Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-07-18
TOO LATE TO RECALL.
REV. DR.. TALMAeE ON WRONGS THAT
CANNOT BE RleHTED.

His Opinion Of "ths UnpArdonabie SIM"
Not Possible To-day TO Commit It-soms
IrrsvOoabIe Mistakes Enumsrated-The
Signal Gun Of the Gospel.
NEW YORK. July 14.-In his sermon for
today Rev. Dr. Talmnge, who Is still in
the west on his annual summer tour, chose
a subject which has been fruitful theme
OF theological disputation for centuries
past-viz, 'The objectionable SIM" The
texts selected were: "All manner Of sin
and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men,
but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven unto men. And
whosoeyer speaketh word against the
Son Of man, 1t shall be forgiven him, but
whosoever speaketlA against the Holy
Ghost it shall not beforgiven him, neither
In this world, neither in the world to
comc"-Matthew xii, 81, SO.
"He found no place Of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears"
Hebrews xii, II.
As sometimes you gather the whole fam
lily around the evening stand to hear some
book read, so now we gather-a great
Christian family group-to study this text,
and now may one and the same lamp cast
Its glow on all the circlel
The objectionable Sin.
You see from the first passage that !
read that there is a sin against the Holy
Ghost for which q man is never pardoned.
Once having committed it, he is bound
hand and foot for the dungeons of despair.
Sermons may be preached to him, songs
may be sung to him, prayers may be Of
fered in his behalf, but all to no purpose.
He is a captive for this world and cap
tive for the world that is to come. Do you
suppose that there is any one here who
has committed that sin? All sins are
against the Holy Ghost, but my text speaks
of one especially. 1t is very clear to my
own mind that the sin against the Holy
Ghost was the ascribing of the works oil
the Spirit to the agency of the devil in the
time of the apostles. Indeed the Bible
distinctly tells us that. In other words,
If man had sight given to him, or If an
other 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 accom-
plished it, or, "This 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.
Now, do not think it is possible in this
day to commit that sin. l think 1t was
possible only in apostolic times But 1t Is
very terrible thing ever to say anything
against the Holy Ghost, and it is marked
fact that our race has been maryelously
kept back from that profanity. . You heal
man swear by the name Of the Eternal
God and by the name of Jesus Christ, but
you never heard man swear by the namt
Of the Holy Ghost. There are those here
today who fear they are guilty Of the un
pardonable sin. Have you such anxiety
Then / have to tell you positively that yor
have not committed that sin, because thu
very anxiety is result of the movement
Of the gracious spirit, and your anxiety Il
proof positive, as certainly as anything that
can be demonstrated in mathematics, tha
you have not committed the sin that
have been speaking Of. can look off upor
this audience and feel that there is saliva
ton for ALL 1t is not like when they pu
out with those lifeboats from the Loci
Earn for the Vile du Havre. They knew
there was not room for all the passengers
but they were going to do as well as the.
| could. But today we man the l1feboat o
the gospel, and we cry out over the sea
Room for alll' Oh, that the Lord Jesu
| Christ would, this hour, bring you all ou
of the food of sin and plant you on tn
deck of the glorious old gospel craft!