Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York, preached a short sermon, basing his remarks on the words which Jesus spoke first to the Pharisees and then to his disciples, telling them that it was because. He had opened their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher sense of real righteousness, comes a feeling of sin and shame. But this rising sense of sin is a hopeful sign, for if we receive it into our hearts with pure feelings...
...little benefit without a lifelong experience. Amiable feelings are held in contempt by these people, and unless there is some real work to be done, some common ground for both, friendly sentiments are useless. It is not worth while to attempt simple amusement, for the amount of sin or drunkenness is not decreased by it. Relations however, with the more intelligent and prosperous often prove of real benefit. There are many work men ambitious to study, and a few men could do much for these by giving the results, for a few evenings a week, of their training. There...
...Putting aside all questions of history the preacher searched for a moral significance in the casting out of devils. The speaker said that few people are willing today to give up their insanity at the expense of their service, or in other words, were willing to give up their sins if they were compelled at the same time to give up the pleasures of sin...
...eternal law that sin and suffering go together; if sin is kept, pain is kept, if the sin is gone, pain also must have gone. The gospel is not like an easy badge to be put on or off at will. Christ will not come unless he can cast out the devils and send away the swine...
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "The Wages of Sin...