The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-02-23
4 BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
MAUD DARLINGTON BOOTH, OF
THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
Subject: Freedom Through Christ.

Subject: Freedom Through Christ.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-The seating capac-
ity at the Majestic Theatre was taxed
to its utmost Sunday afternoon at the
meeting under the auspices Of the 7.
NJ. c. A. and many were unable to Sc
cure admission. At the close Of Mrs.
Booths address there was a most i'm
presslve sight. AS she gave the invita-
ton for men to definitely accept Christ.
men all over the house stood with
heads bowed and after Il moment Of
prayer the audience was dismissed.
Mrs. Booth said in the course Of her
address:
l esteem it great privilege to have
the opportunity Of bringing message
from my heart to this great audience
this afternoon, and / am so glad that
I come to you merely as messenger;
that l have not to rise before this
audience to exploit sone hobby of my
own; that l do not come to you with
some theory. but that l realize as
stand up and speak that my message
is not only my own, but that come to
you as l went to my audience this
morning with message from One who
can follow the message with the divine
touch. AS I looked down upon and
out upon this audience trying to gather
something from the faces Of those
whom / was to address saw arise be-
fore me again my audience Of this
morning. very different one in one
sense and very similar in another. 1t
was an audience of men-all men-and
an audience perhaps nearly as large as
the one which address this afternoon.
but. ah. what difference. 1t was an
a 9iience behind prison walls. An au-
6ence of men who have lost their
)chance, an audience Of men shut away
from the world and its sunlight and
blessings and happiness and freedom
and JOY, aiIu who in the darkness Of
prison walls have learned to the full
the bitterness Of life Of sin. and yet
as rise to speak to this audience this
afternoon my message will be very
much the same as my message to that
audience this morning, for I cone not
here to speak to Christians this after
noon. My message is message to the
captive. message of liberty to those
who are bound, and it does not take
the walls of Sing Sing; it does not take
those narrow cells to make bondage.
but there are many who walk the
streets of Brooklyn in the sunshine to-
day and who boast that they are free
citizens, who are shackled and bound
because they have not yet learned the
freedom that the dear Christ can
bring.
AS spoke to my boys this morning
I quoted to them two lines that some
how or other came to my notice a
little while ago, and l told them that
there were just two classes Of prison.
ers before me in that prison. The
lines are these:
1.-TWO men looked out over prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw the
stars"
And say to you in this audience to-
day that there are just two classes Of
men in this great theatre. There are
those who are looking out upon life,
looking down. living in touch with the
world. with the evil in it, with its i'm
purity. with its doubt. with its sin.
with its darkness. with those dread
things that steal into the souls of men
and drag them downward. And there
are those who look up in hope and who
keep their eyes upon Gods :ore, and
Gods might and Gods power, and
walk in the light Of freedom and vic
tory and power, who do not stand
Quivering at the thought Of the pitfalls
in the way. but realize that they are led
as truly by the Light from above as
were those wise men and those shep-