The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-08

this. What liz IL To lie saved. anyway
I've lived . dogs life. and In get
ting tired Of IL IL there - such -
God a. that preacher II telling about,
I'll find IL out II IL k1lls me 10 do H. s.
lie found IL out Towards midnight.
after hours OF broken prayers and
bitter remorxe over his wasted life.
Burke learned that there IL God
who Ia able and willing 90 blot out
the darkest and bIoodiest record.
Next morning when the guard
came around Burke had . pleasant
word for him. and the guard eyed him
in wonder When the sheriff came.
Burke greeted him IS q friend. and
told him how he had found God. af-
ter reading Moody's sermon. "Jin."
said the sheriff TO the guard. you'd
better keep an eye on Burke. He's
playing the pious dodge. and the first
chance he gets he viii be out OF
there" In a few weeks Burke came
TO trial. but the case failed and he
was released.
Friendless, and known only as
daring criminal, he had hard time
for months. Men looked at his face
when he asked for work, and upon
its evidence turned him away. But
Burke was as brave Christian as he
had been a burglar, and struggled
on. Seeing that his sin-blurred feat
ures were against him, he asked the
Lord eff He would make him a better
looking man, so that he could get an
honest job" Something or somebody
really answered the prayer. for Moo
iy said a year from that time, when
he met Burke he was as fine look
ing man as he knew.
Shifting to and fro, wanting much
to find steady work, Burke went to
New York, hoping far from his old
haunts to find honest labor. He did
not succeed, and came back to St.
Louis, much discouraged, but still
holding fast to God. One day there
came a message from the sheriff that
| he was wanted at the courthouse,
and Burke obeyed with heavy heart
Some old case they've got against
me-" he said; "but if I'm guilty I'll
tell them so; I've done with lying"
The sheriff greeted him kindly.
Where have you been, Burke?"
''In New York"
What have you been doing
! there?"
: Trying to find a decent job"
"Have you kept a good grip on the
religion you told me about?" in
quired the sheriff.
Yes answered Burke, looking
him steadily in the eye. I've had a
hard time, sheriff, but haven't lost
my religion
1t was then the tide began to turn.
Burke" said the sheriff, "I have
had you Swallowed every day you
were in New York. I suspected that
your religion was a fraud. But I
know you've lived an honest, Chris
tian life, and I have sent for you to
offer you a deputyship under me.
You can begin at once"
He began. Steadily the old burglar
went about his duties, until men
/
hats to him, and to talk of him at
their clubs. Moody was passing
through the city and stopped off to
meet Burke, who loved nobody as he
did the man through whom he was
converted. Moody found him in a
room in the courthouse serving as
guard over a bag Of diamonds. Burke
sat with the gems in his lap and a
gun on the table. There were s12,-
600 worth of diamonds in the sack
Moody" said he, "see what the
grace of God can do for a burglar
Look at this! The sheriff picked me
out to guard it," Then he cried like
a child as he held up the glittering
stones for Moody to see.
Years afterward the churches Of
st. Louis were waiting for the comins
of an evangelist; but something hap
pened and he did not come. One o.
the pastors suggested that Valentine