The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-12

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clean?" AID, lifting 90, cries:
''These hands will make the very sea red"
| speak to some young men in this
church whose conscience is still working.
You can put your hands over your eyes
and there is before you the face of
sweet mother, who said to you: MY boy,
it is very wicked world. l am afraid
for YOU without mothers presence"
You have a memory of that mother Your
conscience is saving. ''You had better give
up that ain" God keen you from it,
There are special sins which | should
like to suggest this evening in closing
need not sneak 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
the burning appetite for stimulants is.
have felt its woes and have seen it in
many men who have died the drunkard'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 | do good let evil
come upon me, and the shouts of my enc
mes as the sound of many waters, do all
this, O merciful God, but spare me from
The death OF drunkard' | beseeeh you.
IT conscience appeals to you now that You
Weld at once to its teachings Charles the
Ninth after the massacre of st. Bartholo-
NEW said to the doctor. II am fevered in
body and mind; on. if | had only spared
the innocent the preachers and the chill
dren. Rousseau declared in old age that
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
light the demons coming up against him.
All this was conscience. In the name of
God do not stifie its voice and reject its
warning.
should like to say special word to
the boys. ] have the momory tonight OF
q boy who told me that he had left his
fathers home and his fathers employ be-
cause he had begun TO take money from
hun, and the habit had so grown upon
HIM that it was impossible for him to. re-
slst- Il began" said he, with penny;
my last theft was S. at a single time. Oh,
Sill" said he, do you think God will for
give me if | confess it to my father" 1t
IS a mistake to step aside the least in a
life OF sin and | call upon the boys TO turn
squarely about.
| remember the man OF whom they told
me his mania was that he could not for
get 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 memory of Jesus
before him and his hands red with His
blood. He cannot forget. Judas, with the
chnking of the thirty pieces of silver, he
cannot forget. Abraham, looking down
into the depths, says, Son, remember"
When Richard Cour de Leon was a
prisoner the people could not tell where
he was. The cry went up, Where is the
llingW An old musician said. 81 will find
him" And so to every penal institution
he made his way and played the tune of
Richard Cour de Leon. After while
there came fluttering sign that Richard
de Leon heard. / wish / could awaken
the memories of your boyhood. | wish
every man here could remember his mothr
er and father, the old minister and the
music of the chime, Delay not. Delay
not 0 sinner draw nigh" They told me
that sometimes in the minds of the poor
people who are insane there will come
streak of light little prophecy of hope.
! have an idea in every mans soul there
has been such ray of hope from heaven.
You can be Christian if you will. God
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