Show I o J THE PALACE OF SIN A Novel Illustration From One of i Sam Jones Sermons I II I Once when I was stepping free and I lost to all sense of accountability the devil I took me by the hand and led me up into a large capacious palace I looked around at the magnificence and splendor of that palace the beautiful flowered carpets the clear rounded windows the carpet cear beautiful pictures on the wall the chair j of ease the table of pleasure and the sofa of contentment j and as I looked I around and around at all this magnificent I I display of comforts the devil said to me I YOU will follow me all this is your J Hooked around again I viewed all the II situation and then said Well if alI this is mine what do I care for God and e heaven and everlasting life 1 And took possession I walk out of there one day and when I came back somebody had taken myj chair of ease Somehow or another I never felt so easy in there afterwards as I did before I came back another day I and somebody had taken out my sofa of cententment and I never was wellcon tented in there after thatI couldnt tell you why I came back another day and my table of pleasure was gone and somehow j some-how or another I never did have much pleasure in there afterward Came back another day and one of the beautiful pictures had been wafted away Another j day and another and by and by I came 1 back one day and one of the windows had been taken I could see it was perceptibly percepti-bly darker in there Another day and another window eone darker still An other day and one of the doorways was missing I didnt have as many ways of ingress and egress Another day and I other things were gone and I staid in I that palace till the last window had been removed and the last piece of furniture gone the carpets removed and the last door taken out but one and I walked out of that palace one day to see my father die I have never been back in there since A man staid in there a little longer than I did He staid there till every window was removed and all the doors removed and then the walls of that large capacious palace commenced corning corn-ing together day by day hour by hour and one night about 2 oclock in the last agonies of death he admitted with his dying breath as the walls of that palace crushed together on him that the wages of sin was death and he entered eternity unprepared forever and ever |