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may not show at
once, but, given time enough, they will
appear in physical disorders that battle
the skill of physicians.
One day on the street of an Eastern
city | saw coming toward me one who
appeared to be broken down, feeble
old man. When we came nearer saw
that the man was not old, but young.
and that he evidently was smitten with
some dreadful disease. Looking closer,
| recognized him as a boyhood COM
panlon and In CONSERVATION ex-
claimed: why Frank, what Is the
matter" To which he replied with
one word, that awful word, "Sln." Yes,
his sin had found him out in his body.
No Peace to the Wicked.
There is a passage OF Scripture
which many men are proving true in
their own experience. 1t Is that word
which says: "There is no peace, saith
Ply God, to the wicked" The reason
they have no peace is because their
sin is finding them out In their con-
science. Men, try to escape an accus-
ing conscience by putting miles be-
tween them and their SIM but wherever
they are that monitor Of their soul Is
there with them and keeps saying over
and over again to them: Thou art
the man."
Conscience cannot be subdued. II Is
Gods alarm clock In human soul.
Every time one sins, this divine alarm
rings out It's warning and then in after
years, when 1t seems as If the years
must have buried the sin In oblivion,
memory, that plastic piece Of wax
upon which are indelibly written the
deeds of the past, brings II up again
and conscience once more points the
accusing finger, and as before says,
'Thou art the man."
Penalty Certain.
Unconfessed and unforglven sin
finds one out In eternity. 1t may be
that the consequences Of sin in this
life are sometimes avoided, in part at
least, II not altogether; but there Is a
time coming when one cannot escape
the penalty Of his sin, providing he has
not confessed 1t and accepted him who
is the Lamb of God that took away the
sins of the world.
God tells US that 1t is appointed
unto man once to die and after death.
the Judgment, and he warns us that II
is foolish for anyone to think that he
can escape the judgment Of God. He
tells us Of "the day of wrath and reve-
lation of the righteous judgment OF
God, who will render to every man ac-
cording to his deeds;" so II one does
escape the results of sin here. he can
not escape them In the hereafter. God
will bring him to account, and there Is
for the one who rejects the salvation
that is offered In Christ, judgment
I-of sin to come. "Some mems SINS"
says Paul, "go on beforehand TO judy
ment and some mems sins follow
after"
The One Way Out.
There is way to escape the penalty
and power of sin. God has made that
way. He tells us that he sent "his son
TO be the Savior of the world" and
that on the cross that Son put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself" He
died there for our sins, according to
the Scriptures, and on the third day
by his resurrection from the dead he
was declared 10 be the Son Of God
with power. Wherefore he is able TO
save them to the uttermost that come
unto God by him. seeing he ever liveth
to make intercession for them"
God has made 1t clear how men now
may, by the acceptance Of the Lord
Jesus Christ as their Savior, escape
the judgment that is to come; how
they may now pass from death unto
life; how they may now have eternal
life. Could 1t be any palmer than
Christ puts II when he says: Verify,
verify say unto you, he that heareth
my word, and believeth on him that
sent it. hath everlasting life. and shall
not come into judgment; but Is passed
from death unto lifeT
One has pointed out that those who
accept by faith the Lord Jesus Christ
as their Savior have: ~ A new pos
session, Everlasting life;" (2l new
provision. "shan not come into judy
ment;"s (3l a new position. passed
from death unto life"
-Come now and let rs reason to
gether. saith the Lord; though your
sins BE as scarlet they shall be a.
white as snow: though they be red
like crimson. they shall be IS wool"