The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-24
Gypsy SMITH
sTlRs UNION
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ing weeds that you shall have to gath
er with bleeding hands and torn feet
because Of your own fioundering folly.
And it will be no use to look over the
field when it is toe late and say, "My
God, I never meant all this" But
that is your work and you will have
To gather it You will have to reap
what you have sown. What shall the
harvest BET
First, an impaired will. Slavery of
any sort is bad enough, but to be in
The bondage of your own will, and to
We held captive by your own passions
and weaknesses, this is indescribably
sad. This makes the strong weak, the
rood evil, the rich poor, and the poor
it crushes down to complete despair.
Second, it casts a shadow upon 9TH
ers. Here are I'VE acts in a sin trag-
Hdy which should be kept in mind.
First: Picture a youth man leav-
ing home, his mothers arms about his
leck, her kisses upon his cheek. Hi,
fatker with strained look upon his
ounterance, takes him by the hand
aging, Come, son, it is time to GO"
And they are travelling to the depot
and he is going away for the frs, time
- make his way in the world.
Second picture: He has been un.
Usually suo cessful. Barriers have dis
appeared before him, and success has
-ume to him almost in the first Of his
ife in the great city. And his parents
tell the story with thinning faces.
Third picture: We hear the sound
Of marriage bells, because he stands
~ the side of young girl whom he
Las asked to share his fortunes. They
are at the altar Of the church, and in
the sound Of sweet music they are
made husband ana wife.
Fourth picture: A home Of wretch
dness and despair, for in an unguard-
d moment he yielded to temptation
The demon of his nature was aroused
He forcets his Old parents. his loyal
wife and little baby.
Fifth: Three graves the grave Of
. man who sowed the wind and reap
Cd the whirlwind; the grave of a wo-
man who died when she should have
aeen in the first flush of happiness;
the grave of a little baby who died for
ack of nourishment.
The first crop you reap from sin
an impaired will; the second, mis-
cry for others; the third, wretched-
hess for ones self, which is indescrib-
ably awful. And all sin will bring
ms.
Never was n truer word spoken
tnan this, whatsoever a man soweth
that shall be also reap" But there is
q way of escape, and only one, and it
stretches out from just where you are
this evening. II you attempt to travel
along the road of your own choosing
you will find it mcst difficult. If you
say I am determined to reform, if
you have decided that from now you
W II lead better life, two things will
confront you:
First, what about the o,d life. Sec
cnd, who is going to help you lead a
rev life. If you will repent; that is,
TO be sorry for sir, that you will leave
t alone, if you will accept Christ and
obey Him and confess Him, God will
take the penalty of the broken law,
AID He will turn aside the teaching
this text so that its crushing blow
ioes not fall upon you.
In New York City several years ago
there was young married society
Girl, who, becoming infatuated with
her chauffeur, ran away. After a
while her husband secured a divorce
and she married her former chauffeur
md then after while she found out
what an awful mistake she had made
She found that she was tied to a fel-
low who was not educated who
couldn't understand the things she was
Interested in, and they had nothing
n common save a common passion.
Her social circle was closed against
her, and she realized that all she had
in life was killed because of her
associations with this fellow. She |
acc ded to take her own life, and left
II letter to her former husband which
was as follows: "You and I were
feedless and cynical through living in
this reckless city Of New York. We
may laugh at the old things like law
and religion when they say "Thou
shalt not" We may think that was
written for old fogies. Also we may
Gneer at the Wages of sin is death
nut Fred, there comes to all Of us
ONE time the knowledge that law and
rel gion are right. What they say we
shall not do, we cannot do without
;uiferiDg. have learned that the
wages of sin is death"-it is worse,
It is hci on earth"
If you reap harvest here, what of
:he hereafter?
Five minutes after l die,
Faces VIII sigh DER my silent face,
Dear ones will clasp me in loving en-