Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-06-26

able or any the world has ever seem. IN
the oath verse we read, Good gave them
up to uncleanness;" in the 10Th verse,
Good gave them up to vile affectlons,,
gave them up to reprobate mind" The
unceanness may have been sin OF an lnsig.
nfcant character; to be given up to vie
affections is to be permitted to set our
hearts upon those things which are not
right, and draw them to us as with hooks
of steel. but to be given over to repro
bate mind is to be hopeless. make an
appeal to-day in behalf of those whose
lives are in the least touched by sin; it
is dangerous position.
".
What is the greatest sin in all the cata.
logue as written in Gods word? II this
question were nut to men there Would--be
almost rs many answers as there are men.
It is not impurity, nor dishonesty. These
things are not even to be considered in
is unhelicf. When we read in the gospels
that the Holy Ghost is to come. it is said
that He will reprove the world of sin,
and that sin is described as not believing
on Him. To reject Christ, therefore, IL
the chiefest of all transgressions.
V.
Having no hope. I cannot imagine that
any of my hearers would for a moment
think of giving way to unbelief or taking
refuge in mfideltv. That is, indeed,
hopeless. 1t is said that Adoniram Jud'
son when he was student in Brown Uni.
versity came under the influence of fel.
low student who was an infdel. On his
return to Providence at one time he was
obliged to stop at n country inn. The inn
keeper told him he had but one room,
Nd hot 10 man N n.
posed to dying. .Iudson cared nothing
for this. and said he would take the
room All through the night he heard
this man CRYING out to God for mercy,
shrieking in terror because of his unbelief,
and at last Judson utterly worn out fell
asleep. When the morning came all was
quiet il the adjoining room, but the man
was dead. What was the students horror
to find out that the dying man was his
companion in inhdclity, and when he came
to the end there was no hope for him,
and infdeity prevailed him nothing. 1t
is an awful thing to he without Christ in
the world.
Without God. II You could imagine
God taken out of your life for a moment
it would be a position of terror, No one
would ever again say no to Him II they
realized that they might say no for the
last time. TO have no hcip in temptation
and no comfort in the hour of sorrow,
and no support in the day of death would
indeed be an awful thing. A friend of
mine told me OF man in the West who
had been constantly bcsought by, his
friends to come to Christ. and had resisted
all their entreatics He had been en-
treated by God Himself as He called him
in prosperity and in adversely, and at
last the calls became so marked that it
was as if God had actually spoken to him,
and at last in heat of passion he cried
ont as If he were speaking to God. ooh,
God let me alone" and He did, and until
the day OF his death it is said he never
AGAIN had even, faint desire to go to
Christ 1t is dangerous to resist, God
pity the man who SAYS no to Christ and
sreaks for the last time, and then comes
to the place where he had no hope and is
without God in the world.