The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-25

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West on his annual summer tour.
chose a subject which has been Q
fruitful theme Of theological dis
puiation for centuries past, viz
THE Tnpardonable Gin" The
texts selected were: "All manner
of sin and blasphemy shall be for
given unto mon: but the blasphc-
my against the Holy Ghost shall
not be forgiven unto men. And
shoseeyer speaketh a word against
cue Son Of man, it shall be sorgiv-
ca him; but whatsoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it shall
not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, neither in the world TO
come Matthew xii, 81, 81.
"He fonnd no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with
tears.v Hebrews xii, LIZ.
AS sometimes Won gather the
whole family around the evening
stand to hear some book read; 70
now we gather "a great Christian
family group--to study this text;
and now may one and the same
lamp cast its glow nall the circlet
You see from the first passage
that / read that there is q sin
against the Holy Ghost for which
man IS never pardoned. Once
having committed III, lie Is bound
hand and foot for ths dungeons of
despair. Sermons may be preach
ed to him, songs may be sung to
him, prayers may be- offered in his
behalf butall u no purpose. He
Ia a captive for Tins world, and a
captive for the world that is to
come. Doyou suppose that there
10 any one here who committed
that sin? Allsins are against the
Holy Ghost but my text speaks
of one especially 1t is very clear
to nv own mind that tho sin
against the Holy Ghost was the
ascribing Of fireworks Of the Spirit
to the agency Of the devil in the
time Of the apostles. r Indeed, the
Bible distinctly tells Us that. In
other words, III anau had sight
given to him, or if another was
raised from the dead, and some
one standing there should say,
"This man got his sight by satanic
power; the Holy Spirit did not do
this, Beelzebub accomplished it,"
or, sThis man raised from the dead
was raised by satanic influence,
the man who said that dropped
down under the curse of the text,
and had committed the fatal sin
against the Holy Ghost. + j..
Now, / don't think it is possible
in this day tocommit that sin. /
think it was possible only in apos-
toIic times. Butitis d very terri
BILE thing ever to say anything
against the Holy Ghost, and it is
a marked fact that our race has
been maryelously kept back from.
profanity. You hear man swear
by the name Of the Eternal God,
and by the nameof Jesus Christ,
but you never heard Il man swear
by the name Of the Holy Ghost
There are those here today who
fear they are guilty Of the unpar-I
donable sin. Have you such anXi-H
ety. Then / have to tell you pos
itively that you hive not commit
ted that sin, because the very anx-
iety is the result of the movement
OF the gracious Spirit, and your
anxiety is proof positive, as cer-I
tainly as anything that can be de-
monstrated in mathematics, that
you have not committed the sin
That ! have been speaking Of. ]
can look off upon this audience
and feel that there is salvation for
ali 1t is not like when they put
cut with those life-boats from the
Loeb Earn for the Villa du
Havre, They knew that there was
not room for all of the passengers,
but they were going 10 do rs we'll
as they could. But today we man
tho life-boat Of the gospel, and we
cry ont over the sea, "Room for
alllp Oh that the Lord Jesus
Christ, would, this hour, bring you
all out Of the flood of sin, and
plant you on the deck of the glo-
rious old gospel craft
But while / have said / do notl
think it is possible for us to com