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A SIMPKIN ON BONDS OF SIN S Limitations of Life That Men Develop in Their Own Persons THE FRUITAGE OF HABITS Purple State of oJ Earthly Success Success Suc Suc- cess cess Shroud of De Dead Soul S At Phillips Phillips- last las night tho time pastor preached to to toa a largo large audience or OP tue limitations orI oF life r that men develop in their own o a mij sIns Ing T Taking for Cor his Imis text time the word f froin tho Proverbs And Antl a 3 aman aman man shall b be with tho the cords from Crom own sins Mr Ir Simpkin went wenton on to say sar Because I men see only half of ot life ute because IIO the they mind lint n a l seeming variance between what I lg Is In Jim life liCe and what hat tho word of or God has ms spoken en In Its lC and amid finally b because of or tho the engro engrossment in the time doings of ot tho the days men do not give e hC to tho fruitage of deed nn and habit in life The he spectacle of or men who sow son the time 8 seed C of ot evil and who come comO to alt sit In places of or power who mOck mOel God and yet et find fiad time tile acclaim of ot tho time multitude who lisp blasphemies and yet mow know tu the tb babbled adulation of or tho hosts is rather rathor rath rath- er or disconcerting till one ono remembers that tho the gleaning places of or life aro in inthe time the soulT t antl-t that and t 1 the purple state staid of ot earthly success n bo be time the outer garb that l Is truly the time shroud or of f a 3 dead soul Solomon who p penned nned those these words knew of what lie ho spoke In few lives hives Is there thum-e greater contrast than thrum that be between bo- bo tween the time end nm and tho the beginning th the morning and the evening evening- of this life endowed tho the chosen Instrument Instrument ment of or the time living lI God given an aim unusual unusual unusual un un- usual measure of opportunity choosing choosing choos choos- ing the time benson of ot wisdom above that of power and goodness above riches lie COln cornea comes 8 to sit with spotted garment In tho the place I of ot black ruin and sad shame abundantly able aLle to express this truism that a a a- tim mum shall bo be with the time cords of ot his own sins Evil EON are SU This Thiis Is tho time boon of life Ufo and Its tragedy that no power r in th the universe may bind cor cords s' s for rol our lives save ourselves our out selves os God Is TI m-i no Jove standing afar to cast his spell of power to the time spin spin- spinning ning of that which will wm fetter and mar nor life Ife The Time world with all Its power may not do o It If upon our ur fe feet t and antl hands there bo be tho fettering manacles upon our ur wills called called to to r. r reach riach ach to the widest there thele be time tho ho bonds that hold hoM us fro from In out the loom of or our heart healt has corns come the coil coll that holds us Tar For this 11 is your majesty The world ma prison you in imm narrow cir clr- may crucify you ou in its places of bitter hate ito may outwardly boat beat you ou but still you ou may sit amid all Its ruin ro nant or om may Inny hang liming upon Its ts cross crowne crowned with Ith kingship abid- abid big Ing ng it If out of ot your our o own n life you have not mad the tho thins thin that only lends and e tho 1 l Thimi Is la lifes life's sham That oho may ri-my walk free and amid full full- reach toe the hel stepped with Gu God life Ufe In loftiness an and amid servo in iii beautiful sacrifice and that by jy tho time luro of ot the tho low the time domination of the heart that might have been an anan choose that which can cami but an angel el We wo mar which can cami give Ivo nothing but the time brute blute satisfactions to life Ufe And nd It Is a marvel mard that with Heaven for tho time r reaching g gamt and amt for tor forthe the time being men men wilt will still sun be content to use lifes life's power flower for tor tho time making of the he cords that mt will wIlI at last make earths earth's wf widest est Jall landscape a prison h house ui i fl benl 1 t of Heaven I the time roof root of ot a prisons prison's narrowness Gods God's hatred of sin Is ht not for tor His Ills sake but but s. ours for all tho time loss It brings in our crippled ruin He lIe shares s fully And hag no slavery s so sp ab abject abject ab- ab as that wo we sell ourselves In n lifes life's indulgences Jesus of or Nazareth Nazareth Nazareth Naza Naza- reth stated the fact that he that sin sin- is the bond servant ser of ot sin We Ve who have known mo life 1110 know not only onh the tho truth of ot of His alS assertion but the time process of ot Its law lq A sin Is that which harms us and God J e whether it be beIn beIn In that which destroys our ability to todo todo todo do or to be And so n uch Of tiE r that which is es essentially es- es destructive that puts us out of or harmony harmon with God by us or tor corr correspondence with wilh Him In our nature or or that blast s our tuttles l for tor sensing the spiritual relationship and touch of or God God Godla la rooted routed In tho time habits of life liCo which wo deliberately So No 0 spider er ever spun Its web more de deliberately de- de e- e than we re d dp these cor cords s that bind w We evoke In habit an and amid choice of or being the evil things that blast our very liV S Culture ur of nl The hc speaker th then mm went vent on to show that be natural tendency of tho tho- he heart t time the c culture o of that which frees and ami ennobles ennobles ennobles' the ti-me soul is just as easy and natural as aa the time things timings that debase The faculty of ot creation that God lends to us for tor lifes life's building works as unerringly to the beautiful as the base balio In life's lifes deliberate pur pur- poses Tho rhe culture of rl righteousness Jl lies S within our hand a hand a culture that makes maltes easy upward flight in whose ascending circles we Wi find milled the perfect ideal of oC the Christ Turning to the time conditions of ot life Ufe as we wc find them to tho the facts of ot experience experience whose apprehension makes maltes bettor bettor bettor bet bet- tor the bread of or the thu days clays Mr Simpkin Simpkin Simp- Simp kin pointed out that God the tho Father waits to to- give us freedom from our bonds in the time pardon of ot lifes life's sin simm in iii the tIme s sting seating right of oC life In the time freeing treeing of ot the th soul tr from m burden of Crossness and Imparting that one lib illi Crt Worth Worth- Worthwhile while while- In Klad privilege lege we wc may the Holy Grail Grall antI and follow the quest till un It bring ys to tho the valley vaHey wonderful walled in by hy the mountains d delectable where frailty shall shah t bo bf o forgotten 1 and right right- shall fill nn life forever In the time place iaco of at love p t mind and life Ufo divine |