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Chapter 6 |
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One day when the tide was out, a man went out to gather sea plants on the rocks, and in stepping from ledge to ledge his foot slipped down and became jammed in a crevice. He attempted to pull it out, but could not. He cried aloud, he shrieked, he prayed, but all in vain — no one heard him. So the tide came rolling in, and rose up higher and higher until it rolled over him and drowned his last gurgling cry in its remorseless waters. So it is that sin clutches men. Even one sin, one secret sin, one evil habit, may hold the soul that indulges it until the floods of judgment come and roll over it, engulfing it in eternal damnation. One of the great lessons to be learned from this incident is that we cannot possible deceive God. We talk about secret sins, as if any sin were secret when all heaven sees it, when God beholds it and the angels witness it. Sometime exposure will come,
There is a story of a king who had been vanquished at war. His conqueror offered terms, which were satisfactory in every respect, save one — they required him to do public homage to his victor. That, however, was at length so far modified that he was to be allowed to render his homage in the tent of his rival. But when the hour came, and the captive was in the very act of doing homage, his conqueror, by some machinery, which he had prepared, suddenly stripped off the canvas covering, and the men of both armies saw the king on his knees before his conqueror. If we allow sinful ambition or evil appetites to overmaster us, and think we can save ourselves from humiliation by doing homage to it under the secrecy of a curtained tent, we may be sure that when we are in the very act of confessing our allegiance to it, the Lord will throw down the covering and unveil our degradation before the eyes of angels and men.
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