Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-18
WAGES OF SIN"
EXPLAINED BY
DR.. M'LELLAN
SAN ANTONIO PASTOR breaches
FIRST OF SERIES OF EvANGE-
LIsTIC SERMONS.
REVIVAL TENT IS MOVED TO NEAR
CORNER OF TENTH AND ELIZA
BETH STREETS.

oth' tih ~ bl'hihH VI ~ WV YIN
revival campaign in Brownsville at the tent
auditorium on IT. Charles street last night
when Dr.. Hugh Mcclellan of San Antonio
preached the first sermon of his series.
Opening the meeting, DIR. George Mae
Dougall, rector of the Church Of the Ad-
vent, read from the scripture the passage
containing the verse: "The wages Of sin j.
death, but the gift Of God j. eternal life
through Jesus Christi, our Lord" On these
words DIR. Mcclellan based his sermon.
"Wages," he said, sis a poor word to
express the idea that the word in the
Greek testament held. The word in the
original can nor be better translated per-
haps, by "A single word in English, than n
wages But ii You were To work all day
ploughing "a mans field, let us say, and at
evening, covered with CRIME and sweat.
were to 90 to him for your reward only To
have him drop into your outstretched hand
a scorpion, a serpent, a tarantula-wonld
YOU call it wages that he had given you!
Even so are the wages of SIM"
'The English language has been called
a kissing language" said Dr.. Mcclellan at
another point in his sermon. .By this j.
meant that To speak English one must nj
times use words that call for an explosive
sound. The word hiss itself j. such a
word; like twist and this and hosts of
others. Sin j. such a word. And some in
fancy have found in the word sin the hiss
of the serpent, for sin, like the serpent in
Eden, drives man from perfect happiness
into a Punishment from happiness. Others
have found in the word sin "A suggestion of
the hiss Of the lash, for sin. like a soaring
whip, lays onto the quivering body and soul
with n relentless lash. Still others have
found in the word the premonition Oh the
erackle of flames, for fire itself does not
consume more certainly than sin. The
shadow Of all are there, for sin like the
serpent, the whip and the flame will kill
and mutilate and torture the offender"
Some Of the speakers striking phrases
follow:
1Was Paul. in saying this of the wages
of sin, thinking of the tabled Old Man of
the sta. ld~ttililE uiii~'i VII Nv bH'n -
a luckless sailor wandering by the seas
edge and once on his victims back, never
quitting him until, exhausted, he should
fall on the cruel rocks of that desert shore
To diel Was Paul thinking, perhaps of the
old custom Of hanging around the neck OF
the murderer the body of the man he had
killed. 10 stay with him day and night, rot
ting. lie may have been. and rightly, for
the tenacity of in j. that of the Old Man
bv the Sea: and the aftermath Of in J.
more horrible than that daasiing body
'Sin nj last will %rn~lavc the will itself.
When the will l. c%n-laved the king i N
chains. When the will loses sway the cap-
tain j. dead upon the bridge
After describing a waier-loggcd DER
lict blown about by the winds. drawn
hithcr and yonder by tides and vagrant
current. at may be that some happy COM
binatinn Of the elements may bring q mas
lterIe-s derelict drifting slowly into some
quiet bay. To ground AT last, IL wander
insS over. upon the re>tful sands. But no
life that l. without direction, no man with
ont will power. no man without determine
ton and decision will ever enter the quiet
harbor within that greatest Of Golden
Gates. There j. no hope for the human
derelict-no hope save the taking Of a
Master and a crew.
..Sin comes to all Of "a in two ways:
first, in temptation, second IN example. But
| would not have YOU think that a sinner
j. the victim Of opportunity or Of example.
IA life of sin j. always a life of choice.
..The wages of sin j. physical death, too.
III do not claim that We ministers a a
class are saturated with righteousness.
Life insurance tables do show, however,
that ministers are the best Of all insur-
ance risks: that they live longer, in the
average. than men in any other trade or
calling. They live longer because most of
them live temperate. righteous lives. The
worst risks Of all. those who die soonest.
are the men who sell intoxicants over the
bar. Now. morali-tic n that may seem TO
YOU. il does not come from the Book. IL
is the tabulated knowledge OF the insur-
ance companies, whose records have never
yet lied"
This morning the tent in which the re-
viyal is being held was removed to a site
ON Elizabeth street, half a block west of
the post Office. where it had been originally
MANNED to place it. With a central loca-
ton a crowd more worthy of DIR. McLef-
lan's power will be assured.
At 10 o'clock this morning, during the
moving of the tent. the service was held IN
the Presbyterian church. Tonight at 40
o'clock the sermon will be delivered IN the