instead of laying them by against a time of need--has not thy sin
found thee out? Then be sure it will some day, when thou hast to
bring home thy bride to a cheerless, unfurnished house, and there to
live from hand to mouth,--without money to provide for her
sickness,--without money to give her the means of keeping things
neat and comfortable when she is well,--without a farthing laid by
against distress, and illness, and old age:--THEN your sin will find
you out: then, perhaps, my text,--my words--may come across you as
you sigh in vain in your comfortless home, in your impoverished old
age, for the money which you wasted in your youth! My friends, my
friends, for your own sakes consider, and mend ere that day come, as
else it surely will!

And, lastly, you who, without running into any especial sins, as
those which the world calls sins, still live careless about
religion, without loyalty to Christ the Lord, without any honest
attempt, or even wish, to serve the God above you, or to rejoice in
remembering that you are His children, working for Him and under
Him,--be sure your sin will find you out. When affliction, or
sickness, or disappointment come, as come they will, if God has not
cast you off;--when the dark day dawns, and your fool's paradise of
worldly prosperity is cut away from under your feet, then you will
find out your folly--you will find that you have insulted the only
Friend who can bring you out of affliction--cast off the only
comfort which can strengthen you to bear affliction--forgotten the
only knowledge which will enable you to be the wiser for affliction.
Then, I say, the sin of your godlessness will find you out; if you
do not intend to fall, soured and sickened merely by God's
chastisements, either into stupid despair or peevish discontent, you
will have to go back, to go back to God and cry, "Father, I have