubercles
blotch the whole body, and from them
there comes an emulation that is un.
bearable to the beholder. That is lep-
rosy, and we have all got il unless
cleansed by the grace of God. See lie.
viticus. See III Kings. See Mark. See
Luke. See fifty Bible illusions aud
combinations.
The Bible is not complimentary in
its language. 1t does not speak mine.
ingly about u sins. II does not talk
apologetically. There is no vermilion
in its style. II does not cover up our
~transgressions with blooming meta.
phor. 1t does not sing about them in
weak falsetto; but it thupders out:
The Imagination of mans heart is
evil from his youth" Every one
has gone back, He has altogether be.
come filthy. He is abominable and
filthy, and drinketh in iniquity like
water" And then the Lord Jesus
Christ filings down at our feet this hu.
initiating catalogue: "Out of the heart
of men proceed evil thoughts, adulter
les, ~fornication, murders, thefts, bias.
phemy." There is a text for your
rationalists TO preach from. Oh, the
dignity of human naturel There is
an element of your science of man
that the anthropologist never has had
the courage yet TO touch; and the
Bible, in all the ms and outs of the
most forceful style, sets forth our nat.
ural pollution, and represents iniquity
as a frightful thing, as an exhausting
thing, as a loathsoThe thing. 1t is moi
a mere bemiring of the feet, il is moi
a mere befouling Of The hands; il j,
going down, head and ears under, in
a ditch, until our clothes abhor us.
WE MUST RISE ABOVE SIN.
Ny brethren, shall we stay down
where sin thrusts usl ! shall not i
you do. We cannot afford TO. | hav,
today TO tell you that there is some
thing purer than snow water, some
thing more pungent than alkali, anC
hat is the blood Of Jesus Christ thai
cleanseth from all sin. Ay, the rivel
of salvation, bright, crystalline ant
heaven born. rushes through TIN,
audience with billowy tide strong
enough 10 wash your sins completely
and forever away. o Jesus, let th,
dam that holds il back now break, ant
the floods of salvation roll over us.
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side a healing flood,
Be Of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make ne pure.
Let us get down on both knees ant
battle in that flood of mercy. Az
strike out with both hands and try I,
swim 10 the other shore of this rive
of Gods grace. TO you is the word o
this salvation sent. Take this larges
of the divine bounty. Though yol
have gone down in the deepest ditcl
of libidinous desire and corrupt be
havior, though you have sworn al
blasphemies until there is not one sin
full word left for you TO speak, though
you have been submerged by lii,
transgressions Of a lifetime, though
you are so far down in your sin tina.
no earthly help a touch your case
the Lord Jesus Christ bends over vol
today, and offers you his right hand
proposing TO lift you up, first making
you whittier than snow and then raising
you TO glories that never die. BILLY,
said a Christian bootblack TO another
when we come up TO heaven il won
make any difference that we've beer
bootblacks here, for we shall get in
not somehow or other, but, Billy, W
shall get straight through the gate.
Oh, if you only kleY bow full am
free and tender Is the offer Of Christ
this day, you would all take him with
out one single exception; and if al
the doors of this house We're locke,
save one, and you were compelled 3
make egress by only one door. and
stood there and questioned you, an
the Gospel of Christ had made tn
right impression upon your heart &c
day, you would answer me as yo'
went out, one and all; Jesus is mine
and l am hisl" Oh, that this Nigh
be the hour when you would receiy
himl II is not a Gospel merely fo
footpads and Migrants and buC
cancers; il is for the highl
polished and the educated an
the refined as well. Except a ma
be born again, he cannot see the king
dom Of God" Whatever may be you
associations, and whatever you
worldly reiinements, ! must tell you
as before God | expect TO answer i
the last day, that if you are nc
changed by the grace Of God, you al
still down In the ditch Of sin, in th
ditch of sorrow, in the ditch Of col
demnation a ditch that empties into
deeper ditch, the ditch Of the lost. Bu
blessed be God for the lifting, cleans
ing, lustrating power Of his Gospel.
The voice Of FREQ grace cries, Escape TO the moul
tain;
For all that believe, Christ has opened a fountai
Unllnlnlnhl 10 Tho Lamb WIN has bought us OF