Connecticut western news., 1895-05-09
The Yoica of God.

wash basin, the power of conscience. He had an idea there was blood on his blood of an innocent person, whom he might have acquitted if he only had the courage. Poor Pilatel His conscience was after him, and he knew the stain would never be washed from the right hand or the left hand, and un- til the day of his death, though he might wash in all the layers of the Roman em- pire, there would be still eight fingers and two thumbs red at the tips.
 Oh, the power of conscience when it is fully aroused With whip of scorpions over bed of spikes in pitch of midnight it chases guilt Are there ghosts? Yes, not of the graveyard, but of ones mind not at rest.
 And thus Brutus. amid his slumbering host,
 Startled with Csesar's stalwart ghost.
 Macbeth looked at his hand after the midnight assassination, and he says: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
 rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
 Making the green one red.
 For every sin, great or small, con- science, which is the voice of God, has more or less emphatic. Charles TX, responsible for St. Bartholomew was chased by the bitter mem ories, and in his dying moment said to his doctor, Ambrose Parry: Doctor, I don't know what's the matter with me. am in fever of body and mind and have been for long while. Oh, if had only spared the innocent and the imbe- cile and the crippleP Rousseau de- clared in old age that a sin he commit ted in his youth still gave him sleepless nights Charles II of Spain could not sleep unless he had in the room con- lessor and two friars. Catiline had such bitter memories he was startled at the least sound Cardinal Beaufort, having slain the Duke of Gloucester, often in the night would say: "Away, away Why do you look at me?" Richard III, having slain his two nephews, would sometimes in the night shout from his couch and clutch his sword, fighting ap partitions. Dr. Webster, having slain Parman in Boston, and while waiting for his doom, complained to the jailer that the prisoners on the other side of the wall all night long kept charging him with his crime, when there were no prisoners on the other side of the wall It was the voice of his own conscience.
 From what did Adam and Eve try to hide when they had all the world to themselves? From their own conscience. What made Gains punishment greater than he could bear? His conscience. What made Ahab cry out to the prophet, "Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?" What made the great Felix tremble be- fore the little missionary? Conscience. What made Belshazzar's teeth chatter with chill when he saw finger come out of the black sleeve of the midnight and write on the plastering? Conscience, conscience.
 Pricked by Coincidence.
 Why is it that that man in this audi ence with all the marks of worldly pros perity upon him is agitated while I speak and is now flushed and is now pale, and then the breath is uneven, and then beads of precipitation on the fore head, and then the look of unrest comes to look of horror and despair? I know not. But he knows, and God knows It may be that he despoiled fair young wife and turned innocence into waif and the smile of hope into the brazen laughter of despair. Or it may be that he has in his possession the property of others, and by some stratagem he keeps it according to law, and yet he knows it is not his own, and that if his heart should stop beating this moment he would be in he'll forever. Or it may be he is responsible for great mystery, the disappearance of some one who was never heard of, and the detectives were baff1ed, and the tracks were all covered up, and the swift horse or the rail train took him out of reach, and there are only two persons in the universe who know of it-God and himself. God present at the time of the tragedy and present at the retrospection and con- science with pinchers, conscience with fails, conscience with furnaces, is upon him, and until man s conscience rouses him he does not repent.
 What made that farmer converted to God go to his infdel neighbor and say "Neighbor, have four of your sheep. They came over into my fold six years ago. They had your mark upon them, and changed it to my mark. want you to have those sheep, and want you to have the interest on the money, and l want you to have the increase of the fold. If you want to send me to prison, I shall make no complaint?" The infidel heard of the mans conversion, and he said: "Now, now, if you have got them sheep you are welcome to them. don't
 want nothing of those things at all You | just go away from me. Something has got hold of you that I don't understand.
 heard you were down at those religious l meetings. But the converted mar would not allow things to stand in that
 way, and so the infdel said: Well
 now, you can pay me the value of tht
 sheep, and per cent interest from tha
 time to this, and shan't say anything
 more about it. Just go away from me. What was the matter with the two farm
 CTS? In the enc case O convicted con
 science leading him to honesty, and il
 the other case a convicted conscienc'
 warning against infdelity.
 | Converted Conscience.
 Thomas Oliver was one of John Wes
 ley's preachers. The early part of hi
 life had been full of recklessness, and h.
 had made debts wherever he could Dor
 row. He was converted to God, ant
 then he went forth to preach and pa,
 his debts. He had small amount O
 property left him, and immediately SC
 out to pay his debts, and everybod.
 knew he was in earnest, and to consum
 mate the last payment he had to sell hi
 horse and saddle and bridle. That wa
 conscience That is converted conscience
 That is religion. Frank Tiebout, a con
 verted rumseller, had a large amount O | "A ze L