Sin's Treacherousness
Written by ChantelleV
Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 04:10 PM.
Some years ago a noted wild beast tamer gave a performance in England. He took tigers, lions,loepards and hyenas through their part of the entertainment astonishing the audience by his complete control over them. As a closing act, he introduced an enormous boa constrictor, twenty-five feet long. He had bought it when it was only two or three days old and for twenty-five years he had handled it daily, so that it was considered perfectly harmless and completely under his control. The curtain rose upon an Indian woodland scene. The music of an Oriental band steals through the trees, a rustling sound is heard and a huge serpent is seen winding its way through the undergrowth. It stops, its head erect, its bright eyes sparkle, its whole body seems animated. The tamer comes forward and at the signal from him the snake slowly approaches as it has done every day before and begins to coil its heavy folds around him . Higher and higher it rises, until the man and the serpent seem blended into one, and the hideous head is raised above the man.Why we can not say, but at that very moment the deadly serpent-nature seemed to return. The man gave a scream, the audience burst into applause, but the cheers froze on their lips. The tamer's scream was a deathwail of agony, the cold shining folds had embraced him for the last time. The audience heard bone after bone crack as they tightened upon him. His plaything had become his master and destroyer. Oh, what a picture of sin! How dreadful is the power of sin. -E.Gorham Clark
