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REAL JOY COMES
THROUGH CHRIST
Small Sin is Sufficient to OBJ
SCure Mans Vision
of His Maker.

In a sermon vibrant with a mess
age TO the backslider. the Rev. d. A.
Kaley opened the NTH service in the
simultaneous revival campaign at
Mizpah Evangelical church. corner
Main and Monroe SITS. Thursday
evening
The pastor took for his text the
passage. Restore unto me the joys
II salvation" from the Fifty-first
psalm. 18th verse. This prayer Of
David he said, was the prayer Of
the backslider. The prayer Of one
who once knew God and the JOY and
fellowship OF Jesus: one who was
separated from this Joy and fellow
ship by sim
When David sinned he was
cherries and estranged from God. -
Rev. Haley declared. Sin has
nothing TO offer in compensation;
10 cheer or hope results from it,.
The results Of sin are terrible. Only
death and damnation follows in its
wake.
Little Sin Dangerous.
1T does not take a little sin TO
obscure the vision or God. A little
sin left in the heart soon blOts the
sight OF the Redeemer from the err
ing mortal" To illustrate his point,
the evangelist told the story of the
student. who. locking through a
field glass, discerned a beautiful
flower Adjusting his glass. the
young man looked again to secure
a better view, only to find the
thumb prints on the lens hid the
flower from sight. And SO il is
with US if we let the little sin re-
main in the heart" the doctor as
serted.
There is no characteristic Of
man so universal "a his aspiration
10 happiness. 1t designs our life;
shapes our destinies. It is the most
potent force in the world. In the
act of creation man was made by
God 10 be happy. Only so long as
we remain clean of heart and piOus
do we enjoy real happiness. The
consciousness of sin creates a feel
ing of despair and of fear. There
is no real joy no real happiness
outside the fellowship Of God.
The joys OF salvation are bound
less. No mortal tongue can even
attempt the expression of the joys
of salvation. We cannot know by
word of mouth the happiness found
in the kingdom of God. we can only
learn by experience.
Sin Greatest Obstacle.
The slavery of human beings
cannot he compared to the slavery
of sin. The JOY of the emancipated
slave likewise cannot i'm the slight
est degree be compared to the joy
OF the sinner freed. Sin is the great
obstacle placed by Satan in the
path of the Christian TO bar him
from the JOY of the Gods king
dom.
Tonight then TO those Christians
who may have fallen from grace 1
make the appeal 10 right yourselves
with God. To persevere in sin is
fOOlishness for in doing so we
only deprive ourselves Of the hap
piness 70 which every man has a
heritage. The promise is given TO
everyone of salvation and salvation
means happiness.
TO see a man grow physically.
while his mind is stunted is a sad
sight; but a man dwarfed in spir-
itual grace is an infinitely sadder
spectacle. The trouble with most
of us is we do not have religion
enough. All things have growth
and we in our spiritual must have
growth also.
IF we have no desire 10 go 10
church: if we have no desire to
speak Of God. if we have no desire
TO confess our sins then there is
something wrong with US. Press
into the kingdom of God all you,
who have known the joys Of saliva
ton and lost them through sin"
The singing OF the hymn When
Love Shines In and a solo by Miss
Rhinehart contributed TO the sue
cess of the services. The pastor de-
Shared against the announcing of his
sermons beforehand, as ne was LA
bic 20 change his mind.