Telegram-herald., 1890-06-16

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should start hsAyens ards ! pray yea
Insy-yoar tatber would n9t sig Idly dosn
slld allow yoa O. struggle OF uP toward
ktm. Oh, nci seeing you gross way n
he would iiy 70 tbe rescue h0g lo1g 4oeS
i. tzke father - le4p IuIo the i-lddis II
gLe highway 4 his child be there aid a
swift vehicle Is coming ard may destroy
hin! Five hundred times longer than Il
taxes ogT heasenly Father 10 sLriDg - tie
dsliveraDce II = lost child 'When lie waS
: great ~ 0n as father saw hlla-
HE HAsTESED 70 GREET HfN.
And tAiS bgiags ne 10 notice tie TAI hers
haste Tie Bible says Le ran Nc wonder
Tie Ctii D0t knOw but that the young EAzn
would change his mind and - b2cA- lie
eid not know bat thEt be wOaid drop down
from exhaustion. de did not kno" but
that something fatal might ove-sake him
before bs got up - The coorSiIl, and 80 the
father ran The Bible. for tie most part,
sreaks OF God - walking In tie fourth
watch or the night" IL says, Jesus came
unto them walking on the sea. lie
wslketh upon tie HInSs or ,he wind. ~
Our first parents heard the v0lce II the
Lord, walking in the garden il the cool Of
TIE day; bat when sinner starts out for
God the father runs 10 meet him. OH II
a man ever wants help II Is when lie tries
% becoue a Christian. The world says -
HIM: Back with you. Have more spirit.
Don't be hampsred with religion. Time
enough yet WAN until you got sick Wait
until You get old. % Satan says Back
with YOU, you are 30 bad that God wall
have nothing 10 do with YOU" or, You
are good enough and need 40 Hedoener.
Take thine esse, eat, drink and be merry
Ten thousand voices say: Back with you.
God Is a hard master The church Is a col
lection Of hypocrites. Back into your sins,
back 70 your evil indulgences, bsck % your
a young man ever does Is 10 come home AZ
ter he has been wandering" Oh, how
much help a man does want when he tries
10 become Christian! Indeed the prodi-
gal cannot find his way homo TO his fa-
theirs house alone. Unless some one comes
10 meet him he had better have stayed by
the swine trOughs.
When the tide comes in you might moro
10 xrrtfb uo1r krocr.1 au-geF, haek
surges than you could drive back the ocean
Of your unforgiven transgTeesions What
IRE we to do? Are we 10 fight the battle
alone, and trudge on with no one 70 aid us,
and no rock 10 shelter Us, and 10 word of
encouragement 10 cheer uss Glory DO TO
God, we have in the text the announcement:
"When he was yet great wsy off his IA
thcr ran. When the sinner starts for Cod
God starts for the sinner God does not
come out with a slow and hesitating pace
The Infinite spaces slip beneath his feet and
BE- takes worlds a. a bound The father
I2n" Oh, wonderful meeting, when God
( and the soul come together. The father
ran" You start for God and God starts
FOR you, and you meet; and while the
angels rejoice over the meeting your long
injured father falls upon your neck with
attestations of compassion and pardon.
Your poor, wandering, sinful, polluted
soul, and the loving, the eternal Father,
have met.
TIE FATHERS KISS.
/ / remark upon the fathers kiss. "He
fell on his neck" my text SAYS, land
Kissed him" IL is not every father that
would have done that way. Some would
have scolded him, and said: Here, you
went off with beautiful clothes, but cow
you ere all Ia tatters- You went OF
healthy, and como back sick and waste.
with your dissipations." lie did not say
that. The son, all haggard and ragged
and filthy and wretchcd, stood before his
father The father charged him with mono
of his wanderings. lie just received him.
He just kissed him. His wretchcdness was
a recommendation 20 that fathers love
Oh. that fathers kissl How shall l de
scribe the love Of Go1f-thc G-dor with
which be receives q sinner back again.
Give me q plummet with which / may
fathom this sea. Give ne a ladder with
which con scale this height Give me
words with which can describe this love.
The apostles say IN one place, "unsearch-
able" in another, past finding out -
Height overtopping all height, depth
plunGng beneath al depth; breadth com
passing all immensity.
Oh. this love, God 20 loved the world
be loves you. Don't you b1iievc it Has
he not done everything % make you think
sof he Las given you iise, health, friends.
home-t1c use Il your hand. the sight II
your eye, the hearing q your esr. He las
strcvvn your path with ueTcies. He has
fed you. clothed you, sheltered you, de-
Tended you loved you, importuned you ali
your life long Don't you believe he loves
vouf Why If now you should start up
from the wilderness OF your sln be would
throw both arms around you- To make
YOU believe that he loves you h STOPPED
10 maBRer and cross aRd sepulchrc. With
ali tie passions q his holy nature roused
he stands before you today. and would coax
You q happiness and heaven. Oh. this "a
ther'skiss There Is 40 u-b meaning and
love and com passion in it; 50 much par
fon i0 it. - much heaven In g. ] pro
claim h-m tie Lord God, r1crCifui, gra-
cious a1d long suffering, ahgni- nt ia
c7,dpess End truth Lest go would not
believe him be goes NJ Golgothn, AID
while the roczs are reBding. and The graves
arc opening. and she HO5s sre bowling.
and the son is hiding. he dies foT you See
hil See him o. the Mount ~ Crucilxion.
the sweat m his brow tincrd With the
blood xuiing from his lacerated teEnPiesi
Ses his eycs swimming in death TIssr
~ loud broatsing x the SUI ezer ~ he
rarts with = vorli on his hesr4i Hsrk -
49, "a. of the hsoeS from brow and hand
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d-oDt Gr-p Look az Tho nalsf How vils
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