“SIN is the transgression of the law.” This is God’s definition of the awful, hateful, abominable thing known as sin. Sin is an insult to God. It does despite to His grace, and crucified His Son. It has caused all the heartache and suffering to which the human family has fallen heir. Its slime and ooze is seen everywhere. It is the sexton that digs your grave and mine.
Some one has truly said that “every burning tear, every corroding care, every piercing remorse; the sighs and moans of lazar houses reeking with putrefaction and death; the shrieks and wails and clanking chains in hospitals swarming with maniacs; and the curses and blasphemies of dungeons where guilt rots and raves — these, all these, are but feeble reverberations of those dismal truths, ‘Sin reigns unto death,’ ‘Death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.’”
Yet awful as it is, it is simply the transgression of God’s law — the result of disobedience, of a failure to hearken to the commandments of God. From Sinai’s burning top the Saviour spoke to quailing humanity the precepts of His law — handed down the code, the transgression of which is sin.
In keeping His commandments there is great reward, and through Jesus’ blood there is everlasting deliverance from the awful consequences of sin.
G. B. T.
A RESIDENCE ON FOURTEENTH STREET, NEAR THE BEACH, GALVESTON, FOLLOWING THE RECENT STORM THAT DID SO MUCH DAMAGE IN THAT CITY
