The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-12-05
A Leaayilia Sermon.

ing from a tour 10 america, read us
sermon which he had taken down as Ii,
heard it il Ieadyii!e. The service wa!
in a variety iliea-er, some whisky barrels
made the pulpit. After the singing o
a days march nearer homc," hard
featured miner rose to address the hard
featured co:i.ra: alton:
| Friends, The REGULAR preacher has gone
down to-day among the boys who are
working the new carbonate mines at
Ganllis9n and have been appointed to
take lis hand and lieaa.e it for all it's
worth. T. many Of rou present it won't
ne necessary to tell .yn.i that I'm kinder
nafE % this business. bat don't believe
/ ihera's :. rooster in the camp mean
! eI'1g1..h to take tlia lt.santage OF my ig-
norance and tJl,i-dacIs me on the first
deal. have bsen reading in this yere
! DO ], that yaln ablat tie Frodigal Son
and will t.y and ttli you the story The
book don't give oates but guess it hap
pened 4 coni Ierahle spell baEs in his
tory. Il seems the Pfed's father was
pretty flush With stan1l.3, and a real good
sort into the bargain rs he always sheiled
o't freely wifn re XII strt1tE him for
! stake, and never 5lesed al the size of the
pile neither, 50 l,ng a4 the boy heayed in
hearty on tie ran j and generally be-
hased his-elf handssn. Bat By and by
ghp kid baeali Il get rpst!css and wanted
to r1.stle out The travel: 50 he got the ole
man to ante up III advance Of the death
racket and let him -. He 10 sooner
got his div: il his pocket than he shook
the ranch and spread himself to take in
some OF tlr fa"-}li' camps. Wal, accord
ing TO the book, he hal u way-np time at
frs and alung his ezJl around as if he
owned the best payin. lead within
thousand miles Of Denver. But, my
friends, this gam didn't last forever.
Hard lilci struck him at last, and the
Prod is found in one Of lis sober inter-
walls remarkipg in confidential way to
one ii his chlals: Il say, oM pard, I'm
busted clean down to the bedrock, and
tiieln's the cold-bioolad facts" The book
don't say- what the Prod went broke on,
but proi'ly he steered against some brace
game. B. that as it nay, however, he
Wa SO beautifully cleaned out that he
i.aln'ta Il tw0-bij piece LEFT to 90 and eat
on. In this condition be struck a ranch
belonging h in Old granger, who, taking
ply on the poor, busted Prod, cave him a
job OF iie!,iin.. hogs The ranger wasn't
a bad Old sample III q general way, brt
h. was inclined to be kill,ler mean on
the feed, and 50 il came sliat often the
Prod got 50 friehtt'llly sllarp-set for 4
meal lie had 10 go Wllacks in the hog
Trough. 1ou bet the kid who, in his
flush simes, had been i,oozing round
among the best Of everything like sill
yer king or a big railway lnonopoGst, had
now plenty oi time on his hands for
doing 4 tall lnt OF thinking. and one day
he said 10 himself s'iil Just ding this
business. Why, even tie meancst help
in my governors hired service are living
On square grub, and plenty Of it, while
i'nl Worrying slong here on shook
lunch. [ know What I'll do-I'll just
skip back home to the old man and ask
for a new deal So away he went, but
he had & hard time reaching the old
ranch, and don't you forget it. When
sou have plenty IF coin, my friends,
evcrylody's pleasant, bat whcp you're
on the borrow you don't find it 50 good.
Finallv lie did strike the familiar trail
leading down to the ol'! home and while
crnssins: some open l9..s the old man, as
the bool; puts it, saw him a-coming afar
OF. Yes, the Old mans eyes were very
dim, bat he did not fail to spot his boy
afar Of
And What dye suppose that Prod's
i;ltl}ar did: Did ;le whistle the dogs up
to chase himo OF the s;;lls.i, You bet he
di,in't. Did he 90 and take down his
shot--ssn aH'l wait till he got 4 coo,! drop
On him: T9a teT he didn't. So, bit
Ill til what he ,5iti. lie just waltzed
n, 1T 3j1t al. the CAT II meet him, and
fl n TO .ilai poor 4ar,e-crow right ON the
s.,o5. and fell { kissing of him and weep
~ over l,Pl ana calling him his poor,
i1ue-l;ssi boy until tie Prod cot broke all
up and Ike a siui"a dan when the snow
Genes down OH i'ike's Teak under
Il Ji.ly ss.n. The ol,l man tiltn took him
right away 10 4 clothing store and rigged
him c.s: in the 1ol,i.;est salt to be had
l1r coin and p,if an elegant ring on his
finger, ordered The .attst steer on the
ranch IL b., slaughtered. invited all the
neieillnors in and had the biggest blow
out that cam., had ever seen.
Now itappear@ the Pro'i'se!der brother
was al work nj!. the teams, and when
he came in he asked so1is. Of the help
what vas the meaning o. the picnic they
were having inside, and when he was
told the reason he just got real mad. The
old man hearing IF this went ont to him
and said: Come i'll, lad; your brothers
come back and we're having a regular
d-fasIlioned Jubilee; nov you come right
along, ikea good fellow, and take share
III the breakdown But the brother
wouldn't bll,ige, and said: "Look here,
dat! have stuck to the ranch and have |
1nver trallsgrgssed yorr orders, but it |
never strlig'k you to have Il picnic OF this
kind unil you give it in honor of a
loafer who has disgraccd our name"
B.it. II, friends, yor may make your
bets on it that the old man had level
head and wasn't easily bli,f!ed. He say
"My son, you 'say you have never trans |
gresse,i my orders, but are you quite sure
that's 50? ] sell you that you have
crleyeusly transaressed nv command
ntents By your unb0therly and uncharit-
able behavior Learn that | am not /
pleased by service Of mere form, if the !
heart is not in accord. You may econt |
that your service is according 10 the letter |
of the law, but tell you it don't fill the t
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