Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-10
A GOD, PLENTE0US'
IN MERCY, GUARDS.
AGAINST OUR SINS.
REV. c. w. CHESSMAN breaches
SERMON ON "DO OUR SINS FIND
US oUTw TAKING EXCEPTIONS
TO OLD DOCTRINE.

The Baptist brotherhood met fif- |
teen minutes before the regular serv- |
Ices Sunday night and enjoyed a |
Sing" The men demonstrated they |
knew how to sing the gospel songs |
I'D Coy was leader. Rev. c. w Chess |
man spoke on do Our Sons Always
Find Us OUT" Part of the sermon
follows:
There is a prevalent teaching that
our sins always find us out The con
sequences of our sins pursue us as a
Nemesis with the penalty of newt
able retribution. The idea is exploit
ed in the field of fiction The central
theme in George Elliott's "Romola" is
that sin finds out. Scripture is used
In substantiaton The soul that sin
meth, it shall die" The wages of sin
is death" Whatsoever a man soeth
that shall he also reap" Sin, when
is is finished. bringeth forth death.
This is not the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. The scripture
used in substantiation is employed
out of relation to other scriptural
truth. The grim, naked, terrifying
doctrine is unchristian II Is not true
that a mans sin always finds him
out It is not true because ii leaves
God out. God is a God plenteous in
mercy. He Is a forgiving God. The
Psalmist, who knew the sting of sin,
found Gods mercy and came to cry.
He hath not dealt with us after our
sins"
Christ came to be Gods power un-
to salvation, a power in a mans soul
to arrest moral retrogression and to
lift him to God Between the sow
ing and the reaping lies the whole
providence of God, God does not
want sin to find man out. He does not
want the prodigal to stay in the far
country in process of moral degen.
Grafton. That is why he sent his only
beloved Son. to save people from their
sins
"All along a mans sinful course di-
vine love erects barriers. If man
goes TO hell he does if over these God
erected obstacles. God uses influences
to awaken men to sins consequences
and their wonderful privileges to be
come sons of Cod Even Judas Iscar-
lot went to his he'll against the ten
der entreaties of the Christ who low
ed him.
At the Congregational Church.
At the Congregational church the
pastor. Rev. Carl Stackman, spoke
sunday morning upon the theme.
What has the Christian Church
tone?" He said in part
1.-THE early church came into
krld which witnessed the most won
bful political achievement of all
Ne, for more nearly than any other
bire has ever done the Roman EN-
4 of the first century embraced all
ttpeople of the known world. 1t
otue there were a few known as
aims to the east with whom Alex
TIA the Great had fought, and there
COZ rlmors Of another land farther
cidthere silg grew on the leaves OF
He's. but the whole Mediterran-
andbrld was embraced in the Ro-
newnpire. 1t nodded all these diff
the speoples in one nation and
or bbr them their prOudest boast
stir i'y were Roman citizens.
shade'f this grew another fact, that
cents lrly than at any other time
VIII pgy there was developed a
OF cui'fgion a paganism strong in
which among the Greeks,
fans and in Asia had exist
II Is h than four thousand years,
water athe beauty and symbolism
gent loti,strong in it's mystic rites
We're anies, strong in its adapt
generality took all the gods of all
both seXesnd identified them and
tics and 6Dlace in their worship.
would not a world embracing re-
In view ae Christian church with
heart and aves and small motley
troubles ana arpest contrast to the
Ger, Il Is "' reece and Roman life.
from recent ! a religion that out
talltv from naeanism thai ont.
spl'lal inci'' application of morals
heailv ~ ''' relation of morals and
since ah,i''N's st wonderful of all,
1in' 'h'i'" aable to out-die the
see" az" "' it made the great
coI"' .)n the world by the
o'''io' 4 adherents death
"suo ~ @d of all its terrOrs.
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h.. s and were cruel
pi"9 nd ollov.ng, Such exam
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