The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-07-19
THE EINPARDONED SIN
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE THINKS IT ~ NOT
COMMITTED TODAY.

| But There Are other Sins That In Some
Respects Are irrs,oca6ie Category
of Awful Sins.
| New YORK, July 14.-In his sermon
for today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still
in the west ON his annual SUMMER tour,
chose a subject which has been fruit
full theme of theological disputation for
centuries past-viz, "The objectionable
Sin. The texts selected were;
All mahhef Of sin and hlasphemy
shall be forgiveh tintG meI; but the BIAS
phemy against the Holy Ghost shall not
be forgiven unto men. And whatsoever
speaketh word against the Son of Man
it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever
'peaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall
not he forgiven him, neither in this
| world, neither iii the World to COME. &.
| Matthew xii; 81 3s.
He found no place of repentance;
though he sought it carefully with tears
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, nnd how may one and tho
sam6 lamp cast its glow Oh all the circle:
You .ee from the first passagB that
re@tl that there is sin against the Holy i
! Ghost for which man is never pardou-
ed. Once having committed it, he is
bound hand and foot for tho dungeons qf
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 captive for thig world
and captive for the world that is to
come: Do you suppose that there is any
one here who has committed that sin?
III Sins are against the Holy Ghost, but
my text speaks of 5hb bspacialts ii /,
very clear to my own mind that the Sill
against the Holy Ghost was the ascrib-
ing 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. III other words, if d man had sight !
given W MN, vi IL dNotHeE- WIS RAISED |
from the dead, and some one staGaitis
there should say, "This man got his
sight by satanic power; the Holy Spirit |
did not 10 this !, Be9laebpb accomplished |
1t, or This hiai, raised from the dead |
was raised by satanic influence, til |
man who said that dropped down under
the curse of the text and had committed |
the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost,
Not Possibis Today
Now, do hot think it is possible iii |
this day 10 commit that sin; / think il
was possible only in apostolic times:
BIT it Is very terrible thing ever to |
say anything against the Holy Ghost;
and it is marked fact that our race has !
been marvelously kept back from that
profanity. You hear d man swear by the |
name Of the eternal God, aud by the |
name of Jesus Christ but you nevsf |
heard a man swear by the name of the
Holy GHOST. There are those here today
sho fear they are guilty of the unparg
donable sin. Have you sllch anxiety !
Then l have to tell you positively that
you have not committed that sin, be-
cause the very anxiety is result of the
movement Of the sraeious Spirit and
your anxiety is proof positive, rs ter.
tainly as anything that can be demon
strated in mathematics, that you have
not committed the sin that / have been
speaking Of. I can look off upon this
audience aud feel that there is saliva,
ton for all. 1t is not like when thee
put out with those lifeboats from the
Loeb Earn for the Vile de Havre. They
knew there was not room for all the
passengers, but they were going to do as
well as they could. But today we man
the lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry
out over the sea, Room for ALL" Oh,
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!
But while have said do not think
1t is possible for us to commit the par.
ticular sin spoken Of III the first text
have, by reason of the second text, to |
call your attention to the fact that there
are sins which, though they may be par
doned, are i'll some respects irrevocable,
and you can find no place for repentance,
though you seek it carefully with tears.
EsaT, had birthright given him. In
elden times it meant not only temporal
but spiritual blessing. One day Esau
took this 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. Just as though
you tomorrow morning should take all
Your notes and bonds and government
securities and should go into restau-
rant and IL a fit of recklessness and hun
ger throw all those securities on the
counter aud ask for plate of food, max
ing that exchange. This was the one
Esau made. He sold his birthright for
mess of pottage, and he was very sorry
about it afterward, but ''he found no
place for repentance, though he sought
it carefully with tears =
There is an impression in almost ev-
cry mans mind that somewhere in the
future there will be IA chalce where he
can correct all his mistakes. Live as we
may, if we only repent i'll time God
will forgive us, and then all will be as
well as though we had never committed .
sin. My discourse shall come in collision
with that theory. I shall show you, my
friends, as God will help me, that there
is such thing as unsuccessful repent
ance; that there are things done wrong
that always stay wrong, and for item
you may seek some place of repentance
and seek it carefully, but never find it.
Irrevocable Mistakes.
Belonging to this class of irrevocable
mistakes is the folly of misspent
youth. We may look back to onr college
days and think how we neglected chem
istry or geology or botany or mathemat-
les. We may be sorry about it all our
days. Can we ever get the discipline or
the advantages ,l,at we would have had
had we attended to those duties in early