Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-03-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATH. RICHARD PIGGOTT THE FORGER. A WARNING TO YOUNG PEOPLE.  On Sunday night, at Orchard-place Chapel, the Rev. A. F. Mills delivered a most able discourse on the above subject. There was a large congregation. The rev, gentleman took his ' text from the 32nd chap. of Numbers, 22nd verse. • And be awe your sins will find you out." He spoke as follows- -To-night I will speak on one nun, whose name has been in every one's mouth all over the world, no matter where you went, this was the topic. Richard Piggott was an intelligent man who might have earned his living if he wished, but has been found a forger, , perjurer, knave, scoundrel, and murderer • but I am afraid I have a great deal of sympathy for the man. I believe I have sympathy for every man, and I am afraid I am like Robert Burns, who had sympathy for the devil himself. lam not going to curse the man. I should want to know the man's father and mother before I did that, as we inherit had passions from our parents. All passions are hereditary. It in only God who knows what we do inherit. I would say to parents, "What have you given to your child through your influence since it took its mother's milk it' You should begin at the breast if you want to train your children to counteract the animal passions that have been put into them. Firstly, there is the entanglement of sin, and secondly, living beyond our means. Richard Pigott might have been an honest man to-day hall ho sort lived beyond his means. In his youth he was honest, industrious, and patriotic. To-day, the most continued, brazen-fared seounthel the world ever produced. This is the contrast in two sentences that fill our newspapers. Sin begins with small lies, and you go on, awl go in. I believe that Pigott had a conscience up to the end, although lother men may differ. You can see how it is working up to the close of his career. He did not want his name to be revealed, fearing he • would be assassinated. Nonsense :it was his • conscience, and what is the lesson "Keep a pure conscience." "Sin is sure to reveal itself, and murder will out." was our old saying. The law of retribution works in this world, and will in the next. The safeguard of the world is in the moral goverrment of the Almighty, not in the : navy or our army or a religion that covers lies and deceit. That sin which comes out in . you gives trouble to everybody else. You will find it in Piggott's life. He tortured a great - many. Look how he tortured poor McQuire. : Whatever may be the colour of your politics, . you will may that he had tortured some of , the Irish party. You might say that a man • may be only his own enemy, but I say that is impossible. Young man, you are a drunkard, and • see how you break your mother's heart. Young L woman, think of your liberty, your virtue and L honour. Think of your brothers and sisters. : Another leasers which Piggott gives us is to live ; within your income. No doubt he spent more than he earned, and that was a great source of 7 evil. Piggott would have been a respectable I man had he lived within his means. Ido not rejoice at his untimely end, but there is a worse suicide than the suicide of the body, which he . must suffer, and that As to, the suicide of the 1 soul.