“FOOLS make a mock of sin.” These words have arrested me, for who but a fool would doubt the fact of sin from what he knows of his own heart, and from what he sees in the world around him? The Cross of Christ is the most awful indictment of sin. All His life the Lord Jesus Christ condemned it. It was sin that broke the heart of the Son of God; that gave to Gethsemane and to Calvary their pathos and their tragedy.
“All have sinned,” and “the soul that sinneth it shall die.” These are facts that cannot be controverted. But never were the powers of darkness so busy as they are today, seeking to minimize sin, and do away with its consequences. The sovereignty and the justice of a holy God are brought down to the level of man’s ideas as to what they should be. The fall of man is absolutely denied by many, and so the need of the atoning work of Christ is set aside. Men are told that by stepping-stones of their own making they can rise to higher things. Evolution must take the place, of redemption, and self-sacrifice be put in the place of the Redeemer’s finished work. Darwin when he was dying, we are told, deplored to a friend, in an agony of soul, that his own unformed ideas people had made a religion of. We know that much of the dreadful theology of today is owing to that. Men would rather believe the crude and half-formed ideas of sinful men, than trust in the verities of God. “God spake and it was done.” This is a death blow to evolution.
But the light of truth is shining still upon the great deep of human sin. From my rooms where I am staying — and getting better, thank God — I watch every night the great light on Berry Head, sending its mighty beams over the deep. And I know that the Word of God which we are sending by thousands every week to soldiers and sailors will be a light to many a soul, and will shine upon the darkness of their lives and show them the golden pathway to Christ and God and heaven. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” “He that believeth is freed from sin.”