Little Sins by Rev. Newman Hall

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 9, 1860

Little Sins.

By Rev. Newman Hall

LET us be on our guard against little sins; against what men call little sins, for there is nothing really little in the way of sin. Watch against anything that wounds the conscience, however slightly. Conscience is a sacred thing. Guard well your spiritual life. Watch against the little sin that insensibly may wound and thus in the end destroy. You can easily kill a man by stabbing him with one blow to the heart. But may you not easily kill a man also by opening a little vein in his wrist? The blood may only flow drop by drop, but if you don’t stop that wound you will bleed to death, and just as surely as if one plunged a dagger into your heart and sent you into eternity in a moment. Beware, then, of the little things that keep the wound of the soul open; guard against little sins, which, if not guarded against, will assuredly destroy the soul as one great sin.

John Newton says, Satan seldom comes to Christians with great temptations, or with temptations to commit a great sin. You will be started with the idea of committing a great sin, and so the Devil brings a little temptation and leaves you to indulge yourself. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.—Rev. Newman Hall.