The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-22


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,
I recognized him as a boyhood COM
panion and in CONSERVATION ex-
claimed: "Why Frank, what is the
matter2" To which he replied with
one word, that awful word, "Sin." 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
my 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 sin, 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. 1t is
Gods alarm clock in a human soul.
Every time one sins, this divine alarm
rings out its warning and then in after
years, when it 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 it up again
and conscience once more points the
accusing finger, and as before says,
Thou art the man."
Penalty Certain.
Unconfessed and unforgiven sin
finds one out in eternity. 1t may be
that the consequences of sin in this
Fse are sometimes avoided, in part at
least, il not altogether; but there is a
time coming when one cannot escape
the penalty of his sin, providing he has
not confessed it and accepted him who
IS the Lamb of God that took away the
sins of the world.
God tells us that it is appointed
unto man once to die and after death,
the judgment, and he warns us that it
is foolish for anyone to think that he
can escape the judgment of God. He
tells us of 1.-THE day of wrath and reye-
lation of the righteous judgment Of
God, who viii render to every man &C
cording to his deeds;' so if 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, a judgment
of sin to come. "Some mems SINS"
says Paul, Ego on beforehand to judg
ment and some mems sins follow
after"
The One Way Out.
There is a way to escape the penalty
and power of sin. God has made that
way. He tells US that he sent This 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 to 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 it 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 it be any palmer than
Christ puts it when he says: "Verily,
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 life?"
One has pointed out that those who
accept by faith the Lord Jesus Christ
as their Savior have: CD A new pos
session, everlasting life;;" (2) a new
provision, shall not come into judg-
rnent;" go a new position, passed
from death unto life."
"Come now and let us reason to-
gether, saith the Lord; though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool"
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