The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-02
FROM the only cure for sin and rejected the
only hope of heaven.

from the only cure for sin and rejected the
only hope of heaven.
ILL.,.
There is a beginning to al of this. Have
YOU heard the Old fable OF the ring. valu-
abe because Of its gold. to be sure. but
that was not all? Whenever its wearer
Stoned wrong the ring pressed his finger
ard h would step right again. It was a
fable of something that is true. That ring
is conscience. There is Tany 4 man IN
nv audience whose consciousness o. SIN
Eve wars ago kent him from evil. Mac.
hct:,. ore Of Shaxesneares characters.
haviny committed murder says: Will all
great Neptune's ocean make these hands
~"'eaa?" Aad. lifting them up. cries:
These hands will make the very sea red
I speak to some young men IN thus
rh-rch whose conscience is still working.
and there is before YOU the face of a
sweet mother, who said to you: "My bow.
it is a very wicked world. I am afraid
for YOU without a mothers presence"
You have a memory OF that mother. Your
conscience is saving. You had better give
up that sin" God keep you from it..
There are special sins which | should
like to suggest this evening in closing. l
need not speak Of the sin OF drunkenness.
YOU have heard Of it this evening. john
B. Cough used to say. God forgive me.
I do not speak it boastingly. Five years
OF nv life were a dark bot. / know what
the burning appetite for stimuiants is. l
have felt its woes and / have seen it IN
r,anv men who have died the drunkards
death but as God is nv witness. / saw.
take away from re the friends of my Old
age. Ter the hut Of poverty be my dwelling
pace. let me walk in the storm and live in
the whirlwind, when l do GOOD let evil
come upon me. and the shouts Of my enc.
mes 80 the sound Of many waters. do all
this. o merciful God. hut snare me from
the death of a %drunkard." I beseech YOU.
if conscience appeals to Won nov that You
Weld at once to its teachings. Charles the
Ninth after the massacre Of st. Bartho'n-
new said to the doctor. II am fevered in
the innocent. the preachers and the chit
dren." Rousseau declared in cd age that
the sins committed in his youth gave him
s.eepless nights. Richard the Third hav-
inc siain his two neDhews in the tower
would sometimes in the night snring from
his couch and touch his sword as If to
1ipht the demons coming up against him:
All this was conscience. In TIE name of
God do not st:he its voice and reject its
warning.
I should like to say a special word to
tho boys. l have the momory tonight OF
n hoy who told me- that he had left his
fathers home and his fathers employ be-
cause he had begun TO take money from
him. and the habit Ind so grown upon
him that it was imnnssibie for him to re-
sist. 81 began." said he, with a penny;
my last theft was s. at a single time. Oh.
civ ~ cail ho edo van fhinl. f'od Will for
give me if I confess it to my fathe-?' 1t
is a mistake to step aside the least in a
life of sin and l cal Upon the boys to turn
s~cuarely about.
I remember the man Of WHOM thev told
me his mania was that he cou'd not for.
ret. This man could not forget. nor do /
think we can forget. There is Cain with
The mark of murder. He cannot forget.
There is PLATE. with the memo"y Of JESUS
before him and his hands rcd with H;s
blood. He cannot forget. Jud9s. with the
clinking OF the thirty pieces o. silve-. he
cannot forget. Abraham, looking down
into the depths, saws. "Son, remember"
When Richard Cour de Leon was 4
he was. The cry went up, "Where is the
king" An old musician said. al will find
him." And so to every penal institution
he made his wav and played the tune OF
Richard Cour de Leon. After a while
there came a huttering sign that Richard
de Leon heard. l wish I could awaken
the memories of your boyhood. I wish
every man here could remember his moth
er and father, the old minister and the
music of the chime, Delay not. Delay
not. o sinner draw nigh" They told me
that. sometimes in the minds of the poor
people who are insane there will come a
streak Of light, a little prophecy of hope.
I have an idea in every mans soul there
has been such a ray of hone from heaven.
You can be a Christian if You will. God
help you to be a free man.