The Effect of Crime Upon Conscience

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 30, 1879

The Effect of Crime Upon Conscience

THE effect of crime upon the conscience has just been awfully illustrated in England by the experiences of Jonathan Geydon. Twenty years ago, when a young man of twenty-two, he murdered an old lady named Mary White, and robbed the house in which she lived. From that time until last month he was never heard of, but now he has given himself up and confessed the crime. For twenty years he has wandered about England a fugitive—the curse of Cain upon him, never able to settle to any steady work, ever haunted with the terrible remembrance of his fearful sin. On being locked up he inquired whether his parents were still living, and on learning that both were dead—they had died of grief—he burst into tears.