A long life of bitter experience is scarcely sufficient to correct our first impression of the value of this world make us see and confess ,to our own hearts ,that it is after all empty and vain ,Why ,what a fair and beautiful thing is human life ,as the deceiver paints it on the unpracticed vision of the youthful mind! it is a perfect paradise a scene of enchantment ,but alas!How the illusion vanished,as we come to the encounter the stern realities of life.How one fondly cherished hope after another fades and perished ,till all are gone nothing more remain and life without God is found to be an evil ,and a weariness,and the earth a desert with no satisfying good ,Whither have fled the pleasures of youth that once were so alluring and for which we were so willing to let Crist and heaven go ?What have become of the stores of weath ,the barns of plenty ,the abundant experience of good ,that were promised us in manhood ?Whence are to come the mellow fruit and the quiet blessing of old age?.We reach at length the brink of the grave ,and looking back over the waste of years ,wonder if that be the life which our youthful fancy set out in colors so bright and fascinating ? And is only by means of deception making the worse appear the better reason holding out at every step the most alluring hoes,and disguising the odious character of sin and hiding from view its certain and fatal consequences ,that the devil success in ruining so manny souls. Sin itself is a monstrous lie;there is no truth in it ;it isthe doctrine of devilsIt is a lie agains the being and every perfection of God ;against all the laws of rectitude and of the nature ,as well as grace ;;it is a lie against the peace and happiness of the soul,and the universal good .The sinner is made the willing dupe and victim of a malicious lie from first to last ,How mournful the spectacle ! all his hopes will perish and his works be destroyed ,for they are false,Death to him will bea melancholy day for it will reveal the nature and extent of his deception .And his eternity will be embittered by taunts and torments of the infinitely odious and lying deceiver. If the Devil is such a deceiver why will men trust him?how can they take his world ;why should not be hated and detested as mush character deserve to be?How can men serve such master?All his power is usurped his character comprehends all meanness and vileness and infamy his service is a hard one his reward disappointment ,misery eternal death !He cherishes toward us not one kind feeling ;he desires to make us miserable as himself ;and no means are spared to accomplish it,to serve him is slave our souls and gratify his fiendish pleasure,and make our destruction sure. National Preachers November 1849 by Rev.Samuel M .Worcester.
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