The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-10-31

anything he more insane than such a 20.
ation? Or suppose be should say, Z
would take It, but know one who tried
IL aud failed" ask YOU, Dc not this 3
gpecies of insanity?
Second. what would Won say concerning
the position Of such q sick manl ] know
what sou would say. You would look az
him and say Poor man. he is inaanes
feelings have nothing 10 do with the mat
ter; you cannot grow better without
remedy. The doctor understands the ease
| and YOU do not need 10 understand It,"
| This Is whi you would say, but ! know
| thousands of people who are away from
| Christ and staying away from Him Tor
| these very reasons
Some years ago a young man threw him.
/ self into the river from q steamboat and
| Mt once the cry Of Nan oyerboard,"
startled all the passengers. They threw
| back the searchlight in the darkness o.
/ the night and could see that he was sink
/ ing but suddenly some one threw him
| rope, and a cheer went up because he had
caught hold of IL. He drew the rope to
| ward him until at last they saw him life
| himself out Of the water and then throw IL
90 far as he could and go down beneath
| the waves. He was an insane man, haV
ing escaped from his keepers, but the mar
who rejects Christ II would seem to me
2 more insane, for he has turned awaI
from the only cure Tor SIN and rejected the
only hope Of heaven.
III.
There is beginning to al Of this. Have
Won heard the old fable of the ring, valu-
able because Of its gold, to be sure, but
/ that was not all? Whenever ITS wearer
stepped wrong the ring pressed his hnger
and he would step right again. IT was
, fable Of something that is true. mat rlng
is conscience. There is many man IN
! my audience whose consciousness OF SIN
. Ave wears ago kept him from evil Mac
; beth, one of shakespeare's characters;
, having committed murder says: VIII an
| great Neptune's ocean make these hands
Z clean" And, lifting them up, cries.
: "These hands will make the very sea red;
. speak to some young men IN th@
!. church whose conscience IS sth working.
: Yon can put your hands over your eyes
i and there is before you the face OF .
= sweet mother. who said to you: My boy;
. IL is a very wicked world. l am AFRAID
- for you without a mothers presence.
a You have a memory OF that mother. Your
~ conscience is saving. "You had better give
70 up that sin" God keep you from IT..
~ There are special sins which l should
N like 10 suggest this evening in closing. L
20 need not speak Of the sin of drunkenness.
~ You have heard of it this evening. John
40 B. Cough used to say, God forgive me,
- do not speak it boastingly. Five years
y OF nv life were dark blot. l know what
~ the burning appetite for stimuants IS l
or have felt its woes and | have seen 1t IN
- MANY men who have died the drunkard' 3
81 death but as God is nv witness l say,
IN take away from me the friends OF my old
he age. LET tue hut Of poverty be my dwelling
| place let me walk in the storm and live IN
rs the whirlwind, when / do good let evil
~ come upon me- and the shouts OF my enc,
W. mics as the sound of many waters, do all
an this, o mercifu God, but spare me IRON
M the death of a drunkard." / beseech you,
od II conscience appeals to YOU now that you
" Weld at once to its teachings Charles the
Ninth after the massacre of st. Bartholo
lsc new said to the doctor, Il am fevered n
d BODY and mind: oh. if I had only spared
III the innocent, the preachers and the chi
dren." Rousseau declared in old age tina
sti- the sins committed in his youth gave hin
nee sleepless nights. Richard the Third hav
it ing slain his two neUhews in the towe
his would sometimes in the night spring from
by, his couch and touch his sword az II II
t a fight the demons coming up against him
avs All this was conscience. In the name o
he God do not stihe its voice and reject 1T
wn warning.
lial I should. like to say special word t
ms the boys. / have the momory tonight {
age a boy who told me that he had left hi
led, | fathers home and his fathers employ b.
APP. cause he had begun to take money froI
in. | him, and the habit had so grown upo
the him that it was impossible for him to n
not sist IT began" said he, with penn!
cry. my last theft was So at a single time. o.
)rly sir" said he, "do you think God will TO
self, give me if I confess it to my father"
FIRE. is a mistake to step aside the least in
to life of sin and call upon the boys to tut
pre-. squarely about
v at I remember the man of whom they to
feet me his mania was that he could not fo
IN
sane think we can forget. There is Cain wi
per- the mark of murder. He cannot forge
erW There is Plate with the memory OF Jes
said. before him and his hands red with j
, be blood. He cannot forget. Judas, with t
ling, clinking of the thirty pieces OF silver,
MS to cannot forget Abraham, looking dol
bout into the depths, SAYS, "Son, remember.
& he When Richard Cour de Leon was
lever prisoner the people could not tell wht
his he was. The cry went up, "Where is
sibly king?" An old musician said, 81 will fl
re is him" And so to every penal institute
one. he made his way and played the tune
strict Richard Cour de Leon. After a wi
IS too there came a huttering sign that Rich3
was de Leon heard / wish / could avail
Mould the memories of your boyhood. l W
every every man here could remember his mo
hood, er and father, the old minister and
music of the chime, Delay not. De
men. not. o sinner draw nigh" They told
some that sometimes in the minds of the p
,ut as people who are insane there will com
+ the streak of light, a little prophecy Of he
IN. if I have an idea in every mans soul tn
air / has been such a ray of hope from heay
man You can be Christian if you will
as ac- help you to be free man