Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1902-10-09

edy would cure him, and that until he car
comprehend it he will not accept It. Could
anything be more insane than such DO.
sltion! Or suppose he should say, "I
would take it., but know one who tried
species of insanity?
Second, what would you say concerning
the position of such sick man? know
what you would say. You would look at
hum and say, @Poor man; he is insane:
feelings have nothing to do with the mat
ter; you cannot grow better without a
remedy. The doctor understands the case
and an you do not need to understand it."
Ihls IS what you would say, but know
thousands of people who are away from
Chrlst and staying away from Him for
these very reasons
Some years ago young man threw him.
sen INTO the river from steamboat, and
at once the cry of "Man overboard!"
startled all the passengers. They threw
back the <searchlight in the darkness of
the night and could see that he was sink
ing, but suddenly some one threw him
rope. and cheer went up because he had
caught hold Of it. He drew the rope to-
ward him until at last they saw him lift
himself out CT the water and then throw it
as far as he could and go down beneath
the. waves. He was an insane man. hav-
ing escaped from his keepers, but the man
who rejects Christ, it would seem to me.
is more insane, for he has turned away
from the only cure for sin and rejected the
only hope of heaven.
There is a beginning to all of this Have
you heard the old fable of the ring, valu-
that was not all? Whenever it's wearer
stepped wrong the ring pressed his finger
and he would step right again. It was
fable of something that is true. That ring
IS conscience. There is many a man in
my audience whose consciousness of sin
beth, one Of Shakespeare's characters,
having committed murder says: "Will all
great Neptune's ocean make these hands
c!ean"' And, lifting them up, cries:
These hands will make the very sea red"
Il speak to some. young men in this
church whose conscience is still working.
You can put your hands over your eyes
sweet mother, who said to you: "My boy,
it is very wicked world. I am afraid
for you without a mothers presence"
You have memory of that mother Your
conscience is saying, "You had better give
| up that sin" God keep you from it.
| like to suggest this evening in closing.
| need not speak of the sin of drunkenness.
You have heard of it this evening. John
/ b. Cough used to say, "God forgive me.
do not speak it boastingly. Five years
OF my life were dark blot. I know what
the burning appetite for stimulants is. I
have felt its woes and have seen it in
many men who have died the drunkard's s
| death. but as God is my witness, [ say,
take away from me the friends of my old
age, let the hut Of poverty be my dwelling
| place, let me walk in the storm and live in
the whirlwind, when I do good let evil
come upon me, and the shouts Of my enc
/ Il conscience appears To- You nbw -cn9u-y,,t.
yield at once to it's teachings. Charles the
Ninth after the massacre of St. Bartholo-
NEW said to the doctor, 'I am fevered in
body and mind; oh, if [ had only spared
the innocent, the preachers and the chill
the sins committed in his youth gave him
sleepless nights. Richard the Third hav-
ing slain his two nephews in the tower
would sometimes in the night spring from
his couch and touch his sword as If to
fight the demons coming up against him
All this was conscience. In the name OF
God do not stife its voice and reject its
, I should like to say special word tt
| the boys I have the momory tonight O
| | a boy who told me that he had left hi
) fathers home and his fathers employ be
cause he had begun to take money from
him, and the habit had SO grown upo'
|
sist. "I began" said he. with penny
e my last theft was S. at single time: Qk
t | sir" said he, edo you think God viii fo1
: give me if I confess it to my father" |
v is a mistake to step aside the least in
!, life of sin and call upon the boys to tur
: squarely about. ,-NJ'
o I remember the man of whom they toll
! me his mania was that he could not fol
t get This man could not forget, nor do
& think we can forget. There is Cain wit
l. the mark Of murder. He cannot Forget
= before him and his hands red with H
y blood He cannot forget. Judas, with tn
]. chnking Of the thirty pieces Of silver,
,e cannot forget. Abraham, looking dow
y into the depths, says, "Son, remember" !"
q When Richard Cour de Leon was
II prisoner the people could not tell whe1
,e he was. The cry went up, "Where is tt
sr king?" An old musician said, Il will TN
IS him" .And so to every. penal Institute
" he made his way and played the tune
IS Richard Cour de Leon. After YHh! H
ct de Leon heard. wish I could awake
~ the memories of your boyhood. I wi!
90 every man here could remember his mot
II er and father, the old minister and Il
~ ~, music of the chime, "Delay not. Dell
y not. o sinner draw nigh" They told n
-, that sometimes in the minds Of the po
- people who are insane there will come
oe streak of light, little prophecy OF hor
&c I have an idea in every mans soul the
he has been such ray of hope from heave
+ You can be Christian if you will. u
I help you to be free man.
&C Love For God.