Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-01-24
FROM SIN TO SONG. .
The Cry From the Chasm,
and How ii Was Ans
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Ps. 40: 1-2. We have here the n-
cord of the experience of David 1t
perhaps is rs remarkable as any OF the
many thilllng experiences through
which he passed. It is at least the
presentation of the philosophy
Of christian experience recorded in the
Cd Testament. II is so fresh and
concise that it has little of the flavor
of antiquity about it, and yet, new as
it seems, it is as old as the first sill
stained heart that ever found cleans
ing in the fountain opened to the
b >use of David aud to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. for sin and for unclesr-
ness" The christian experience of
mankind has ever been much the same.
There has ever been but enc means of
"Without the shedding of
blood there is no remission" David
relates the experience of. every person
who like him, is rescued from "the
horrible pit and the mirey clay" Its
not question of how David got into
the pit and clay. Many person wants
TO spend too much time telling how it
happened The Object usually being
10 place the blame where it does not
belong. One of the most forceful
illustrations that the heart is desper-
ately wicked is found in mans at
tempt to escape moral responsibility.
Somebody else to blame. There is
many wolf in the guise of man, that
is blaming the lamb in the stream be-
low for muddying the water. Many q
person neglects the means of grace I'M
iii they are Indifferent and backslidden
and then try to find excuse and COM
fort by blaming some other person
therefore. Every person in the hoI-
rible pit of sin is there by choice.
God won't let either man, angel or
devil push person INTO the pit of sin
who doesn't want to go. Every old
hypocrite who goes around telling how
good they would have been and how
good they want to be and would be,
if brother so and so, or sister so and
SO hadn't treated them as they did, are
simply displaying their ability in the
art of preyarication. Every person
morally is as good as he wants to be.
David was in the horrible pit. just
where every transgressor gets. The
difference between David and some
others being that he blamed no other
person for his being there And again
ne recognized his danger Horrible, is
The word he uses to convey the an.
suish of his sou. SIMS horrible. Its
@aymark is desolation and ruin No
Q son who ever got GOOD SOU are
nok at sin a'.d he awful cons. uences
hereof. ever regarded it as small
hing. What often is small to the eye
blinded by sin is great enough to ruin
a soul; aud that looks to me to be
large enough. 1t isn't q question of
the size of the dose of poison that pro.
duces death. it is the fact that it does.
When David found himself in the pit
of SIN and found that day by day he
was going down, deeper and deeper,
| (The way to hel! is down hill, he did
very wise thing. lie didn't do like
many person, try to fix himself up
before he called for help. The hor-
rible and the mirey clay" is a mighty
poor place for man to engage in the
laundry business. lie says, II cried
into the Lori,' and his cry was the
prayer of a soul in imperative need.
1t was the call of soul, saying "all
,ther ground is sinking sand" God
lever turns a deaf ear to the cry of
distress. His invitation is, "call upon
me in the d ~ Of trouble and will de-
liver thee So the psalmist says she
Inclined unto me and heard my cry"
Amazing coadesension. God stooping
,.to help his helpless child. Yes in
ciined and heard and helped; drought
me ur,' Gods help is always elevat-
ing, uplifting and ennobling. Ifevery
lost and ruined child of sin could only
realize that every step in the way OF
righteousness is a step that rest, re
self-respect and the regard of the
world and the favor of God, l believe
they would turn unto the Lord. God
does more than deliver soul from sin:
he saves from the guilt thereof "He
set my feet upon rock. and estak-
llshed my goinss.' G dgives stability
and steadfastness to- those whom he
delivers. Established my goings."
TIE psalmist said the steps of good
man are ordered of the Lord. When a
person is saved from the nit Of sin he
takes a "bee line" for heaven, singing,
ellis track l see, and III persue the
narrow way till heaven view" Too
many professors don't either see CT
follow Christ. They have no stability
character. They wabble along with q
good Lord, good devil" sort of life,
that yields neither happiness nor song.
Gods children track.
Miss Floe Butler met with rather
painful accident last Monday. While
curling her hair, the curling iron In
some manner broke, and piece of it
struck her in the right eye. burning q
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