El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-01

posure. The man does not live who
would not be better off without tnem-
Much is done by the promlscuouS re-
lating of shady and lntemperale pasIS-
times picture their past mlsdeeds with
the skill Of artists ana the touch OF
genius. until 70 the young their dis
sipations seem very romantic ana al
tractive, and the youthIul minG feaus
its conclusions wrong and thinks that
il does not matter how low you live
Won can settle down" and shine as
glorious sun Of the morning whenever
YOU get ready Alas II does NOT WORK
ssTThen Nanasseh knew that the LORD,
he vas Cod How much better 1t would
have been if he had known 1t earlier
But it is encOura GANG to know that
he did find God even through his nara
eyDerience He found him when
sense of desperate need drove MN 70
God. He never saw the stars OF nope
until he got to the bottom OF the shaft
OF a wavward life We are glad that
even then he found God. We may
saw that there We're three things that
confirmed him in the knowledge that
the Lord is God
Sin Brings Its Consequences.
First he discovered for a certainty
that sin brings its consequences. See
what its consequences were TO him,
as shown in verse II Of this chapter,
Wherefore the Lord brought upon
them the captains Of the host Of the
king of ASsyrla and took Manasseh
among the thorns and bound him with
letters and carried him to Babylon"
He was captured hiding in the brush
like a common fugitive and carried
ike a slave to a foreign city. Manas-
sen got caught and then he repented.
His repentance was genuine too We
sometimes speak slurringly Of the man
who does not repent till he gets caught,
and we argue that that is evidence
l. 7e
does il not often happen that man
IS not certainty convinced Of the mex
ora bleness Of moral law until he does
get caught And people fail to be-
lieve that there is a God IN heaven
when they do not apprehend that moral
law is inexorabie.
Men persuade themselves that they
will be exceptions, that they can play
with the fire and not get burned, that
they can play with the asp OF sin and
not get stung- The very benevolence
of nature her quickness to forgive
and repair, especially in youth, mis-
leads them into believing that they can
transgress forever and not suffer. PeO-
pie do not know God when they are in
that frame Of mind That viii have 20
be broken up first OF all When by
bitter expe-ianca a man discovers that
whatsoever man soWetns that snali
he also reap then ne also percelEes
that God is not mockcd- ana II ne
viii follow that thread, he viii soon
know that he Lord, he is God.
God MercifuI to PardOS
Second, he found that God was me-
eiful to pardon and help in his moral
distress Verse u says, And when he
was in affliction, he besOught the Lord
his God and humbled himself greatly
before the God OF his fathers-and he
was entreated OF him and heard his
suppIication-" In the record in the
chronicles Of the kings mention was
made Of how God was entreated OF
Aanasseh. So David said: 4 was
brought low and he helped me" 50,
the prodigaI son fell at his fathers
feet with broken hearted confession
of his sin, and the father lifted him
up and kissed away his words Of sor-
row. So viii he do for all A young
man who was living wrong and upon
whose face there were the marks OF
dissipation, was walking along
suburban street in one OF our cities
He was thinking OF his life. and dis
gusted with his sin From q neigh
boring balcony covered with vines, he
heard a young wOman's voice singing,
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold Of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
InterpOsed His precious blood"