Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-30

that He gave His only betgotten
Son. that whosoever believeth I'm
Him should not perish. but have
everlasting life"
l want TO say to You, take
warning; some of you that may be
careless in your lives; take
warning, if you are allowing some
miserable fellow to pour into your
ears compliments that are as
empty rs the heart and head that
gives them
And il Is these influences that
work to damn US; and the devil IS
working every scheme under heBN-
en- in order 10 wreck the human
race, and yet God so loved the
world that He gave his only begot-
ten Son" to keep us from the power
OF the devil
You ask me, What is SIM" Sin
Is any wilful violation of a known
law OF God That is what theo-
logians call sin, the doing OF the
thing. Sin is the wilful violation
of a known law OF God. That is
one definition.
Sin Viper.
Sin is that depraved state OF the
human heart that causes actual sin.
That is original sin. Now, what is
sin? 1t is viper, 1t is a serpent
that fastens its fangs in your soul
and fills it with a deadly poison,
or il coils around your soul and
brushes out every thought OF de- 4
cency and virtue and of God Sin
is a whirlpool where the soul IS
drowned out of its course 10 heaven
and plunges down into hell.
Sin is a loathsome disease. Sin
turns all moral beauty Of charac-
ter and manhood and womanhood
into rotten mass. Sin Is a chaiu
which the sinner FORCES link by
link as he INDUCES his sin OF de-
sires.
Sin is the sexton that digs the
grave in which the human soul Is
to be buried after the devil has
murdered and assassinated It.
Sin is a stoker that feeds the hot
fires of passion and lusts like they
shovel coal into the furnace OF a
great battleship.
Sin is a siren which lures men
into her embrace and then leaps
with them into the surging sea OF
ruin.
Sin: Yet God so loved the
world, that he gave his only be-
gotten son, that Whosoever believ-
eth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life"
Sin blights the fairest bloom OF
youth. Sin breaks the parents
heart. Sin brings grey hairs and
sorrow to them. Sin sends them TO
their graves. Sin transforms chill
dren into wolves, mothers into
tigers, fathers into cruel monsters.
Sin will turn the purest the gent
lest heart Of man or a woman
into granite or steel.
God is the enemy Of sin, and sin
is the enemy Of God.
Which side are you lined up
with? The Lord or the devil?
The first sin will lead to the sec
ond; the second to the third and
the third will lead to the fourth
and so on.
At first sin is like a slender
spider thread that you can break
but at last it becomes a rope.
Every time you perform a wicked
act or utter an uIholy word, every
time you harbor an impure
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disfigure your very soul and
there is nothing but the blood OF
Jesus Christ that can cleanse us
from all sin.
And there is nothing on this old
earth that can change our guilt into
innocence and pardon US for our
LIansgressions; and there is moth
ing in the universe that possesses
the slightest power 20 take away
guilt but faith in the blood o.
Christ. Philanthropy won't do o.. y"
nothing but faith in the blood O-
Jesus Christ.
This is Women's and Child ems
Underwear Week at McCabe's.