The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-19
SINS OF YOUTH.
The objectionable SIM Explained
by DR.. Talmage.
Youthful FOIlies That Lead to a Lifetime
Of Bitter ReRrets-The Mistakes Often
Made by Parents-Early Train
ing of Children.

mage Tor MS latest sermon, the text
selected being from Matthew. xii:31-s 80
''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
whatsoever speaketh a word against
the Son of man, it shall be forgiven
him; but whatsoever speaketh against
the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiv-
en- him, neither in this world, neither
IN the world to come;" and Hebrews,
xii:l7: HE found no place of repent
ance, though he sought it carefully
with tears" DIR. Talmage said:
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 now may one and
the same lamp cast its glow on all the
circlei
You see from the first passage that l
read that there is a sin against the
Holy Ghost for which a man is never
pardoned. Once having committed it.
ne is bound hand and foot for the dun
geons of despair. Sermons may be
preached to him, songs may be sung to
him, prayers may be offered in his be-
half; but all to to purpose. He is a
captive for this world, and a captive
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 of 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 another was raised from the
dead, and someone standing there
should say: This man has got his
sight by Satanic power: the Holy
Spirit did not do this; Beelzebub ac-
complished 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
it was possible only in apostolic times.
But it is a very terrible thing ever to
say anything against the Holy Ghost,
and it is q marked fact that our race has
been marvelously kept back from that
profanity. You hear a man swear by
the name of the Eternal God, and by
the name of Jesus Christ, but you
never heard man swear by the name
of the Holy Ghost. There are those
here to-day .who fear they are guilty
of the objectionable sin. Have you
such anxiety? Then have to tell you
positively that you have not committed
that sin, because the very anxiety is a
result of the movement of the gra-
,c;eus Spirit, and your anxiety is
proof positive, as certainly as anything
that can be demonstrated in mathe-
MATES, 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 all. 1t
is not like when they put out with
those lifeboats from the "Loch Earn"
for the ''Ville du Havre." They knew |
there was not room for all the passen-
gers, but they were going to do as well |
as they could. But to-day we man the |
lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry out |
over the sea: Room for air. On, !
that the Lord Jesus Christ would, this |
hour, bring you all out of the food of |
sin, and plant you on the deck of the |
glorious old gospel craft!
Bat while l have said 1 do not think |
1t is possible for us to commit the par
ticular sin spoken of in the first text, /
have by reason of the second text TO 1
call your attention to the fact that /
there are sins which, though they may /
he pardoned, are in some respects ir- 1
revocable; and you can find no place /
for repentance, though you seek it
carefully with tears. Esau had a
birthright given him. In olden times
At meant not only temporal but
spiritual blessing. One day Esau took
his birthright and traded it off for
something to eat Oh, the folly! |
But let us not be too severe upon
him, for some of us have committed |
the same folly. After he had made
the trade, he wanted to get it back.
ing should take all your notes and
bonds and government securities, and
should go into a restaurant, and in a
1T of recklessness and hunger throw
all those securities on the counter and /
ask for a plate of food, making that !
exchange. This was the one Esau
made. He sold his birthright for a
mess Of pottage, and he was very sorry
about it afterward; but The found no
place for repentance, though he sought
IL carefully with tears
There is an impression in almost |
every mans mind that somewhere in
the future 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, and then all .
viii be as well as though we had never
sin. My discourse shall !
come in collision with that theory. 1 /
shall show you, my friends, as God
will help me. that there is such thing
as unsuccessful repentance; that there 4
are things done wrong that always
stay wrong, and for them you may
seek some place of repentance, and
seek it carefully, but never find it.
Belonging to this class of irrevocable
mistakes is the folly of a misspent
youth. We may look back to our col
Eege days, and think how we neglected
or geology, or botany, or
We may be sorry about
1t all our days Can we ever get the
discipline or the advantage that we
would have had had we attended to
those dnti..S in early lifR2 A man