Notes of a sermon preached by the Rev. C. E. Darwent in Union Church on Sunday evening, June Text: Romans V. 20. "Where sin abounded, grace did abound more Here we har an antithesis) but happily not " balanced one, sin and grace. There would be no hope of the world growing any better if there were not more grace than sin; the remedy must be mightier than the disease. But that we may, appreciate the remdy we have to recognize that the diteaso is most serious. And I think we shall all agree that the bent of the present! day is to take much less serious! view of the disease of ein, than used! to be common, than is taken in the! confessions of the churches represented in this congregation, and than is taken by the Bible. No one! can deny that. All the tendency today is to take an easy-going view of the guilt of sin. The present age is inclined to think that the Bible takes far too serious a view of it, that our forefathers made themselves unhappy over what they thought serious disease, but which was after all only a slight ailment, Plenty of people to-day are much more troubled about their digestions than about their si I remember reading the views of ery eminent) modern man on " original sin," that strange evil bias that hae been the root of the miseries of man. He says: "As for original sin, or birth sin, by which is partly meant the sin of his parents, that site lightly on him (that is, the modern man) it would be comic if any berry to believe it."
"who shall deliver me from the body death?" To him his sin was as if he had @ corpse chained to him. Sin comic! What " dreadful thing to have written in view of the history of man's sin and wickedness. It pute & man out of court as a serious thinker. You might ae well say that smallpox is comic; or that] scarlet fever or the plague is comic. We know they are not. And sin is! not; it is a frightful poison of some kind that hae got into human nature and " worked all our woes."
Now over against all this light and easy talk about sin, I will give you the opinion of the Into Professor Huxley. He wae good, sober, scientific man; a sincere earnest man. It is an astonishing: testimony to the truth of St. Paul's! idea that ein abounds." I would) ask you young men to think over; this opinion, for it is that of a man who cannot, at any rate, be described as 8 "bigoted supporter of orthodoxy." He says, "The secret of the superiority of the best theological teachere to the majority of their opponents is is that they substantially'
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