The Red Cloud chief., 1889-02-08

Rev. T. De Witt Talmage took his text
from Luke ". .: ''Bring hithes the fatssd
calf and kill t." He said:
Joy! Joy Joy: We banquet to-day over
this accession Of Q multitude OF souls In
ali AGES of the world IL has been customary
to celebrate joyful events BY festivity-
the signing Of treaties the proclamation Of
peace, the Christmas. the marriage. How.
ever much on other days Of the year our
table may have stinted supply. on Thanks.
giving day there M be something boun.
tsoua And ali the comfortable homes oe
Christsndom have At some time celebrated
joyful events by banquet and festivity.
Something has happened in the old
homestead greater than any thing that has
ever happened before. A favorite son
whom the world supposed would become .
vaGabOnd and outlaw forever has got tired
OF sightseeing AMI has returned TO his
fathers house. The world said he never
would come back. Tn, old man always
said his son would come. lie bad been
looking for HIM dsy after day and year
after year H.. knew he would come back.
Now. having returned TO his fathers house,
the father proclaims celebration.
There is a calf IN Oh. pa idock that has
OCNh avn VIZ u bVh " bflt "a
SO ~ to be ready for some occasion Of JOY
that might come along. All: there never
will be q grnnder day on the old home
ste ad Than this day. Let the butchers do
their work AMI the housekeepers bring
OniOthe table the smoking meat. The mu-
sicians will take their place, and the gay
groups will move up and dow the fioor.
All the friends and n%eighbors aro gath
cred in. and extra supply IL sent out to
the table OF the . The father pre-
SIDES at the table. and says grace. aud
thanks God that his lons-abs-nt boy is
home again. o! how they missed him:
how glad they are to have him back. One
brother indeed stands p~ouiing at the back
door n says: This Is . great i atou
nothing: this bad boy should have been
chsstsned instead Of greeted: veal Is too
good for him." But the father says:
Nothing is too good; nothing 10 good
enough" There sits the young man. glad
at the hearty reception. but . shadow Of
sorrow fitting scrOss his brow Ut the
remembrance Of the trouble he has seen.
All ready now. Let the cover lift
Music. He was dead and he is alive again!
He was cost and he is found! BY such
bold imagery does the Bible set forth the
merrymaking when . soul comes hosDs 10
God.
F~irst-First Of oil there 10 the new cos-
vert's Joy. 1t is no tame thing To beco0s
. Christian. The most tremendous mo-
ment in = mans life is when he s~urrenders
himself IL God. The grandsst time on the
father's homestead il when the boy comes
back. Among the great throng Who in
the parlors Of this church professed Christ
u night was q young man who next
morning rang my door bell u said:
''Sir, ! can not contain myself with the
Joy l feel; I came here this morning To- eI-
press it. have found more joy in Eve
minutes in serving God than IN all the
years Of my p~rOdigality and l came To say
So"
You have seen, perhaps . man running
for his physical liberty ami the officers 81
the Law after him and YOU saw him escape
or after ard you heard the Governor
had psrdoned him and hOw great was the
glee Of that rescued man; but IL is n very
tame thing that, compared with the run
ming for ones everlasting life-ths t-rrors
Of the law after him, but Christ coming In
TO pardon and bless and rescue and save.
You remember John Bunyan in his great
story tells now the Pilgrim put his fingers
in his ears. and ran. cry ing: Life. life
eternal life!" A poor car-driver in this
city some years ago. after having had .
struggle to support his family. suddenly
was informed that a large Inheritance was
his. and there was joy amounting TO be-
wiiderment: but that 10 a small thing
compared with m. experience 81 one who
has put in his hands the title-deed 20 the
joys, the raptures, the ~splendors Of
Heaven. and he can truly say: Its man
sion. are mine, its temples are mime, its
songs are mine its Sod is mine"
q, il IL no tame thing to become .
Christian. II is a merry making. II Is
the killing Of the fatted calf. II IL jubilee.
You know the Bible never compares il to .
funeral. but always compares IL with
something bright II is more apt to BE-
compared u . banquet than any thing
else. 1t is compared in the Bible to the
water, bright flashing water; to the
morning. r~oseate, fre-w0ked. mountain
transfigured morning.
wish I could to-day take oil the Bible
expressions about pardon and psac. and
life and comfort and hope and Heaven,
and twist them into % garland and put
it ON the brow Of the humblest child Of
OI NvoO III tutS eubs I.
Nv ear il, wear il now. wear IL forever. son
Of God, daughter Of tbs Lord God Al
mighty" u, The JOY OF the new convert:
o., tho gladness of the Christian service.
You have seen sometimes . man la . r..
ligious assembly get up and give his e1-
periencs. Well, Paul gave his experience.
He arose in the presence Of two churches,
the church on earth and the church In
49,
perience: 'SorrOwful. vet always rsjoic.
ing: poor. yet making many rich; having
nothing, yet possessing all fhings." IL
the people in this house this morning knew
the Joys OF tbs Chr istian religion, they
would all pass over into the uni ION Of
God the next moment. When Daniel
Sandeman WAS dying OF cholera his ~.
tendsnt aid Have you much paint'
90" b. replied. "since ! found the Lord
I have nsver had any pain except is.'
Then they said 10 him: Would you like
TO send . message TO your friends" Yes,
would: tell them that only last night the
love Of Jesus came rushing into my sool
like the surges Of the ses, and ! bad 70 cry
out: stop. Lord, IL 10 enough; stop,
Lord, enough" ., the Joys Of this
Christian religion!
Just pess over from these tame joys In
which yoa ars induiging -toys Of this
woeld-inso the rsptures OF the Gospel.
The world csa not satisfy yos; yoa have
eoand that oat AIsxasdse loagisg fos
Other worlds TO conquer asd yea drowned
In bis own bottle. Bysoa whipped By dis-
Quissudes asessd The vosiA voltaiss esss-
ine his ovs 10 While oil Tie ssrsses d
Paris wsrs s~pp'asdiss hin Hsasy IL
eoosUni8G vita ha0sa aentass poss
nomas Q Bsckse-Al i~ilsstretioos Of tAs
tact that this world con noe 0Ake . maa
happy. To vssy 0aa who potsessd IL
po0mol of The saddle % whjeh Ousan