The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-08-22

be holds on 90 one sinful alliance, on lfeps
step with one sinful companion.
III.
Let it De remembered therefore that you
viii be obliged % pay first for every su
INDUCED Look back over your p0st-lie
the youth You have wasted. the opp0rtuni
ties you have lost, the strength that has
gone. you viii have TO pay for
How many times we have heard men
say, IF i could only $50 back to che days
Of my youth but you cannot. they are
gone. and although sins may be pardoned
manhood is affected, character weakened,
tho soul scarrcd that is the price 0i The
sins OF our youth. 81 would give my right
hand j." said distinguished man in De-
troit. 'if / could forget The sins of my
youth and sacrifice my left hand and my
eyes III / could put away the sinful stories
Of my boyhood's days.
Second. FOR the habits Of indulgence we
shal be Obliged 10 pay. We wake up az
foreS years in the midst of a busy world,
every man is busy about as, and before we
can seize an opportunity it is gone before
we can take advantage of blessing no is
away, and habits Of indulgence TO a greater
or less degree will cling TO you till death
You may have gone through the worst
forms of sin. and God viii forgive you, but
you are marked.
once said to friend Of mine As I was
trying to help one who has been q drunk
ard. II often wish that / had felt the pangs
and suiIerings of Incorporate men that
might better sympathize with men" and 1
shall never forget his face; 10 grew deathly
white, and Tie tears ran down his cheeks
as he said. "Never say it again, for IT i
could only forget / would be perfectly
happy, but while it is true that we never
] = g. il Ia L,u rrffN
remember your transgresslOns no more Tor
ever" and in the Old Testament has de-
clared that "our sins shall not be men
toned against MS in that day"
Third we shall have to pay for every
warning given. AfterJ onah was rescued and
entered Nineveh he cried aloud "Yet forty
days and Nineveh shall be overthrown but
God has been better to you than that.
Yhey had one appeal, you have had nifty;
they had one warning, you have had
| thousand they had forty days. you have
had forty years. Sometimes the warning
! has come in the providences Of God. some
times in the sickness Of the night when the
very ticking of the clock was an invitation,
and we shall have to pay for consciences
scared and hearts burdened and we shall
| be obliged to 20 out into the world to come
\ absolutely shorn of excuses. 1t Is not
necessary to speak Of big sins. DR.. Tai
mage has said, however, that there are i've
/ acts in the rum traffic
ACT THE FIRST.
A man starting from home for college,
! his parents weeping, his sister almost with
! heart breaking. and as he leaves the house
! they stand in the doorway Of the old home
to wave him farewell until he is over the
Hill and gone.
The marriage altar and the church filed
with music and two hearts beating as one
and a new home established.
ACT THE THIRD.
Midnight and a woman waiting IN a
home Of poverty for husband who does
not come home, and when he comes is IN
ACT THE FOURTH
Three graves in a dark place. the grave
of child who died of neglect, the grave OF
woman who died of broken heart, the
grave of a man who has killed himself
ACT THE FIFTH.
A distressed souls entry, no music, no
life, the backness Of darkness everywhere.
v.
Suppose we 90 on in 5he way in which
we started Oh, what an infinite cost, ig-
noring conscience and the prayers of our
friends and the pleading of the Spirit.
A young boy sent away from New York
to Western city provided with new
suit Of clothes and a new hat, was seen
tearing the lining out Of his old hat. and
when asked why he was doing so said, 1T
was a piece of my mothers dress and /
cannot 90 without it. She loves me, and
it is vi I have of hers" but it is not all
that you have of your mother; you have
the memory. of her sweet life and the
vision of her tears Of concern and the sad
look of her face as she said, Il beseech
you do not go astray" and you promised
you would not, and you have. Manhood
will suffer if you 60 on.
Here is a graduating scene in a Western
college, and at the feet Of the leader OF
the class the flowers are thrown, and as he
descends from the platform the old college
hall rings with cheers and people rise and
congratulate the aged father and the low
ing mother on having such boy, and here
is picture of prison cell and the in
mates hair is matted and his eyes are
bruised, and the picture of the second is
the picture Of the first after the trans
forming power of sin. Oh, that we might
turn to God to-day, for we may wait unit
! it is too late.
| The Rebecca Goddard years ago came al
! most within sight of the New York harbol
and was then caught in the ice and thrown
back again at sea, drifted for days at th'
mercy of the waves and finally was lost
and vet she was within sight of the har
. Dor. God pity us if we should be in sigh
IF home tonight and after all be lost.