The Penn's Grove record., 1904-01-22
WHO STOLE THAT ROOSTER
ASynopsis of a Sermon Preached in
Emmanuel M. e. Church BY
Rev. j.. H. Boyd.

DOJOs
The Pastor read Mark 14:27-72, and
said in substance.
| wish to call your attention to the in
strument which awakened the conscience
of Peter while denying that he knew
Jesus. Because that instrument was a
rooster, and because other men are doing
IN a way, the same thing which Peter
did, and because they continue to do it,
| have concluded that there is a rooster
missing and that the Devil has stolen
him.
When | consider the reckless abandon,
and debanched condition Of the people
to-day in all the walks of life, national,
civil, social, political and religious / can
only account for it in the slumbering
conscience, and no rooster to awaken it.
Without a n active working conscience
the difference between saint and sinner
is only in the way both arrive at the
same place. The saint doesn't go where
he is looking, and the sinner doesn't look
where he is going.
Conscience is the voice of the soul.
Passion is the voice of the body. The
two voices often contradict each other.
Conscience is the God in man. and against
u 0OCiciOH UnCiC 10 III APPEAL. w Hat IL
looses on earth shall be loosed in Heav-
ell, and what it finds on earth shall be
bound in Heaven.
To say my conscience does not con
denim me-" is to admit the influence of
conscience. If the conduct or life is in
violation of the golden rule it shows a
sleeping conscience and not a waking
conscience working wrong. His rooster
has been stolen.
Suppose a mans watch stops, and at
high noon it is only 8 o'clock by his
watch. Would you thinkit was 9 O'Clock
to him, and IL o'clock for you. Ii he
were going home to Camden on the II
O'Clock train, would he get there, if he
failed to start his watch.
No man car get home to heaven by
consulting a rundown or stopped con
science.
The young fend who shot Mckinley
said his conscience didnot condemn him.
The anarchist devil stole his rooster.
NATIONAL ROOSTER is MISSING.
Benjamin Harrison once said, cit was
not in the power Of any people on earth
to hurt us, except Our WI people,"
America is Gods destined refuge from
tyranny. and aristocracy, but there is a
slumbering conscience in our nation to-
day, which permits the rich to grow
richer by pauperizing the poor. We are
rapidly becoming a condition which
might be called rich man, poor man,
beggar man, thieves.
REPUBLICS CAN NOT WITHSTAND AvARICE.
Political Rooster gone We are dashed
into line by a lot Of constituencies poll
tical bosses. Most of our statesmen are
demagogues. True and self sacrificing
patriotism has almost disappeared. Many
hordes of hangerson feed at the public
crib. Public %treasurers are looted. vice
is under police protection, and you can
buy a vote for as low as a glass of beer.
The SO called FLOATING vote" the balance
of power, is held in the grasp OF a lot of
low down roosterless voters known as re-
peaters.
| have known county clerks who diff
fered from the criminals, they sent to
jail in that the criminal was caught COM
hitting state prison offences, and the
clerk was not caught. The legal rooster
sleeps and the people must resort to mob
and lynch law. Laws are framed in the
interest of the rascal.
THE SOCIAL ROOSTER G TO o
Society harnesses their passions to their
lives like so many horses hitched to a
coach, and are dragged about here and
there. They say they are following the
dictates of their conscience. They are
following their passions in the same sense
that a coaclman follows the horses he is
driving.
A mother teaches her child that homes
ty is the best policy ami then walks to
the railroad station and buys a half fare
ticket for that same child two years too
old to honestly claim it. A mother
speaking to another, said in the presence
Of her son., | have been married just IL
years, why mother, interrupted the boy,
if you and pop have only been married II
years and you told the factory inspector
/ was IA years old, where was l when
you were married. There was no cock
growing to break the awful silence which
followed.
THE CHRISTIAN ROOSTER
must have stopped or got stolen. The
people get intoxicated with Gods good
ness because he requires so little they
offer him less. They rob him of the
one-tenth and sneak after him to hook
the last day, alter he had given them six
of the only seven days in the week.
Where is mothers share2 Was asked
Of a little child, who was rapidly devour.
ing all the chocolate almonds he bought