all into whose hands this paper may fall, without distinction or
I have told you what I am firmly persuaded is God's own truth—the truth on which I desire myself to live and die. I pray God that the Holy Spirit may apply this truth with mighty power to many souls.
Let me wind up all this subject by three words of parting application. Our years are passing quickly away. The night comes, when no man can work. Yet a little time, and our place in another world will be settled to all eternity. A few more years, and we shall be either in heaven or in hell. Surely this fact alone ought to set us thinking.
1. My first word of application shall be a QUESTION. I address it to all into whose hands this paper may fall, without distinction or exception. It is a question which concerns deeply every man, woman, and child in the world, whatever be their rank or station. It is the question which rises naturally out of our subject, "Where are your sins?"
Remember, I do not ask you what you call yourself in religion. I do not ask you where you go—or whom you hear—or to what party you belong—or what are your peculiar opinions about Church or Dissent. I leave such matters alone. I am weary to see the enormous waste of time of which multitudes are yearly guilty in respect to these matters. I am for the realities and substance of Christianity; I want to fix your attention on the things which will look important in the hour of death and at the last day. And I say boldly, that one of the first questions which demand your notice, is the question, "Where are your sins?"
I am not asking what you intend, or mean, or hope, or resolve to aim at, at some future time; I leave all that to children and fools. Tomorrow is the devil's day—but today is God's. And here, as in God's sight, this very day, while you are reading my paper, I ask you to find an answer to my question, "Where are your sins?"
I ask you to mark what I am going to say. I say it calmly, deliberately, advisedly, and with consideration. I tell you that at this moment