Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-02-14
GRAND SERMONS.
Continued from First Pugel


low lands, a place of slavery,
where you are oppressed and where
you labor without pay. Come into
land flowing with milk and
honey Gods eye is always upon
US, day and night. Satan deceives
you, he has coil OF rope around
you to draw you down to destruc-
ton. AS high as the heavens are
above the earth so is the forgive
ness of God to themsthat fear him.
AS far as the east is from the west
so the Lord removes our sins from
him. Do you known how far that
is? You may start to find the east
and you go on and on, and stop
where you started. 1t is east and
west still. have sins but fud tor
giveness, God puts them away; he
puts them behind him There are
places in the ocean whose depths
man has never been able to fathom.
God casts our sins into the sea.
He can't see them. Sometimes we
remember our sins, but God never
does-he forgets them. HezekIah
became proud and naughty. God
said to him, "TurL your face to the
wall, Hezekiah, and die. "Must
l die?" How he pleaded with God.
God can't stand an appeal for
mercy. I say it reverently, be has
to come down to tit "breaks him
all up. I say it reverently, it is
the language of the day. God says
he will put our sins behind his
back. That's the way God does it..
He never looks at them again-he
never SEES them again. That's the
abundance of forgiveness. l fancy
our sins are between God s face and
ours wher we go to him, and he
just takes them and puts them be-
hind him. That's the way he for
gives. The are gone henceforth
and forever.
Here the preacher drew word
picture of a storm he saw arise
while he was on one of the peaks of
the Alps several years ago. 1t was
lovely day. Not a cloud was to
he seen, not a speck in the sky
Then small specks of vapor began
to rise. then increased in number.
Soon the sun had drawn up the ir-
regular vaporous rings until they
became clouds Then the sky was
shut out by great frowning clouds
and the forked lightning began to
play, then the sheet lighting, and
the roar of thunder was heard.
Then the rain fell and he was in the
midst of an Alpine storm, something
he had wanted to see for many
years. Such a picture as he drew
cannot be put on paper. 1t must
be described by the words of the
one who saw it. So wildly was it
portrayed that one could almost see
the lightnlng's flash and hear the
roll of thunder. Out OF all the many
good things that DR.. Pentecost has
said since he has. been here this
picture was the most beautiful-we
will not say that, either-but it
was so different from anything else
the preacher has given us. "Noth-
ing could be prettier. is heard on
all sides.
4he Doctor compared man S
/ progress in sin to the storm in the
Alps. First one sin, a little sin,
then another and another growing
larger and wois and worse, until
they rise up before God like a great
black cloud. The darkness settles
about and the thunder bolt Of death
/ strikes-no. God by his Infinite
power blots out the back clouds,
and the man does not die.
DR.. Pentecost spake OF the power
of God to save every sinner, no
matter how great. He told Of a
Conversation be had with an in6del
in which he made light of God
word. condemned in strongest
terms the sinful acts of the illustri-
Gus bible characters and pointed
their sins. The Doctor replied:
"You haven't read Bunyon S
"Grace Astounding, - or you haven't
gumption enough to understand it.
You are telling me what their old
nature was. Now tell me what
sort of men they were after
grace got hold OF them. All men by
nature are as sinful as they were.
God S grace is equal for all. l say
to you to night, you must take it or