Evening journal., 1916-01-15
THE WAGES OF SIN


boy again inquired about his grand
father. Tho boy, remembering the
correction, replied. Grandpa thinks
he is dead" Jesus Christ would not
have come down from heaven to save
man from a figment Of imagination.
Sin is death to spiritual influence
and effectiveness. Why is it so many
people Of strong intellect. with genial
/ natures and of fine emotions are so
absolutely worthless in exerting any
effective influence for good? II is he
cause they love sin and are not will
/ ing to give up.
! once asked a young man in col
I lege why he did not help 40 save
other young men. and he replied that
/ if he tried anything Of that kind they
would call him down They would
say TO him. Jim. go home and fix
yourself up. We are just as good as
you are, and you know it," The
consciousness of sin was blighting his
power and paralyzing his influence
Sin Is Death to Conscience.
Sin Is death to conscience and the
/ higher feeling. One of the best evi-
! dences Of growth in grace is a deeper
1 sensitiveness to sin. And one of the
surest evidences OF backsliding is a
/ less sensitiveness to sin. When your
conscience begins to prick YOU there
/ is a growth of grace in your heart.
! Wardens of penitentiaries say that
the wickedest criminals are the
soundest sleepers. A man in a Ger
man prison who had killed four peo-
pie and burned nine houses who had
been a criminal for years. said he
knew he was not perfect. and had
made a few mistakes in his life, but
he was better than most folks.
Should ! go into this congregation
and ask If YOU were a Christian and
you would say you were not, but were
living a good life and were all right.
you would not be telling the truth.
If you think you are all right. yO,
may be sure you are about all wrong.
To hear some folks brag about their
/ goodness you wonder why wings have
not sDrOuted long AGO. The saddest
thing about sin is that il produces
spiritual lethargy and blights the
conscience and the soul loses all de-
Z sire for salvation.
Results of Continued Crime.
The pirate Gibbs in tho early his
tory Of this country convicted of
piracy on the high seas and SEN
! fenced to he hung. said that when he
first started on his life OF crime the
victims of his acts would haunt him
day and night But so long did he
keep up tho career OF crime that at
last he could with his companions
boar. a shin and kill an entire crew
without ccmpunction and then lic
down on the bloody deck with the
bodies Of the slain men lying all about
him, and sleep as peacefully as a
babe on its mothers breast Such
is the result OF sin
A woman once took a heavy opiate
through mistake. believing il to be a
harmless remedy. As soon as hel
husband discovered her condition he
summoned the physician and after
the doctor had administered an anti
dote, he told the husband that they
would have TO take hold OF her arms
and walk the floor all night with hel
to keep the woman awake or she
would die They walked with her un-
/, til in most piteous tones she begged
them to let her rest, she was so tired
and weary.
The husbands heart was touched
his sympathies were aroused. and hi
!. said Doctor. il will do no harm tC
! let her take a short nap, will it?'
The doctor replied. "If she goes tC
sleep in her present condition, she
! will never wake up" So il is will
this city. To let il remain as IL is
! it will die spiritually. People are yol
Z content in your sins? II you stay a.
| Won are Won will no losf eferna1l,
? lost. Strive TO keep burning in YOU
breast the spark OF fire called Con
) science" for when ii has once gon'
/ out il will be extinct forever
No Hope For Him Who Rejects Jesus
) The wages Of sin is death to peace
p and hope. Show me one passage IN
2 the Word Of God that gives the leas