The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20
"Ths wages of Sin is Death

These words were spoken hundreds
of years ago, and you have heard your
pastor preach from this text many
times, but there is a never dying truth
which will forever ring a. sounding
warning to mankind. The Prince of
Peace suffered the ignominious death to
save mankind, and died that man should
live again, because Of sin. Sin has caus-
ed the death Of so many men and wo-
men that it has begun to be unnotieed
by the world. In this day of push and
hurry when people are struggling for
supremacy, when Christianity is of sec
ond thought, we see the effects of sin
more than ever before in the history of
the world.
The World War seems to have revo-
lutionized the world, causing many to
forget not only selfrespect for them
selves, but for others. Money-madness
has caused another phase of this worlds
sins. Dress and fast living, as we'll as
lack of, other needed reforms is lead
ing its victims down to hell.
We see from the press nearly every
day, as well af from personal obser-
vations, evidences of sin. Some young
man is an embezzler of large amount
of money, the cause-women and wine
Only few months ago a young man
in this state, entered bank, held up
teh cashier and robbed the bank of
small sum of money, was captured,
jailed, pleaded guilty and is now serv-
ing a sentence in the penitentiary.
When asked the cause of his downfall
women. 1.-The wages of sin,"-death.
nj fr;f I,
here-death hereafter. Not long ago
one bright Sunday afternoon, the wri-
ter was asked by a prominent pastor
to accompany him to see an>old friend
and schoolmate of ours. Arriving at
the State farm we soon found the SER
geant and we informed him Of our bus
mess. He called the convict who was
running a pump on the farm not far a.
way. He was a trusty. I shall never
forget the picture, and can but meager-
ly describe it. An old man, youth gone,
but the air of refinement apparent, with
that dignity which has characterized
him for these many years, for he is
nearly 60 years old, greeted us and sat
down and began to converse. 1t had
been at Mississippi College we met him
in 1887. Time had wrought many chan
ges-a young man graduated from this
school with honors, sent to the State
Penitentiary for life, now a trusty.
Shut out from the world, wife an in-
valid sons graduates of colleges. This
is a picture of sin, poorly described. The
wages of sin has not changed for CEN
turies it is just the same as when our
Savior hung on the cross and died for
all that we might live. The wages are
high. The employees many. Others
are being born daily already victims of
sin. ''The Soul that Sinneth shall sure
ly die'-as we look over this broad
world we see that this is true every
day.
In many instances reported over the
country. we see young men being
brought into the drag net of sin by
some way or other. He falls a victim
to sin, and the pitfalls are many, and
the ultimate result is death. Jake Ha-
mon died as he lived. The wages of
sin were high he paid the penalty. Cla-
ra Hamon paid the penalty. Her ulti-
mate end is death. And there are thous-
ands of thees same occurrences over
the country daily. Sin was the cause
of the world war. 1t has caused heart
aches, death and destroyed more homes
than any other agency in the world
"The woges of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life through Je-
sus Christ our Lord"
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