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THE UNFORGIVEABLE SIN.

Notes of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie at Union Church on Sunday evening "Whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor in that which is to come."-Matt.

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pisinest evidence, because of malice and prejudice in their hearts. The sin was not that they spoke "a word against the Son of Man Many did that, ignorantly or beedlessly. His friends, for instance at that very was beside time, saying He

The Lord knew Himself.

that He was bound well to be misunderstood by many, "in- deed by most, and that wrong constructions were sure to be put upon His words and conduct. If оде may ay so with entire reverence, it was nothing in the way of lese mojste that He had in mind in this warning aainst

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I am desired, by correspondence, to preach upon the subject of "the unforgiveable sin." on the

an unforgiveable sin. Most have given by publishing sub- ground that it is a matter of

The sin, people talk a great deal. and inscription lists and in other ways concern to many.

the course of it say many things lending the support of your of course, is that against which

warned the which are thoughtless and foolish, valuable columns. Saviour Pharisees in the solema manner and liable to be harmful, recorded both by Mark and Mat-Lord warned against that habit thew. To gather His meaning when He added here that for must study not only His idle words an account must be But idle words. words but the circumstances | given.

however foolish and harm which called them forth. with some care. It was early in His fal, ministry. when crowds were pressing around Him and He was so busy with works and teachings of mercy that "they could not so His friends much as ear bread." tried to hold on Him, saying "He

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is beside Himself." That was an excuseable error, but there were others for whose view no excuse could be offered. Pharisees, and doctors of the law who had come down from Jerusalem, as Mark relates, to see what was going on. Said they. This man doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub It was the prince of devils their duty as the authorised re- ligious leaders of the people to investigate the extraordinary movement which was afoot in

Galilee, where vast numbers were

BTC one thing. and deliberate blasphemy against the truth is another. The one can be

1orgiven; we ourselves find it possible to forgive such, and trust the like charity will be extended a ourselves by our fellowmen, when

curably bad heart is far different. And Bunyan came to have a heart which was tender and clean and sensitive to Christ's call

So far from stifling his con- science. we, reading his story, can see it was extremely keen and that he closely followed it Yet be feared he had driven. the Holy Spirit from him. that gentle, awful, holy guest"

in our heedlessness we miscon- whom we all too often try to strue and misrepresent them. quench when He speaks within Besides that there is such a thing our hearts and often heedlessty as doing wrong under a convict-grieve by withstanding His ion that we are doing right.

Such as gracious influences. Saul of Tarsus, ez, thought Bunyan might be reassured that he was doing God's service when whoever may have fallen into this he persecuted Jesus in the per-final sin will be the last to trouble He never about it. The Pharisees whom son of His followers. forgave himself, but his fellow- our Lord rebuked, for instance, Christians were able to do is and were absolutely satisfied with take him into full confidence. themselves and sure of their as did the Lord also.

It is possible to forgive the man of misguided conscience new teacher even though his error lead him crowding after a

afar astray. But can we forgive whom they took to be prophet or even the expected one who holds on to his sin in of reason and Crn-

Messiah. Had they gone spite

ance?

standing in this world and the world to come also. Their so strict laws against blasphemy made it punishable with death and so scrupulous were they about taking God's name in vain that they would not pronounce

adopted word Jehovah. But what availed this punctilious

When

reverence for a word? they saw God manifest in the flesh they refused to see, but only sneered that He was the agent of Satan, thereby doing all they: could to put themselves out of touch with God and all His ways. and works, so that unless they

You may lay aside revenge, but that is only part of true forgiveness. I am afraid the ordinary notion of the for- giveness of sins is far too mueb merely the letting us off certain consequences, but taking it eveo at that for argument's sake there is one result of sia from which God Himself cannot release the man who persists in choosing evil

their attitude they rather than good. That result is could have neither part the man himself, as he makes

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the Holy One and moulds himself. The man either here or hereafter. who remains contumacions and That is the final sin; not the impenitent is unforgiveable. Both utterance of a word, but

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with an open mind and clean science arging him to repent-it at all and substituted for it the bearta they would have shared freely in the showers of blessing which were falling. Instead they made themselves the one dry spot amid the dew. They heard. they saw, but only to the further hardening of their proud. selfish hearts. The matter came to a head when a man believed to be possessed by a blind and dumb spirit was restored to the rational use of his faculties. The common people cried, "Is not this the Son of David?" They judged Him by His fruite, praising the grace which flowed so and mercy freely from Him and gorifying God Who had given such power to men. But those others shat their eyes to the plain mean- ing of the facts they had come to look into, and whilst unable to deny that good was done they

Bscribed it to an infernal source.

It is hard to see how perversity could farther go. For one thing, the ..contention Was

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in this world and any other attitude of the heart, a state of world conceivable he shuts him-mini, toward which a man moves self cu from the Kingdom of every time he shuts his eyes Grace no matter how wide and against the light, sins wilfully, how long the door stands open fouts his conscience, quenches before him. Such was the con- the Spirit who strives with him. dition which these standerers I cannot think there can be many of our Lor were in danger who have become thus wholly of falling into. They were reject-dead to grace and goodness. But, ing Him not from ignorance or nany or few, they cannot be utterly misunderstanding, but because of among the sensitive soul who absurd, as the Master showed fundamental opposition to the torment themselves with when

He demanded of them light and batred of Him who is fear that they have, perhaps bor Satan could oust out Satan the Light. They were doing more unknowingly, committed the and be divided against himself. than thinking wrongly, of the "unforgiveablesin." Rather world But far worse than absurd, it was Son of Man; they were blasphem thoroughly bad. pleading a bad case in a bad way out of a bad spirit, and when even clever men go on that line, no absurdity is beyond them.

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They were ing the Spirit of Truth whose who would consider our discus-

office it is to reveal Him.

Such, I believe, is the scriptural sion of this serious subject a waste of time, who have no and reasonable view of the nature concern or apprehension about of the unforgiveable sin. For want of a right understanding impatient of any suggestion that their spiritual state and are only Now our Lord thought very

of the matter sensitive seriously of the matter. He saw

they should bethink themselves. these men were in a position of souls have suffered needless They may be found also among the utmost peril, withstanding apprehensions, though their very the professed cynics, the kind of the truth in a perversity which sensitiveness shows they have man who sneers at everything led them to put forward · so not fallen into the sin The good, insinuates that every man classic case is that of John has his price and every woman is preposterous & supposition as

Blasphemous speech that the kingdom of darkness Bunyan.

at heart a rake. was out to destroy itself. "St. was a great sin of his in his unre-

Still there is that in our Savi. Mark notes that He deliberately generate days. His extraordinour's warning which should be called them to Him- very ary powers of imagination and taken to heart by every one of us. utterance lent themselves to it Be careful of the beginnings unusual circumstance-and gave them this extremely solemn and betrayed him into torrents of which lead toward a hard, beed warning: Verily I say unto you, blasphemy which even abandog-

even the abounding grace of Al their eins shall be forgiven ed evil-doers, it is said, trembled less, numbed condition in which auto the sons of men, and their to listen to. No wonder that Christ would find no response in

of the warld except blasphemies wherewith they shall after he become a changed man us. Love the good, ballers in it U. S. PASSPORTS. blastband, but whosoever shall he had many an hour of remorse look out for it, class to it

Hungary, and nerkais blaspheme against the Holy and horror until he came to see cultivate it. Keep clate to your The American Cónsul General Dossíazin, Spirit th never forgiveness, put it, that the blood of Saviour in whom all good is found has received instructions. from partia

Christ could cleanse even such and from whom it flows. Continue Washington enabling him to here. but is guilty of an eternal sin.” Because adds the, evangelist, pollution as his.

in His love, listen keenly for the after issue emergency passp they said, "He hath an unclean But the unforgiveable sin is not voice of consciences and erians and otherwise docum That was their sin, the the mere utterance of profane or the Holy Brit auf God Americana, desiring to traysl

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