The Washington herald., 1918-02-18
Deliberate Acts Which Break Moral
Laws Are Always Followed by Suf-
ferings in Body and Stings of Con-
science-The Man Who Transgresses
and Escapes Earthly Punishment
Will Go to Hell.
EVENING SERMON
Gods Detective.

may commit a sin and you may not
Immediately suffer for that sin.
There are other sins, that IL you
commit, you will have to suffer for
Immediately. You may wait for
weeks. or months. and possibly
years, before the suffering will
come to you physically for having
violated a moral law and trampled
Gods law beneath your feet.
So therefore, you have got a grave
out there with your baby lying in 1t
because some other devil wouldn't be
decent So, you have got to carry
your baby out in the graveyard and
bury 1t. just to pay for the transgres-
sion of some other Godforsaken repro
bate. oh, ii makes me hot! You see,
you can't contine il. II you could
confine it to yourself, why, that
wouldn't be so bad, but you can't.
Somebody else has got to suffer for
it. 1t will find you out in the dis
eases Of the spinal cord, diseases of
the brain, diseases OF the kidney, dis
eases of the heart, diseases of the
nervous system.
You never had a better friend come
to your city than am. Do you think
am your enemy to try and help
you to get on a high plane and live
for Jesus Christ? l am The enemy or
sin And 1t Is amazing the many ways,
some simple. some intricate; some d.
rect, some indirect; in which our sins
hunt us out, find Us, and bring US
to account and make us pay.
Some of you are contemplating sin.
Take advice from a friend and don't
you do it 1t will find you out. 1t
won't pay. But you will have to pay
in a wrecked mind or a wrecked body
or a wrecked character or a wrecked
soul, you will have to pay some way.
They will find you out in your char
acter. Every sin breeds a moral as
well as a physical ulcer. 1 think a
fostering body isn't half as bad as a
rotten soul or character. Now, you
can't lie without having your moral
blood poisoned by the transaction.
You can't cheat a man in business and
not suffer more in character than he
suffers from the loss of the money.
You stole from him, but you will suf-
fer more than that in the world. You
can't wrong a man in his wages and
not suffer more in reputation for hav-
ing done it, than he will suffer in the
amount of money that you keep from
UlIlt lIldl justly DtlOilStu W IOu
are worse off for it than the man and
you can't wrong a man regarding his
wife without a death-dealing canker
striking you down. You can't read
an impure book. you can't listen to
an impurse story that you don't suf-
fer for it.
Strings OF Conscience.
Oh how many people suffer un-
told agony, oh, and the bitter con-
sciousness of sins which no one
seems to know! There is no ply
..icaI suffering that can equal the
torment of an accusing conscience.
And all the accusing consciences.
my friends, that are on this earth!
No prosperity, no love. no mirth. no
joy. no music, no revelry, no fun,
no intoxication can dispel the cloud
or assuage the anguish which comes
as a result of knowing that you
have sinned. Sinned. God has so
constituted us that we know we are
sinners and that means self-con-
demnation, that leads to Christ.
knew of a girl didn't know
her pcrsonally-a friend of mine
who lived in a New England town,
knew her, q beautiful woman and
from one of the best and oldest
families. She could trace her an
cestry back to the cradle of old
Plymouth Rock, my friends. and the
Mayfiower. Her father was a mod
crate drinker. She inherited his ap-
petite. She had periodic drinking
spells when shed get drunk and
leave home and go to Boston on
pretense of visiting friends.
One time she stayed unusually
long, and they 'phoned to the police
and searched for her. They found
her in the haunts of sin, the com
panions of thieves and Of thugs and
of the vile.
You may lay traps for girls and
drag them down to ruin until they
will become outcasts OF this old
earth. There may be those who will
be admitted to the best Of society
but it will not always be so. Their
sins will find them out in the
world to come, and God will make
everything right. Men dispise God,
and they laugh at His word. and
they will damn the preacher and
trample under foot the blood of the
Son of God. They will live in sin
and God lets them live. They will
laugh and mock and rail and scof
and they will deride. All right, go
ahead, but remember my text, BE
sure your sins will find you out"
"All who sin are slaves" Never
was such a cruel master as the
devil and all who sin are slaves.
Look at the slaves of morphine and
cocaine and heroin. There are other
men and women who don't care
rap about these things. Oh, they
have got a passion for gambling,
passionate, ungovernable temper,
for lying to beat people out of
their money! Oh, but within every
one there is a power OF sin that
makes US absolutely helpless with
in its grip!
Children of Gsd.
Then you become a child of God.
Bless the Lord tonight am a child
OF God through faith in Jesus Christ.
The richest or the poorest man or
woman in Washington may become a