Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...driven out one devil and had swept and garnished the house but, though free from crime, no life was in the dwelling and it was seized again by more evil than before. Activity is the true safeguard. Let the man who thinks he does not sin take heed lest he fall. The empty house must be filled and if not with life then with destruction. Duty done at its first appearance gives new strength and knowledge for the next opportunity. It may not be done wisely or well but if with all one's strength and skill it will surely...
...dignity of God's creation. They impute to the Creator's laws the preventable evil and ugliness for which the human race is responsible and with regard to which it so shamefully neglects its duty. Again, the pessimist neglects the truth that this is a remedial world. Sin has in its company that which will eventually annihilate it. The sinner's conscience sets itself against him uncompromisingly; God's voice calls him from evil. Sin struggles hard but it is surely disappearing, and man's hope may well be strong...
...there is only one opening through which God has been clearly seen - the life of Christ. He conquered evil and the world is being re-created. To those who do not see that God's thoughts are as far above man's as the heaven is above the earth, sin may seem dying too slowly. To the pessimist it may even seem gaining strength, but to the Christian, God's purposes are revealed in Christ. He sees the beauty and stainlessness of that character gaining the victory in the world and the new creation advancing when the world, concerning which...
...Unrepentant" is a psychical study of much force. There is a startling vividness and originality of touch in the descriptions of the death-bed conversation of a woman "who deserted husband and child to follow a lover," and who acknowledged that it was almost divine to sin as she did, "not with a mean desire to cheat the devil or God, but freely anxious to have what she sinned for and not to repine." Certainly the theme is one which we seldom see elaborated...
...mistake to think of right and wrong as two definite places with a sharp dividing line between them. Right and wrong should be regarded as directions. If we take this latter view we shall be saved much temptation and sin. A man is led into sin by thinking wrong. He endeavors to go as far as possible towards this imaginary line without crossing from the right side to the wrong one, and before he is aware he has sinned. If on the other hand he had steadfastly set his face towards the Lord, he would have avoided the sin...