p. 9 | Sin Destroys

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 27.

Sin Destroys

A LARGE bald eagle was shot in the Alleghanies. When the hunter went to examine the prize, he was surprised to find one of the eagle’s claws held firmly in a strong steel trap having a chain five feet long, both of these showing the marks of the blows given them by the eagle in his efforts to free himself. Altho the trap and chain had not been heavy enough to prevent the eagle from flying, they wearied the bird, and brought it within reach of the rifle. This is but an illustration of how men and women of talent and education, capable of attaining and holding positions among the highest and best, are entrapped and chained by sin, and rendered incapable of rising to the heights they might have gained.—Homiletic Review.