“WAGES OF SIN” 
Strong Sermon by Rev. E. H. Brewster on 
the Subject of Sin at the Baptist Church 
Last Sunday Evening 
“The Wages of Sin” was the sub- 
ject of a very interesting sermon by 
ev. E. H. Brewster at the Baptist 
church, Manchester, last 
evening. He said in part: 
“Our age knows nothing about sin. 
Despite the daily record of crime and 
brutality and the daily contact with 
grossness of heart and life, we are 
evidently unaware of the real nature 
of sin and its awful penalties. As in 
regard to other things of vital 
moment, so when we ask ourselves 
what is sin we must consult the living 
oracles of God, that is, His Word. 
“And here in these pages that 
flash with divine authority, that re- 
main unshaken in the midst of shat- 
tered systems of philosophy and 
thought, we have revealed to us the 
nature of sin. 
* First of all sin is transgression of 
the law of God (I John, 3:4). The 
law of God given to Moses and com- 
monly called the Ten Commandments, 
is the expression of the Holy nature 
of God, and the slightest transgres- 
sion of these eternal requirements is 
sin. The man who covets, who re- 
fuses God the very first place in his 
heart, that cares for anything more 
than for God, is a sinner and by the 
very nature of the case an outlaw. 
«Sin is not the breaking of a 
human law; that is crime. Sin is 
the breaking of divine law, and that is 
a blow at the sovereignty of God. Sin 
need not be outward transgression : 
‘as a man thinketh in his heart, so is 
he.’ The man who thinks evil, whose 
heart is in rebellion against God, 
walks the earth a moral] anarchist, and 
the stars fight against him in their 
courses. 
««« Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.’ 
It is popular among some to be skep- 
tical about God. It is considered very 
good taste to limit one’s faith to a 
very few of the revealed truths of the 
Gospel. Unbelief is looked up to and 
courted. In reality unbelief is the 
incubator that hatches out all other 
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sins. An unbelieving heart is the 
devil’s nest. Destroy faith from the 
earth and you have a hell. 
** And now, from whence does sin 
arise? What is the origin of this foul 
malady that has blasted our hopes and 
so vitiated our faculties and dimmed 
our vision, that even the regenerate 
cry out with Paul : ‘ Who shall deliver 
me from the body of this Death? Sin 
is of the devil, so say the Scriptures. 
(I John, 3:8). The Christian has no 
doubt about it, but you who do not 
believe, can you give any explanation 
more in keeping with the facts than 
this? Why this unholy tumult in 
your soul?) What lies back of that 
poisoned tongue, whose — speech 
stabbed you to the heart and sent you 
staggering away wounded to the 
death ? 
“Why the passion for drink that 
damns 600,000 drunkards every year, 
empties heavén, fills hell, and curses 
earth? The greatest delight that 
comes to the black heart of the evil 
one, must be this: that those who are 
his victims disbelieve his very exist- 
ence: 
‘““Now what of this? ‘The wages 
of sin isdeath.’ Naturaldeath. The 
crepe on the door, the curtained win- 
dows, the rumbling of the wheels of 
death’s chariot, tells the story of sin 
better than any words of mine. Every 
tomb-stone is paled with the horror of 
sin’s fatality. Spiritual death. Why 
do not men know God? Here is the 
open book of nature before you, nay! 
the open book of your own mind, and 
you cannot read a single syllable. Tell 
me why ! 
«« Sin has made us a race of orphans 
and has turned God’s fair world into 
a House of Correction. Eternal 
death. God is light, separation from 
him is darkness, ‘outer darkness,’ 
the Bible calls it. God is joy. Sepa- 
ration from him is sorrow. ‘ There 
shall be weeping’ the Bible says. 
God is love. Separation from him 
will be a ‘gnashing of teeth.’ Oh! 
will not many spend eternity accusing 
others of their downfall, filling hell 
with the clamor of mutual accusa- 
tions? ‘But the gift of God is eter- 
nal life.’ Mark you, ‘the gift of God.’ 
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Salvation is of grace. It is not of 
labor, for then would God be robbed 
of his glory. You cannot work out 
your salvation until you getit in. Sin 
earns death, grace bestows life. You 
cannot measure the gift. If you 
could leap from star to star into the 
outreaches of space until suns rose 
and set in one blaze of glory and east 
and west fell into each other’s arms, 
you would then have touched but the 
fringe of this wonderful gift. It is 
through faith in Christ. Believe in 
him and thou shalt be saved. It is 
through his blessed life and death, 
through the way of his broken heart 
that the gift of God comes to penitent 
men and women, who turn from dark- 
ness unto light, and from Satan unto 
God.”’ 
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