The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-02

were fulfilled that he Snoulu pe
Carried to Babylon" yet should
mot see Babylon" And thus his
sin had found him out.
The FALL OF JERUSALEM
The End of Disobedience was
pictured in the destruction OF
Jerusalem. With ancient Oriental
cruelty the Sictors turned greed
lily upon their prey. Jerusalem
mad fallen but it must be crushed
SO that future rebellions will be
impossible. The mobiles are there
fore slain. A fierce conflagra-
ton is started consuming the pal
ace, the best houses of the city,
and even the temple, that sane
tuary which had stood for 470
years since Solomon's day. All
who could be serviceable in servl-
tude were then herded together
and driven away to Babylon. Only
| the poor and the helpless were
left in the land The city was ut
terly devastated, the country was
harried to bedrock, and the tenn
poral power of Judah was forever
obliterated.
SIN DESTROYS
(1) Sin Recoils. "Nebuchadnez-
Ear came" Foolishly Judah re-
belled against Babylon. The
prophet warned against it. But
Zedekiah thought he could safely
sin. Too late he discovered his
mistake.
(2) Sin Attacks. pitched
against-besieged." The army Of
satan is stronger than that of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. His siege does
not stop with IS months. His as
saults are bitter and determined.
We must have help to resist him.
(3) Sin Starves. "The famine
prevailed" Judah was eating
thread from its own harvest. And
there was no nourishment in it.
The apples of Sodom are not
luscious. The prodigal has only
husks for daily food.
(4) Sin Routs. "The city was
broken up-men of war fled" The
devotees of sin become its victims.
Their strongest wall of defense
icrumbles. Their mightiest men of
war turn towards. Sinners stink
away under the scourge of their
sin.
|. :. 60 Sin Pursues. "Army of the
Chaldees pursued" Down the
mountain to the deep Jordan val
LEY, and Zedekiah thought himself
safe among the farm houses
taround Jericho. But the Baby
lonians were on his track. In an
unpuarded moment with his army
dispersed for refreshment in the
region, he was captured without
blow. He that uursues sin will
be pursued by SIM.
(6) SinrBereaves. "Slew the sons
of Zedekiah before his eyes" Pitt.
full was the bad kings last look!
How cruel is sin! 1t robs man of
/ his truest and best. 1t stabs his
loved ones. 1t leaves him solitary
and alone.
I7) Sin Blinds. "Put out the
eyes of Zedekiah." Horrible was
the Oriental treatment of captive
kings. But it was not so horrible
as the treatment which sin awards
its victims. The spiritually-bllnd
are worse off infinitely than Hede-
kiah The sin-blind are stone
blind. rs, -,
CSl Sin Shackles. "Bound him
with letters" There is no chain
SO calling, so REFRESHING, so re-
nellsnt as that of sin. And the
links are forged by the victim nm
self. There is hut One VINO can an
snap the sin-shackled and tree inc
soul. 49, up,,rn+ bo
with fire" Every good house,
every palace and rublic building
and even the Temlpe itself went
down in ashes and ruin before the
Rabvlonian conflagration. 1t is a
p;etEre of the havoc of sin.
T01 Sin Enslaves: Garry
awua 1H'' For every captive sinner
there is an eternal prison; bue
n r is available. The slave OF
sin can be set free if he calls on -:
the Great Liberator before IL I. y
too late. Now is the accepted
time. Look to Christ for liberty
Mussolini's argument in orle1
t"You didn't give US a fair snare
of what you stole from Germany