Fifth Saturday in Lent.
THE EFFECTS OF SIN.
(Continued.)
We will now further consider the effects of Sin, and these the particular effects.
We live three lives; as we are made up of Body, Mind, and Soul, each has its special life. The Body lives an animal life, the Mind an intelligent life, and the Soul a spiritual life.
Sin produces a disturbing and poisoning effect on all these lives.
1. The life of the Body. God made man healthy, vigorous, and immortal. The introduction of Sin into the world has produced disease, infirmity, and death.
Sin is the cause of hard and exhausting toil, of the many hardships, privations, troubles to which we are exposed in this life, and it is the cause of the separation of soul and body in death, and of the corruption that ensues in the grave.