Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-09-04

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ly repulsive.
A slight thing. 1t may have seemed,
| TO Adam and Eve to eat the fruit that
was forbidden, but when they found
| themselves under the frown of God,
stricken in conscience. broken in hap
piness and driven out from their para
disc how they must have loathed their
| sin and themselves.
Sin is repulsive to lovers of purity.
Let those. therefore, who are given to
sinful habits pause to consider how
/ they appear TO others. II the drunkard,
who shocks our sense OF manhood and
| decency, could but see himself as he
appears; if the desecrater Of sacred
| things but knew how coarse and ugly
his behavior is: If the tattler and de-
famer of character could but get one
squirt of his unworthy self as he en-
cages in his cheap commerce; If the
flirting. giggling girl could but see how
her distance from modest womanhood
appears to those who look Jpn her;
yes. visin on their part of sim: repul-
1 siveness in themselves would be a
mighty incentive toward overcoming. II
the thought Of prayer be not too for
eign to their worldly makeup let them
| lift their hearts in the language so IA
miliar to all:
| 20 wad some power the giftie gle us
| To see Oursers as ithers see us"
| Sin is repulsive to God, over and
over again on the pages of the bible
do we see the Hastings of his anger
upon the sin OF word. upon the sin OF
thought. upon the sin of deed. and upon
the sin Of disposition.
| II Cavalry revealed his love 1t also
focuses his wrath. - Go to the cross.
YOU who think sin a misfortune to be
1winked at for there does God prove his
Iabhorrence of evil until We never can
forget. So much does he hate sin that
he turned his face, temporarily. away
from his Son who was only sinless
sin bearer.
| The darkest hour of Golgotha's ex-
perience was the mysterious moment
when God left His Son to speak out of
a feeling of desolation: My God. Ny
| Cod. why hast thou fOrsaken me-" Did
God forsake him? Christ said he did;
and it Is not for us TO doubt though the
full meaning OF his word we cannot
fathom.
Do lou ask why God forsook His
Son? think Paul answers. when he
speaks Of christ bearing our sins in
his own body upon the tree. In other
words Christ was a sinless sin bearer
sinless. mark you. but a sin bearer just
the same. And when Christ took the
sinners place God turned His face away
| from the sinners substitute In order
that he might be able to avoid turning
his face away from the sinner himself
| Oh. there is hope here and forgive
ness and life for all who will take
Christ as their substitute. If God thus
accepts Christ as our sin-bearer. ana Is
willing that he should suffer in our
stead who Is the man that cares rap
for his destiny who will still refuse to
fit into Gods plan?
| Sin is repulsive to the redeemed spir-
its in glory God has therefore closed
the door that guards their eternal home
against every thing that would mar.
And there shall in no wise enter into
| il anything that defileth. neither what
soever worketh abomination. OF max
eth a lie: but they which are written
in the Lambs Book of Life"
| Some place have I read Of an old
man. a minister Of the gospel who
preached in a small chapel standing in
a forest of Scotland near a city. II
was the minister's custom on some oc-
casions to repair for communion ser
vice to the church in the city near by.
Now surrounding the city church there
was an enclosure to keep out intruders
land IN avoid noise when the supper was
celebrated One day the minister In
lauestion preached longer in his chapel
than usual and he reached the city ser
vice too late. AS he drew near TO the
house he heard the click of the en-
closure gate. but before he could reach
the spot the keeper had entered the
building where the singing was well
under way The belated minister was
left to the mercy of the situation where
he must content himself in hearing the
music and thinking of the fellowship
within while he, himself, must remain
on the outside.
| And the sorry plight Of the old minis
ter is sadly suggestive Of the other and
more serious hardness that VIII char-
ac,erize the belated hosts in that Great
Day. They must remain on the out
side and be haunted by the music and
the fellowship in the Temple not MADE
with hands. not because they could not
Ihave entered but because they dallled
with the command: BE We also ready.
In that hour il is that sin reaches IT'S
climax in its blight upon human life.
And in our hearts do We know. as well
as from the teaching OF the unfailing