The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-17
SIN SEPARATES MAN
FROM ALL THAT is GOOD
The Reverend Doctor A. NJ. Campbell
Tells of the Effects of
Evil Doing.

The Reverend Doctor A. II. Campbell
preached yesterday morning in the
Wagner Place United Presbyterian Church
on the text.
"And Aaron shall lay both his hands up
on the head OF the live goat and confess
over him all the iniquities of the children
of Israel. and all their transgressions in all
their sins, putting them upon the head of
the goat, and shall send him away by the
hand Of fit man into the wilderness. And
the goat shall bear upon him all their in
iquities into land not inhabited. and he
shall let go the goat in the wilderness
He said in part:
ut is graphic picture and very pathetic.
The little creature Is held whilst by mpu-
and thus loaded and doomed 1t is led off.
away from its companions. away from pas
lures. away from surrounding life, out mo
it is scared by the wildness Of the. desert,
and the parched rocks. and the burning SOIL,
and where there Is no water; and where
"Here the little creature is left alone. It
runs and calls and loses itself in cages an9
out, and 1t falls under exhaustion, and the
wind blows sand over 1t ere II can rise, ana
for q short time there is a little mound 10
tell the story of the sin-bearer.
from others. We commonly see it in
crowds. yet as we follow It We hnd tnat tne
together is a selfish one. and in time Of
stress among the evildoers each seeks only
for his own advantage and the bond Is
gore. ,o.,.r bod lonely life
II only he had not carried sin, and had not
spoken Of It, but had gone the way OF the
world, many would have called MIN Line, liner
We oft remark the loneliness OF Christ IN
his earthly life. The Lord laid on him the
iriquity OF US all, and one Of the effects on
him is to separate him from others.
'sThere will come a time when each man
among US will stand alone before God ana
render account. At present we hide our
will Win not be lost in the crowd. but Will each
sponsb Iat In an your supreme You
separated sharply from all others ana stano
alone facing your sins
"And sins separate friends. even as the
goat was carried away from all OF Its as.
soctss and Its daSs
friendship stands. But the day in which
a ssas To ths To- sns sa IS
stand. that day separation comes The
pillow that night is hard. The concord
which Milton pictures In hell ts not true
to experienced effects of sin. He'll fs full OF
strangers, and bitterness toward each other.
And there Is a yet more serious separation
brought by SIM and II Is IN dlvlCnn8 a man
against himself. Conscience goes one way
and conduct another. We have but dim
conception of what life Is which Is at one
with itself. We have no full experience
And most serious Of the effects Of Gin
Is in estranging from God. The sin-bearing
kid is sent away from all approaches to
the tabernacle Adam was shut outside Of
Eden, and the fellowship with God was
broken by his sin. Your iniquities have sep
arated you from God. Your sins have
witholden good things from you. Christ
cry on the cross was My God, my
God. why hast thou forsaken mel! And
that was mans cry in supreme distress
When King Saul gave up, It was when he
felt he could no longer get into touch with
God-'and God Is departed from me! The
eching sense Of severance from God has
been In the heart Of the human race in all
ages, and the race has cried and tried In
Its tears and its blood to get back into the
lost communion.
What an unreasonable loss to any SOU
to be out of fellowship with the holy. and
with the noble, and to be left to self, OF
to only those who companionshfp drags
down! Who shall reconcile the soul with It.
self and with the pure and with God? Who
Who? Now In Christ Jesus We who some
time were far off. are made right by the
bic cd OF Christ God hath reconciled US tt
himself by jesus Christ"