The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-19
REY. DR.. TRLuaGE.
The Brooklyn Divlne's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "rhe objectionable SIM"

forgiven unto men. And whosoeYer Speaketl
aword against the Son Of Man 1t shall be for
given him. but whosoever speaketh agalns
the Holy Ghost 1t shall not be forgiven him
neither in this world, neither in the world Il
co"'"'-Matthew xii, 81, 32. Gle found nj
p VI repentance. though he sought /
ca, " with tear" Hebrews xii, II.
As sometimes you gather the whole family
around the evening stand to hear some book
read, so now we gather. a great Christian
family group, to study this text, and nov
may one and the same lamp cast its glow oil
all the circle,
You see from the first passage that I read
that there Is q sin againstthe Holy Ghost fot
which a man Is never pardoned. One,
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 offered in his behalf,
but all to no purpose. He is a captive forthii
world and a captive for the world that is TO
come. Do you suppose that there is any one
here who has committed that SIM All sins
are against the Holy Ghost, but nv text
speaks Of one especially. It Is very clear &c
my mind that the sin against the Holy Ghost
was the ascribing Of the works Of the spirit
10 the agency CT the devil in the time Of thu
apostles.
There is an impression In almost ever
MAJ . BAAh AIltAL AANlc VA nv iAAhA
there will be a chance where he can correct
all his mistakes. Live as we may, if we
only repent in time God will forgive US, AMI
then ali will be as well rs though we ha |
never committed sin. My discourse shall
some In collision wlththat theory. I shall
show you, my friends, as God will help me,
that there is such a thing as unsuccessful
repentance; that there arethings done wront
that always stay wrong. and for them yor
Nan~ ~Aoby oNpna rlona pf ranaDtnnpn and CAnt
It carefully, but never find 1t.
Belonging to this class OF irrevocab|e mis-.
takes Is the folly Of a misspent youth. We
may look back to our college days and think
how We neglected chemistry or geology OF
botany or mathematics. We may be sorry
about 1t all our days. Can we ever get the
discipline or the advantage that we would
hsve had had we attended to those duties in
early lifa2 A man wakes up Mt forty years
OF age and finds that his youth has been
wasted, and he strives to get back his early
advantages. Does he get them hack-the
days of boyhood, the days in college. this
DAYS under his fathers roof? ooh, he says,
al I could only get those times back again,
how / would improve them" My brother,
you will never get them back. They are
gone, gone. You may be very sorry about
Il, and God may forgive. so that you may al
last reach heaven, but you will never get
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your soul as n result Of your neglect OF early
duty. You may try to undo It; you cannot
undo 1t. When you had q boys arms, and a
boys eyes, and a boys heart, you ought to
have attended to those things. A man says
II city years of age, ~ do wish 1 could get
| over these habits of Incidence" When did
I you get them2 At twenty or Twenty-Five
years OF age. You ann shake them of.
| fhey will hang to you to the very day OF
your death. II q Young man through q long
| course OF evil conduct undermtnes his physi-
| sal health and then repents OF 1t In after life,
the Lord may pardon him, but that does not
bring back good physical condition. 1 said
jko1a minister of the gospel one Sabbath at the
| Hose of the service, ''Where are you preach
ns now?' ''Oh." he says, 81 am not preach
ln0. 1 am suffering from the physical effects
! IT early sin. 1 can't preach now; | am sick.
A oonsecrated man he nowis, and he mourns
| bitterly over early sing, but that does moi
Arrest their bodily effects.
The simple fact is that men and womeI
| eften take twenty years OF their life to butid
| up influences that require all the rest OF
their life to break down. Talk about q man
beginning life when he Is twenty-one years
Of age: talk about q woman beginning life
| when she is eighteen years of agel An, no!
In many respects that Is the time tney close
life. In nine cases out OF ten all the ques-
HONS of eternity are decided before that.
| Talk about a majority OF men getting their
fortunes between thirty and forty years!
| phey get or lose fortunes between ten and
twenty. When YOU tell me that a man is
| hist beginning life, 1 tell you he is Just clos
ng II. The next fifty years will not be OF as
! much importance to him as the first twenty.
Now. why do l say this2 Is it for the
annoyance of those who nave only a pa'elul
| ,utrospection? You know that is not my
! yay, 1 say 1t for the benefit OF young men
| and women. Iwant them to understand thai
| sternity is wrapped up in this hour; that the
inns Of youth we never get over; that you are
now fashioning the mold In which your
kreat future Is to run; that a minute, IN
ptead OF being sixty seconds long, Is macs
no of everlasting ages. You can see wns1
| dignity and Importance this gives 10 tht
Ina OF ali our young folks. Why, In the
iivbt of this subject life Ia not something to
Ia frittered away. not something to be
,mirked about, not something TO be danced
mt. but something to be weighed in the
balances OF eternity. Oh, young man. tns
lin Of Yesterday, the sin OF tomorrow vii
reach over 0,000 years-aye, over the great
| and unending eternity. You may aitel
awhile say: AZ am very sorry. NOW l nav,
rot to be thirty or forty years OF age, anu q, \
Ia wish ! had never committed those Sins.
What does that am0lnt TOT God may par
4 HOh JOuf bNN
Till, YOU never can.
IN This same category OF irrevocable mis-
,akes 7 mt all parental neglect. We Deglf
| he Education Of our children too late. d!
| ne time they get TO be ten or fifteen we wax
an to our mistakes and try to eradicate tni
bad habit aud change that. but II Is 100 iate
THAT narent who omits in the first ten year
~ child,s life to make an eternal impress
sion for Christ never makes 1t. The chill
VIII probably go On with all the disadvan
tapesi which might have been avoided D
Parental f%aithfulness. Now you see what
mistake that father or mother makes WI
nuts of to late life adherence to Chris'
Here is a mar who at fifty years oil 9 say
10 Won. ar must be q Christian, n
Yields his heart TO God and sits In the Piac
~ nrayer to-day a Christian. None Oh u
san doubt IL. He goes home, and he say
.Hare at ffty years OF age ! have given m
heart 10 the Saviour. Now l must establis
! family ALTAR WhatI Where are you
.hiidren now? One in Boston, another
C-incinnatf. another In New Orleans, and yol
nv brother, at your fftieth year gong
esiabiish YOUR family altar2 Very well, be
ter late than never, but alas, alas, that W
did not do it twenty-five years 70!
When 1 was in Chamouni, Switzerlan'
7 sayv in the window of one OF the SHOPS
picture that impressed my mind very mucl
II was a nicture OF an accident that occurre
an 'bs ode of one OF the Swiss mountain
A company OF travellers, with guides, WEI
40 same very steep plaees-plaees when o.
- travellers attempted to go up. IN
~" as ali travellers are there, fastened 70
meahsr with cords at the waist, so that II on
svnnaa tbe rope would hold him, the rop
snppHed 10 the others. Passing along "a
most dangerous point, one oil the eulai
sIinned and they all started PREF
nJta But after awhile one more muscu.s
Rhan the rest struck his heels INTO the &c
ia stonped, but the rope broke, and dow
SUndreds and thousands oil ieet, tns To
vent o,o ,o,,iliss hound Il
esther by ties Of affection and IN many cas-
liking on slippery places oil woridiihs
Nd sin. The father knows 1t, M u
aanther knows It, and they are bounu an !
gnther, After awhile they begin 70 81
ssow1 steamer and sleeper, and the tath
Sscomes alarmed, and he stops, planning |
49,, on me crock or ages. He stops. .
HI rome breaks, and those who we're on
tisd Inst 10 him by moral n sp,rituall
lnences 90 over tho precipice. oh, tnere
inch n thing as coming Christ nSu
IA save ourselves, but not soon enough
HOW many parents wake up In t5s Iat
oart Of life 10 find out the mstake' Ine p