The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-16

And then tkss other parable about the
son which wa< lost be hAd gone sNsg
from hts fathers home He bad leff fzther.
mother. brother. home xad love- and had
s asrio,s a And wh h Sc has lost
every cent and has got down
70 feeding pix< and instead OF wearing
Ene clothes be Is covered with dirty rxzs.
and he began TO think i al over, md 90
want 70 20 back home, then the father
goes out 70 meet him and falls upon his
meek and veeFs for i9y beezuee his lost
boy has been found. and there Is great re-
ioicing in that house over the prodiEal
who i home again.
Lost means --out Of the way You are
out Of the way and God comes here 20 seek
y0u He wants 70 szye y0u- That's the
rexson He comes down from His high
throne in heaven 70 fad yCu-
This text seems 50 shine ont like Q bril-
Liant pearl from among cluster OF pre-
sjGfs stones.
In the 18th chapter OF Luke We read Of
Christ coming up toward Jericho ard there
Is q posr, blind beggar who can't see him.
cant see any body. let cs use cur irnax-
ination for little whiEe-take o birds
eye view Of this Ineident The poor bliad
man Bartimeus, Is begging By the wsyside-
ard a traveller passing by tells him be
could hare hts eyessght II be wants IT,
Now B8rfimegs has been blind from
his birth, and he asks the man
how he can ever be made 70
see, aud the man answers;
sswhy. was In Jerusalem last week, and
times be lives in CaperBzum and be Is hF-
ing now in GslfIee. Well saw him cure
blind man. He just srat and mixed some
clay with the spiftle and put Il on the blind
mans eyes and told him 70 go and wash in
the pool of SLOAN, and the mans eyes
or.a hos atr he Heb f1f IA
and the people and the houses" And Bar
timeas asks eagerly. How much did the
man have to PAY" The traveller replies, He
didn't have 70 pay anything" got his eye
sight and no doctors bill And Rartimeus
asks who Is the creates: prophet, what Is
his narnes" They call him jesus of Saz-
areth." answers the traveller why, q
man can come TO bin so full OF leprosy.
that he hadn't bit of clean skin LETT the
size Of a grain Of wheat. and be said 70 the
prophet Lord, II thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean and the leper was healed
right away.
And can imagine Jesus going toward
Jericho, and there was Bartimeus led out
by one Of his little children, or perhaps a
dog that he had trained to lead him, and
he Is crying out Have mercy upon mel
Have mercy upon me?
Il was perhaps enc cloGdless morning
like we had in Seattle to-day, and a great
procession of people was going into Jeri-
eho, and Bartimeus getting curious asks
somebody what il is all about and who is
the great man who Is coming, and they
tell him '.Jesus OF Nazareth passeth by" II
is the name OF the great prophet who had
healed the blind man in jerusalem Bar
timeus cries out Thou son OF David, have
mercy upon Inefi There were some who
thought that Jesus was on his way 20 be
crowned king, and il would not do 10 have
him stop for one poor blind beggar.
But Bartimeus cries ont all the
more. Thou son OF David, have mercy
upon meg' And the Lord Stops and says
TO him, Il viii; receive your sight, and,
Oh, the first object that met the sight of
that man, who had been blind from birth,
was the SON of David. He WIS what You
might call young convert, and he sang
"Hosanna to the Son of Davidr' There
were none who sang better and loader than
he. He could probably sing better than
the professor there at that time. Laugh
teri. / can imagine Bartimens going
home and seeing his mother for the first
time, going to see what his wife looked
like, and his children, Charley, John,
James, Henry, and Julian. On his
way down man looked at him in as
constituent, and cried out, why. Bar
timeus, is that you?" Eyes, it is me-"
"Well, thought it was, but how is 1t that
you are walking about the streets of Jerusa-
LEM" oh, / just called upon Jesus of
NdSdfttu, anu ne HaU mercy On me. duu
gave me my sight. He's at Jericho now.
Thus did Mr.. Moody continue in his
quaint way 10 present the tale of Gods
love until after 9 O'Clock Want of space
viii not permit the publication of the full
text of the remainder of his talk. In sub
stance IL was an application of the story of
Zaecheus climbing the sycamore tree to
see Christ; u ccndemp ation of the Pharf-
isees who In that day objected TO the
Savior going with publicans aud sinners,
and whose posterity make the same OBJ
lection to-day: an assertion that il Christ
were upon ca tn to day he would be found
among the sinful and unclean to bring
them TO repentance and to heal and re-
deem them: pathetic description of
Moody's preaching at the Tombs and the
conversion of one poor penitent prisoner,
and as equally pathetic story of the York
shire farmer-preacher. Daweett, bringing a
disinherited aud debauched youth of
London 10 salvation. The father was
brought by Daweett 10 his dying son up IL
dirty garnet 10 forgive his boy and to Sc
him die happy in the knowledge that bot n
God and his earthly father had pardoned
him. The portrayal OF this scene was the
climax of graphic eloquence.
The meeting closed with prayer by Mr..
Moody and Rev. Clark ID. Davis and sing
ing. An inquiry meeting was held sub
sequently in the First Methodist Pfotes-
tant church.