Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1911 — Power of Conscience. [ARTICLE]

Power of Conscience.

It is doubtful -if many of the thing* men regret are done only after a battle with conscience. Conscience is strong. When awake it lays a restraining hand upon the shoulder of the wayward impulse and pulls back as no other force in the world. It is very difficult to trample upon an awakened conscience. And those who do it probably wipe away that conviction upon which the restraining influence of conscience is based. They knew the prick of conscience less keenly than any others.

It seems more often to be the part of conscience to awake to a realization of the situation after all is done and then remain like the magic word "Tlconderoga," both through sleep and waking hoars. Judging from the activities around us, the average man would reach the conclusion that the errors which men most regret are committed when they least realise what is happening. Most of the mistakes are made with a blithe thoughtlessness which does not even hint at the possibility of the remorse to come.

Probably If the world could have Its boon it would wish for few things better than that conscience should make cowards of us all rather th»n persisting in its cowardly attack from the rear.—San Antonio Express.