St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-16
Register tomorrow. :
REV. HILL AT OXFORD.

Subject: "Be Sure Your Sin Will
Find You Out"
Rev. j. Wesley Hill. the revivalist
that is preaching a series of sermons at
Oxford NJ. E. church. last evening spoke
on the subject. BE Sure Your Sin Will
Find You Ont"
lie said:
''Stop. Hold! Murder! Don't do it'll"
That is what conscience says TO man
every time he cOntempiates that which
is evil, and the voice of conscience, the
voice OF reason, the voice of revelation
and the voice of nature all unite in
protesting against the violation of law
and echoing the words of the text in
every sinners ear: Behold your sin
will find you Out!"
Swallowed! Every man is Swallowed
from the cradle to tine grave; yea, to the
judgment seat of God. A man might
aS we'll attempt to hide himself or to
evade his own shadow as to escape the
kidding eye OF OmniScience. resist the
cutehing hand of justice. or escape the
terrible retributiOnS of sin.
Be sure your sin will find you out.
This is no dream, but solemn fact,
backed by the throne of justice, made
lurid by the lightning flashes of the law
and uttered by the voice OF infinite
truth and authority!
First-Sin will find the sinner out bv
branding him as sinner whenever he
comes in contact with understanding
beings. This is true i'll the very nature
of things, for SIN contains the element
OF its own manifestation; it reveals
itself under the law that like begets
like" The effect must bear the quality
of the cause. Can an Ethiopian change
his skin. or leopard his spotsf" An
Impure fountain cannot send forth
sweet water. The Savior recognized
this law when he declared. "Men do not
gather grapes from thornS or figs from
thistles." Mau cannot act upon
higher level than that upon
which he lives; character is
ever voicing itself. Purpose is its dial
plate and language is it's index. 1t is
with his being. Men do not always
| reveal their inner thoughts. and this is
true for several reasons. The mora!
sentiment OF the community in which
they live may be too strong to be detied,
or the restraining influence of grace
may be too powerful to be overcome, or
fear of the law may hold in subsection
the vile spirits that clamor for ascen-
dency. The only reason that some
men do not steal 100000 is the lack of
all opportunity; besides. penitentiaries
are numerous. detectives are keen and
relentless, and eXtraditiOn treaties are
operative in too many foreign countries.
| But, l repeat. the natural tendency of
sin is TO manifest itself, and, though
men may be governed by policy OF
| other selfish motives, thus holding in
| Chains their uaSer nature. every now
and then the breaKwater gives way, and
the storm of sin and sensuality RACES
along the shore lines of their being
Again. Sin will find the sinner out
through its inevitable tendency to in
crease to more palpable aud criminal
developments. Sin at first is little
thing. but, stamped by the law of re-
| production, it soon generates a foul
brood, ever increasing in strength and
numbers. until the Imagination is capt
ured by legion of fiends, the heart is
dominated by a host of hateful spirits,
and every thought is presided over by a
| platoon of devils! Men do not fall from
the exalted summit Of purity to the
abysmaI depths of degradation at once;
they do not become criminals in mo-
| ment There are initial steps in vice !:
at first, sin may be but the excess of
virtue; it may be but a step over the
deadllne that separates light from dark
|
the unhOly Imagination is fostered; evil
associations are formed. and tine early
stages OF vice are passed without any
apprehension of the blind night of re-
morse over blighted character. upon
which the raven of despair will sit and
croak, "Nevermore."
Sin has its transforming power, and
through this power, eXerted upon the
moral, mental and physical man, it finds
the sinner out. 1t reveals him, where.
ever he goes. as sinner. 1t announces
him as a rebel against the laws oil
health, happiness and holiness, and
brands him as an outlaw in the govern
ment of God and as all anarchist fight
ing against his Maker. No man car
hope to escape who INDUCES the treason
OF sin for single moment. He may
cover up the cancer spot, but it will III
crease i'll size and malignancy until it:
hellish poison is injected into ever,
corpuscie of blood, its fangs fastened
upon every vital OF his being, and he i.
held in the skeleton clutch of disease
| that Will destroy him forever!