The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-28
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SUNDAY SERMON.
Rev, Wn'iam Powick breaches on Lust
of the Flesh.

SUNDAY SERMON.
Rev, WTUam Powick breaches on Lusts
of the Flesh.
The sermon in ube N. E. church on Sunday
evening was on "Relietous QuacteryD:
jeremiah 6.14 "They have healed also the
hunt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying peace, peace, when there is no peacev
The morals of both priest and people were
ve,y low. The prophets prophesied falsely,
and the priests bore rule by their means and
Gods people loved to have it so. jeremiah
proclaimed desh uction and the false prophets
proclaimed peace. They made light of sin
and did nothing to cure it. Their religious
qUackely was like much that exists in our
own time,
The moral damage Of the race resulting
from the fall is no trifing matter-it is no
superficial maady. The deplavity we have
Inherited from fallen ancestry calls for
heroic Treatment. We see it showing itself
in the pledispositon of childhood-its
affinity for evil. And with advancing life
we see its power developing until it overleaps
all bar riers and defes all efforts at self
refoi oimation. We see it in mans treatment
of God-his disinclination to worship at His
feet and to acknowledge His claims. We see
it in mau's contempt for Gods word and the
complacency with which the traditions Of
men are allowed to usurp its place. We see
it in mans disobedience to Gods command
and disregard for His cause, The ways and
thoughts oc men ate out of harmony with
CO. i a.. I. -.
ness of mans hurt and the depth of his need
ave TO be seen in the sacrifice Of Calvary as
nowhere else. Il required a cross and
divine victim to adequately express Gods
views of mans hurt And as the Judges
opinion of the law is much moie important
than that of the culprit's attorney so Gods
opinion of mans hurt and the remedy is
worth much more than that of religious
quacIs who cry peace, peace, when there is
no peace.
Sin is deeply scared malady which mani
fests Itself in various symptoms called sius.
Sometimes it is in the lusts of the flesh some-
times in the lusts OF tue eye add again in
the plide Of life. Paut calls them works Of
the hesh-aduItery, fofnicat;on, uuceanness,
righteousness, idolatry, wilchcrare hatred,
variance, emUla,ious wIajh. suile seditions,
he,eses envyi0gs, muIderers, drunkenness,
reveilings, and such like" And i,om the
very stisut mauuer in which many have
been healed we are driven 10 the conclusion
that they have been victims oG religious
quacks. Many we fear are slumberiug in
carnal security, deluded with the idea that
there is peace when there is not. Of those
who tampered wiGh conscience and uuth it
was said "for this cause shall God send them
strong delusion that they should believe
lie that they all might be damned" How
those who live in pleasure and are dead, while
they live, who love the Dance the theatre.
euch, e parties, and such paslimes more than
the prayer meeting can dream of peace is
an incomprehensible mystery. They will be
undeceived when they wake up in hell. The
ctteron Of peace with God is not the dictunl
of the quack but the new birth of the soul in
the image Of God marvel not that l say
unto you, ye must be born from above or We
cannot enter the kingdom Of God" And
among the inevitable marks of the new birth
are new moral constitution, new dispose
tion showing itself in a changed life, and
new spiritual capabilities. Neither cir
cumcision nor uncilcumcision availeth any
thing but a new creature"