Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-13
GA LITTLE, SERMON EoR THE WEEK ENDS

horrid flattery ON her tongue stands in
the door to offer hospitality. and when
suspicion sleeps pierces our temples with
a nail? What siren Is this WHO. seated on
a rock by the deadly pool smiles to de-
ceive. sings TO lure. kisses to betray ana
filings her arms around our neck to leap
into perdition? Sin We read of the sever
ity of the black plague and yellow fever
and cholera and smallpox and consump-
! tion; but these, put altogether, fall inf
nitely short OF the ravages OF sin. Nay
they are but offshoots Of this parent tree
of moral evil The havoc Of war is nothing
to he compared to the slaughter. the de-
structive havoc of sin. Every tick OF the
clock is the knell of death. Every moment
there is a splash in the mystic river: every
beat of the pulse and the gates Of the
future world swing open. God only knows
when your turn viii come. Listenl What
is that? DO we hear the startling words
This night thy soul shall be required OF
thee. oh. God, call us not till we get this
wedding garment on. How the great Reg
istrar of eternity is kept busy
Three thousand six hundred souls
washed or unwashsd. saved or unsaved
tramp down the valley of death every
sixty minutes $500 every day during the
last week; SO2,4OO human spirits have
PASSED the boundary from whence no
traveller ever returns. Alas, that sin should
work such ruin! That so many OF these
mutilated souls should be borne on the
swift current Of time into the caverns Of
perdition. Three hundred drunkards swept
down the incline to he'll every day. And
, how many thieves and hbertnes and liars
| and prostitutes and murderers and hypo-
| critics are hurled by sin over the eternal
| precipice God only knows. Yet this mon
| strous beast Of sin Is loved, fed, fostered
| and worshiped throughout the world. Men
as sinners, they sin willfully, they sin
| systematically, they sin professionally,
they sin socially, they sin nationally, till
every stream that flows is stained with
human crime, and every breeze that blows
| is corrupt with a moral miasma and every
arrow of light flung by the God of day
from his golden CULVER is blackened. The
judgment of the Almighty, from age to
age, and the machinery of civilization in
full motion from Adam till now, have not
abolished sin out of any one country upon
| the face of the earth. Prayers, sermons,
| books, institutions, laws penalties, gov
ernments, all combined have not blotted
out one vice from sins black calendar
The life, miracles sufferngs cruclfixion,
resurrection, ascension and teachings of
Christ; the examples, works, deaths and
trtumphs of his followers the confessions
and warnings of millions who have died.
testifylng TO, their everlasting condemna-
! tion; the striving of the Holy Spirit the
curses of the law, promises Of the gospel,
the horrors of hell and the beauties of
heaven, all these have not driven sin out
OF one neighborhood of the world. Sin is
an immense river running through secret
channels from helrs seething ocean, till
1t broke out upon the world in the Garden
OF Eden. Ever charging, this river flows
out all around the world. Onward it
sweeps Upon its banks no flowers grow,
no foliage waves, but perpetual desolation
pitches its pavilions upon the sterile
strand, relieved here and there by bold
and scoriac rocks, upon which sit weeping
spirits, cursingt the day they were born
In all the universe there is no river so
deep, so wide, so swift as this. Its floods
are black, its waves are towering and it
goes surging and roaring on to the bottom
less lake, where everlasting lightnings
pencil every billowy crest with angry fire.
and helfs terrific thunders bound from
bank to bank and burst with awful crash,
strewing death and ruin all around, and
when the morning dawns the moral wretk X
age makes hell laugh, but heaven weep
Gods remedy for sin is described In the
remainder Of the text, for the gift OF God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ. our
Lord. Therefore. II we would be saved,
we must accept the gift Jesus enthroned
our lives. for nothing will cleanse us from
| our sins but the blood of Jesus Christ.