Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-22
"QUEER CHRISTIANS
r gEE sE L E-COEGRAT TULATORY
SELF-SATIS FLED AND SELF
wGRSHXPFUL MAN.
YOU I.>O NOT KNOW HOW TO SHAKE
HA NDS WITH A PRODIGAL.
nAND HIT WAS SANGRYAND WOULD
NOT GOIN."
DIR. rA1MAeR's SERMON, SUNDAY, AUG. 1s.

A TLANTA. GEOR GIA, August 12.-The
N Rev. T. DEWITT Talmage, DID, OF
BROOKLYN, is in t,..,is region. He has
spoken several times at sl'e great Piedmont
Chautauqua, and his public appearances
are attended by vast mutitndes every
where. Preaching from the text (Luke,
chapter xv, verse 2S), ''And he was angry,
and would not go in" he said:
SIS the elder son of the parab so un-
sympathetic and SO cold that he is not
worthy of recognition ?'' The fact is chat
we ministers pursue the younger son. Eor
can hear the Tapping of his rags in many
sermonic breeze, and the branching of the
pods for which he was an unsuccessful colf'
testant. / confess that for long time
was unable to train the camera obscura up
on the elder son Of the parable. I never
could get negative for a photograph
There was not enough light in the gallery.
or the chemicals were poor, or the sitter
moved in the picture. But now L think !
have him. Not side face. or a three-quar-
ters, or the mere bust, but full length
portrait as he appears to me. The father
in the parable of the prodigal had nothing
to brag of in his two sons. The ono was a
rake and the other churl. find nothing
admirable in the dissoluteness of the one,
and I find nothing attractive in the acrid
sobriety of the other. The one goes down
over the larboard side and the other goes
down over the starboard side; but they both
go down.
From the window of the old homestead
bursts the minstrelsy. The floor quakes
with the feet of the rustics, whose dance is
always vigorous and resounding The
neighbors have heard of the return of the
younger son from his wanderings, and they
have gathered together. The house is full
of congratulations. l suppose the tables are
loaded with Injuries. Not only the one
kind of meat mentioned, but its concomi-
tants. "Clap," go the cymbals, "thrump I"
go the harps, ''click % go the chalices, up
and down go the feet inside, while outside
is most sorry spectacle.
The senior son stands at the corner of the
house, frigid phlematic. He has Just
come in from the fields in very substantial
apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations
around the old mansion, he asks of ser
want passing by with a goatskin of wine on
his shoulder what all the fuss is about. One
would have thought that, on hearing that
his younger brother had got back, he would
have gone into the house and rejoiced, and
if he were not conscientiously opposed to
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