- Collection:
- John Newton Waddel papers, 1821‐1881
- Title:
- [Title unknown; single page 4]
- Creator:
- Waddel, John N. (John Newton), 1812-1895
- Date of Original:
- 1821/1881
- Subject:
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Sermons--19th century
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Theology
Sin--Christianity
Religious life - People:
- Waddel, John N. (John Newton), 1812-1895
- Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- sermons
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Sermon fragment written by John N. Waddel in which he grieves at the fact that many choose the pleasures of sin over religious life. He remarks how false, temporary and illusory those pleasures are and yet how powerfully they hold the sinner in their grasp.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gcl_waddel_cts02-01-14-03
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gcl_waddel_cts02-01-14-03#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gcl_waddel_cts02-01-14-03/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
[Title unknown; single page 4] (4) the fine promises held out to them -- the wages of sin in these forms, turn out to be disgrace, rage, poverty, often a prison & death? Nay, look higher, The young will not become religious because they cannot make up their minds to surrender the pleasures of Sin! One such occurs to me. Now when we consider the feebleness of these opponents of a religious life, how false, and disastrous and ruinous they prove in the end, & how all experience shows these things to be true [that man] that sin. Fr. still waves its banner of eternal triumph over all these antagonists, and stands unmoved pointing the deluded chn of men to the lies told by Sin & Satan -- that still men live & die in the pursuit of those phantoms -- and will not come &?