The record-union., 1897-11-13
A HIDING PLACE FOR men.
NOEL JACKS LECTURE LAST
EVENING.
The Savior Should be the Refuge
of Sinners Who Would
Escape Satan.

At the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation last night Noel H. Jacks spoke
on "A Hiding Place for Men. me
subject was based on the words OF
scripture found in Isaiah xxi, 2: And
a man shall be as a hiding place from
the wind. and a covert from the tenn
pest
did you ever?" he asked watch an
approaching storm and note its effects
on man. beast and bird? Do this some
times, and you will find it an interest
ing study A few years ago | was
spending an afternoon on hot sum-
mer's day in Central Park, New York
City. The park was thronged with
men, women and children. The drive
ways We're crowded with carriages.
Suddenly the sky began to grow dark,
and everybody knew a storm was COM
ing. The great crowds began to scat
ter, drivers of horses quickened their
pace, men, women and children We're
seen running ia NIL directions, as peal
after peal of thunder rolled through the
heavens; the birds fitted excitedly
among the trees making loud cries, and
when the storm finally broke in all it's
fury hardly a person was to be seen;
"
1T is an illustration of every human
life. Every man needs a hiding place
From what do men need a hiding place?
First, from the torments of an accus
ing conscience No other torment is
so great as that of an accusing con-
science. It has taken sleep from the
eyes; it has cauesd men to sweat in
agony; it has caused them voluntarily
RI ciy hoF hod b1lri iaJ
in the grave for years.
Macbeth looked at his hands after
the midnight murder of the poor King,
and cried out, Will all great Nep-
tunes ocean wash this blood clean
from my hand? No. this my hand
will rather the multitudinous seas in
carnadine. Making the green one red
Charles TX, after the massacre of
st. Bartholomew, exclaimed: %, nurse,
what massacres, what blood.' To his
doctor he said: Doctor, 1 don't know
what is the matter with me; am in
a fever of body and mind, and have
been for a long time. Q, if I had only
spared the innocent, the infants, and
the crippled
"Rosseau declared in old age that a
sin committed in youth still gave him
SANNklCoS lAlG 14lS- AJIldI les H. Vi spain
could not sleep at night without
confessor and two friars in his room
Cardinal Beaufort, having slain the
Duke of Gloucester, often in the night
would say: Away. away! why do you
look at me SOP
Richard III, having slain his two
nephews in the old tower, would some
times in the night shout from his couch
and clutch his sword, fighting specters
DR.. Webster, who murdered Parkman
In Boston, while in prison awaiting his
doom, complained that the prisoners
on the other side of the wall all night
kept charging him with his crime
There Were no prisoners on the other
side Of the wall
What allied these people? What
made Adam and Eve hide? What
made Cain cry out: My punishment is
greater than I can bear! What made
AFab say to Elijah, Hast thou found
me. o mine enemy? What made Bel
shazzar's knees smite? What made
Felix tremble?
1t was the power of conscience. We
all have a conscience and we all have
s1nned. Conscience may sleep. but it
never dies. 1t will awake some day
and woe to the man when it does who
has no place of refuge.
Second, men need a hiding place