The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-01-15

sentenced to death. But three or four por-
sons. hearing OF tho case, came up In tune
to swear that they, too, heard the CLOCK
mans life was spared. My hearer, II you go
on and thoroughly learn the drunkards'
song. perhaps in the deep midnight OF your
soul there may sound something that Will
yet effect your moral and eternal rescue.
tional. Go ahead on that wrong road. and
the clock will more probably strike the IL
that closes your day OF opportunity than
that It will strike 13, the sound OF your de-
liverancc.
few Sabbaths ago on the steps OF this
church a man whom had known in other
years confronted me. At the first glance
saw that he was in tho fifth aud last act OF
tho tragedy OF intemparance. Splendid
even in his ruin. The same brilliant eye,
and the same courtly manners. and the re-
mains OF tho same intellectual endow-
ments, but wreck. L had Seeu that craft
! running by true compass: wife aud chill
dren and friends on boaci. himself COM
manding in voyage that he expected
would be glorious. putting into prosperous
harbors OF earth anu at last putting into tn,
harbor Of heaven. But now wreck, towel
along by low appatites. that evor AMI anon
run him into the breaSerS-l wreck Of body.
wreck OF mind. n wreck OF soul. "Whoro
is your wife, - do not know" "Whera
ara your chldren?" "I do not know"
''Where is your Gol?" 'I do not know"
That man is coming to tho last verso OF that
long cantata, that protracted threnoiy, tina.
terrible song OF the drunkaris.
But IL these words Shoull cone-.or you
know tho largest Al licnco I reach [ never
$40 at ALL say IL these words should come,
though ut the ends OF the earth. to any fall
len man, lot mo say to him: b. tho exceD-
tion to tho general rule and turn and live.
while rccall to YOU n scene in England,
whcrs some one said to IN inebriato IA he
was going out ofchur,h waero thera was n
great awakening, "Whv don't You sign tho
pleige?" He answered. "I havo signed it
"Why, then" said the gentleman talking to
him. 'ion't you go upani kneel attho altar.
amid thosn other penitents?" Hs
took tho aivico anil went and knelt
After Att; ,a,li nwhle ,,n Ill. little girl, in rags
church door. anl some one sa,l: "What nre
you doing here. litt,e gir;?" She snid:
"ploase. sir. 1 heari rs my father is here
Why. that is nv father up thero kneelins
now" Sho wont uo AMI put hnr arms
arounl her f,thor's mock ana said: "Fathar.
what are YOU doing here?" Aud he said: /:
'I am asking God to forgive mo-" Said
she: 1T He torsives ,vor. will W. bo happy
again, AGAIN. 6ss' my dsar' win wa hav.
"And will YOU never strike MS againP"
ono. my child" "wait here" said she.
"till I go and catl mother" And soon thu
child came with tho mother, and tho mother.
knealnG beside tho husban !. said: .Saya
ma tool Save me- too"
Ani tho Lori h"e-l tho prayer n that
altar, AM ono OF the hanpiest homes in En-
lan1 is the home over which that father aud
mother now lovincly preside SO. If in this
sermon hlva wlrnn1 others against n dis
sinat"i life, with tho fact that so few return
after tt"y hlvo once gone astray. for ths on
corra2nMnnt ~ those who woull like 20 re-
turn | toll vou Goa wants you 70 como
back. every ono Of you. au! to cone back
now, AMI mOrs t"nlHrly AMI lovingly than
anv mother ever iiftOl q sick child out OF a
era lie. AMI folded 1t in her arms. aud crooned
over 1t n lullaby AMI rocked it to and fro.
mo Lori will taEe You up aul fold you in
the arms Of his pari onins love.
There's Wilderness In GNd's mercy.
Like the Wilderness Of t',n sea:
There's Kindness in his Justice.
Which Is more than liberty.