The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-14

IL. 800. God tells US in His Word,
The way of the transgressor is hard.
(Prov Il. 15.) God has filed it full
of obstacles, and you cannot so on
in It without surmounting one OBJ
stacle after another. ] am to talk TO
YOU tonight about some of the OBJ
stacles that God has put in the path
of sin and ruin.
"The first is the Bible. You can
not get very far in the path OF sin
without finding the Bible in your
way. The Bible is one of the great
est hindrances to sin in the world.
With its warnings, with its invita-
tons. with its descriptions of the
character and consequences of sin,
with it's representations of righteous
ness, its beauty and its reward, with
It's pictures of God and Gods love,
the Bible always stands az great
lhindrance 20 sim II makes men I'M
easy in sin. That is the reason many
men hate the Bible: they are deter
mined to sin. and the Bible makes
them uneasy in sin, so they hate the
book.
"Men will give you a great many
reasons why they object TO the Bible
but in ninety-nine cases out of
hundred. if you should trace mems
objections to the Bible home, you
would find the reason they hate the
easy in their sin Men sometimes
say to me, 4 object TO the Bible be-
cause of its filthy stories but when
I look into their lives find that their
lives are filthy, and that their real
objections is not to filthy stories, of
which there are none. Stories of sin
there are: stories that paint sin in
its true colors; stories that make Gin
hideous-and their objection is not
to filthy stories, but because the Bible
makes them uneasy in their filthy
lives. The Bible makes il hard for
YOU to 90 on in sin. How often a
man has been turned back from the
path of sin by a single verse in the
Bible. Hundreds Of men have been
, turned out of the path Of sin by Rom.
vi. 23. The wages OF sin Is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Thousands of men have been turned
ont of the path of sin by Amos Nv.
l12. Prepare to meet thy God Tens
Of thousands OF men have been turn
ed out Of the path of sin by John Ill
1G, For God so loved the world, thai
, He gave His only begotten Son. that
whosoever beliveth ia Him shall NO
perish. but have everlasting life. And
: John vi. 81. Him that cometh to Nj
, will In no wise cast him out
An Incident.
Several years ago a man cam
: into our church in Chicago, VINO ha'
not been in house Of worship 70
; fifteen or sixteen years. He was
rampant inidel. l don't know VIII.
! he came in that night. I suppose be
I cause he saw the crowd coming, an'
was curious to know what was goini
: lon. He sat down. and ] began L
. preach. In my sermon | quoted Johl
Il vi. 81, Him that cometh to Ne, I vii
in no wise cast him out 1t wen
3 like an arrow into that mans heart
"When the meeting was over, h
got up and went out, and tried to for
get that verse, but he could not. II
went TO bed, but could not sleeI
Him that cometh to Ne. will in n
wise cast him out kept ringing in hi
mind. The next day II haunted hir
at work. and the next and the mex
and for days and weeks that vers
haunted him. but he was bound nc
to come to Christ.
n Gle came back to the street wher
our church stands. walked up an
down the sidewalk. stamped his foo
and cursed the text. but he could nc
get rid of it. Six weeks passed an
he came into our prayer meeting. an
stood up and said, Men and womel
was here six weeks ago and hear
your minister preach. L heard III
text. John vi. 81. and I have tried I
forget Il, but II has haunted me nigl
and day. ] have walked up and dow
thes idewalk In front of your churcl
y have stamped on the sidewalk an
, cursed the text, but l can't get ri
: of It. Pray for me- And We dil
and he was saved. One text frol
Gods Word turning him out of n
path OF sin and ruin.
1.-THE second obstacle that God Ia
put in the path OF sin Is a mother
holy influence and q mothers teacl
ing.
How many hundreds Of men an
women there are here tonight VIII
are yet Christians. Who have trie
to be infdels, tried 10 plunge dow
into sin, but your mothers holy n
fluenoe and your mothers Christia
teaching won't let you go the wa
you wish to. Sometimes II IS veal
: afterwards that a mothers teachini
- does its work. We had here
America a young fellow who wei
West TO Colorado in the mimi
times. He worked in the mines du
ing the day and gambled at night, ;
Ilso mann, rnfnpre do hut he gDql