March 1

It seems to me, my friends, that all this great

picture of the liberty into which Christ sets man, in the first place does one thing which we are longing to see done in the world. It takes away the glamor and the splendor from sin. It breaks that spell by which men think that the evil thing is the glorious thing. If the evil thing be that which Christ has told us that the evil thing is— which I have no time to tell you now—if every sin that you do is not simply a stain upon your soul, but is keeping you out from some great and splendid thing which you might do, then is there any sort of splendor and glory about sin?