Our Need for God’s Salvation “There is something in the history of that apple which might be brought specially to bear on the case of those small sinners who practice in secret at the work of their petty depredations.  But it also carries in it a great and a universal moral.  It tells us that no sin is small. It serves a general purpose of conviction.  It holds out a most alarming disclosure of the charge that is against us; and makes it manifest to the conscience of him who is awakened thereby, that, unless God Himself point out a way of escape, we are indeed most hopelessly sunk in condemnation.  And, seeing that such wrath went out from the sanctuary of this unchangeable God, on the one offence of our first parents, it irresistibly follows, that if we, manifold in guilt, take not ourselves to His appointed way of reconciliation--if we refuse the overtures of Him, who then so visited the one offence through which all are dead, but is now laying before us all that free gift, which is of many offences unto justification--in other words, if we will not enter into peace through the offered Mediator, how much greater must be the wrath that abideth on us?”   -- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847)