The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-06

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/ do not ask If you are sinner, lot as we OF
/ dinarilv use this word, we think OF one
| who is lawless, wild and protane. But
/ ask:
HAVE YOU OFFENDED IN ONE SIN
GLE POINT?
If so, "There is no difference" Man
would not say it, know, but God says II,
and It is written in the book, and by the
book we shall be judged.
Look at the prodigal. He was as truly
q prodigal when he had taken the hrst step
over the threshold of his fathers house
as when afterward you see him sitting IN
the midst of the swine, and trying to M
his belly with husks which the swine ala
eat
He is more degraded in the second pic
ture, but not more guilty.
Look at the leper. lie is just as truly
dead when the first sign of the dread dis
ease appears, small though 1t may be, as
when afterward you behold him, loath-
come object, sitting outside the city gates,
with bandaged mouth, crying, "Unclean.
Unclean" He was a leper, however, from
the first. and by the law dead. This IS
the teaching Of the text. If you have re-
iected the Son of Cod whatever your po-
sition, "There is no difference"-alI are
alike lost.
II is not even a question of great sin.
Many a man might plead mot guilty, IL
such charge were made, but first OF all
SECRET SINS.
:. l. There is a text which declares "our
| secret sins in the light OF His counte
6 nance" and another reads that All things
are naked and open before Him witt
; whom we have to do" In the light OF thl'
!, who can stand? 90,
y Not long ago in one Of the school build
- al
> placed upon the blackboard as an lllustra
7 ton, and in little time by order OF tn
1 school board it was painted out, for 1t hat
. been so perfectly painted that whateye
i position a child might be in in the room
e that eve was upon It. The effect was dis
n astrous. But there is one eye which neye
p slumbers and can never be painted oui
q Thou God seest me" The sin was s a
e midnight. He saw it. 1t was in Me-
e York or London or Paris. He saw /
Thus to the charge of secret sin" 70
must plead guilty, and "there is no ditte
~ ence." . .-.-.
IS SINFUL THOUGHTS.
m 2. But the charge is even closer. "
o. are responsible for the sinful though
:, which tarries in the mind by the consel
IL of our will Who can stand in the light
e. this? ,,
ct A distinguished scientist has made Il
|
lo a man stands out in the sunlight and act
"a his act, good or bad, flashes away to Il
e. sun and a picture which is never lost
made. And if he speaks, the sound bOun
away. up and up, far beyond his reach, al
ed makes its record forever. And if he
&C fuses to step into the light, or in the dar
N ness speak a word, this scientist declar
- that by the very thoughts OF his mind g
III tain physical disturbances occur VIM
9t- y,o1yo a raoord lastinU q G time.
lief [ remember sending a telegram IN
- western city, and shortly after reallzl
nc that nv message had been wrong l ma
no nv wav to the office to recall it. "Wh!
,ut said the operator, with a smile, ''it is gol
mo and is flashing over the wires now, beyo
l my recall" So with your sinful though
en- They bound away, and no man can rec
be them when once they 60.
oct The answer to this charge must b.
guilty"
BEGINNING IN SIN.
'ns 8. Some are beginning now. Held
lal- the fascination of the evil one and lul
led on by his charms they are rushing on
,op hell. On one of the busiest streets Of
CAV city of Paris stands a building fam
Oh for its beauty. Over the magnificent dc
as way you may read these words, Moth
Tho to pay" The admission is free, the ent
80 tainment within Is fascinating, and h
uIGus u gOullS men pass LllA oA5it IAA~ /
I've tails, the rank and file of them taking I'll
). first or last step to hell.
All sin is dearly bought, for it has
back of it. 1t blights the life, wrecks
character, and blasts the fondest hopes
49,. the soul. And when that awful day COZ
Sue. and situation is gone and character j
and and the hearts of loved ones broken,
1eir you are cast stranded wreck on
49,. shores of time, you will cry out in ter
7'.J 30 wretched man that / am, who shall
lzin liver me'-and there viii be no deli
ntly ance You will be more degraded then
,,,r not more guilty than now, for the chic
pu' Of sins is unbelief and that was the ca
use Of your downfall. "There is no diferen
the God pity you.
said Do YOU know the Bible description
the end Of a career of sin from the w
10 standpoint? Weeping, wailing and gn
an ing Of teeth" Without are dogs,
,r a sorcerers and whoremongers, and muir
ers, and idolaters, and whosoeyer lo'