Heart-beat after heart-beat, breath after breath, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, and all full of sin; all nothing but sin from our mother's womb to our grave.

Sometimes one outstanding act of sin has quite overwhelmed us.

But before long that awful sin fell out of sight and out of mind.

Other sins of the same kind succeeded it.

Our sense of sin, our sense of guilt was soon extinguished by a life of sin, till, at the present moment the accumulated and tremendous load of our sin and guilt is no more felt by us than we feel the tremendous load of the atmosphere.
But, all the time, does not our great guilt lie sealed down upon us?
Because we are too seared and too stupefied to feel it, is it therefore not there?
Because we never think of it, does that prove that both God and man have forgiven and forgotten it?
Shall the Judge of all the earth do right in the matter of all men's guilt but ours?
Does the apostle's warning not hold in our case ?--his awful warning that we shall all stand before the judgment-seat?
And is it only a strong figure of speech that the books shall be opened till we shall cry to the mountains to fall on us and to the rocks to cover us?
Oh no! the truth is, the half has not been told us of the speechless stupefaction that shall fall on us when the trumpet shall sound and when Alp upon Alp of aggravated guilt shall rise up high as heaven between us and our salvation.