Arizona republican., 1911-09-18
Minister Tells Story Of the
 Unfai|ing Detective
SIN, SUBTLE BAND PERSISTENT
Third in the Series of Spe- cial Evening Sermons by Rev. J. Harvey Deere, Pastor of the First Bap- tiSt Church.

ToIoNlns IS the tlllru or the series
 of special sermons by Rev. J. Har-
 Vey Deere, of the First Baptist
 church. It was delivered last night,
 the text being Numbers 32:23:
 We were living in Pasadena. Be
 tween midnight and morning we
 heard an explosion, but We attached
 no special importance to it as We
 frequently heard such reports when
 blasting was being done in the
 mountains. Next morning, however.
 We were mortified to learn of the
 blowing up of the Times building
 with its loss of property and it's
 sacrifice of human life.
 The shock was terrible to the
 whole community, and if the perpe-
 trators of the crime could have been
 apprehended at once the fair name
 of Southern California would, doubt
 less. have been besmirched by it's association with lynching The feel
 ing of revenge toward the guilty
 wretches soon passed into intense
 sympathy for the wounded and their
 relatives and into deep sorrow for
 the untimely death of innocent work men. One of the saddest days Los Angeles ever saw was the Sunday
 when the caskets containing about twenty mangled forms lined the stage of the Temple auditorium. and the pastor. Robert J Burdette, pro- nounced eulogies over the dead and invoked the strength of Heaven upon the living.
 Already rewards had been offered for the apprehension of the guilty parties. Money gets results. Detec- tiVes got busy. But time would fail me tonight in tracing their maneuv- erings. Many of you are familiar with the movements of Detective Burns, and some of you could follow him step by step. until at last he puts the lasso of the law about the neck of. the suspects in an eastern city. The McNamaras may be guilty. or they may be innocent I do not wish to be understood as pre-judg- ing. I only say, the detective may have succeeded or he may have failed. But this I know. there is a detective that never fails: Be sure your sin will find you out"
 Every one is interested in the way detectives work. All that have read of detective stories has been of less interest to me than my first hand experience. l may remind you again of the murder of the little girl in Selbyville, Indiana At her funeral there were ten detectives. each one hoping. I suppose. that would be disclosed to throw light upon the mystery But each was disappointed. unless. indeed. the swooning of the mother was viewed as a link in the chain of evidence.
 The deed was done in daylight in a thickly settled part of the city. and | no one could see how a murderer | could escape unseen. This the de- 1 tectives had to face. and when they | were unable to fasten the guilt on | outside parties, one tried to rest it | with the mother. I suppose she could | have been guilty, but very few. if | any. believed it. The mystery of the | murder is a mystery still The de tectives failed, but one there is | against whom failure has never been | Be sure your sin will find | rou out"
 For a time I misread that text. | and I suspect my mistake is quite | general. I read into it more than the Holy Spirit put there. With me it | meant only your sin will be found | 'ut. But that is not the contention If these words. They only say: Your sin will find you out" The irst interpretation is false. for many % into eternity with the sin of heir life undiscolsed to their feI- ows. But the latter interpretation is 'Orrect, for our own sin we cannot 'scape. Joseph Cook was right when le declared: '1 hold three truths to De self-evident. I cannot get away rom my conscience, my sin, or from ny God"
 l. Sin is an unfailng detective, because it works in the dark Imag- ne Burns going to a paper in Los Angeles, calling for the news editor md saying to him: 'I am going now n search of the fiends who destroy d the Times building. I shall go to san Francisco and SCOUT the town.
 shall be in Chicago till am cer- ain they are not there I shall go i ,n to Indianapolis. hoping to suc- ,eed there. if fail elsewhere" Why we could not get our insane lsylum completed soon enough to louse a man like that.
 Detectives do not work in the open. Neither does sin. Detectives would ail if they did. So would sin.
 When God saw fit to try our first parents He accomplished His purpose trough the serpent because of his From that day till now it las been difficult to find a finer Illustration of the way sin works. True. the rattle snake gives you warning and sin does not. But even hen he takes you unawares. inserts iis poisonous fang and is off Other ,erpents there are that accomplish