The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-22
TALMAGE TO YOUNG MEN.
"THH HoME.sIcK SOUL" TIE TITLE
OF BIS SERMON.

the Young Man Home-Ruiaed by
Sin.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, June 2I.-Dr. Tai
mage's sermon this morning was an appeal
to young men. Numbers Of these come II
the Tabernacle services, many of them from
country homes, where they received Chris
tian training, which, In the temptations q
city life has been cast off. DIR. Talmkgs
called his sermon Tho Home-Sick SouP
and his text was from the Parable Of the
Prodigal Son. Luke xv., Is, II will ariss
and go to my father"
There is nothing like hunger to take the
energy out Of a man. A hungry man can
toll neither with pen nor hand nor foot.
There hos beon many an army defeated not
SO much for lack OF ammunition as for lack
OF bread. 1t was that fact that took the
fire out OF this young man OF the text
Storm and exposure will wear out any
mans life In time, but hunger makes quick
work. The most awful cry ever heard on
earth is the cry for bread. A travelel
tells US that in Asia Minor there
are trees which bear fruit looking
very much like the long bean OF our time,
Il IL called the carab. Once In While
the people reduced to destitubion would eat
beans spoken Of here in the text, were
thrown only TO the swine and they crunched
them with great avidity. But this Joung
man OF my text could not even get them
without stealing them. SO one day amid
the swine troughs he begins to soliloquize.
He says: These are no clothes for rich
mans son 10 wear; this is no kind Of busi-
ness for a Jew to be engaged in-feeding
swine; III 60 home. III go home; win
arise and 60 TO my father"
1 know there are great many people
who try to throw O fascination, romances
o halo about sin; but notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have
said In regard to ID IL is a mean, low, COM
temptible business and putting food and
fodder into the troughs Of a herd Of iniqui-
ties that root and wnllow in the soui Of man
is very poor business for men and women
intended to be sons and daughters Of the
Lord Almighty. And when this young
man resolved TO 20 home 1t was o
very wise thing for him to
do. and the only question Is whether
we viii follow him. Satan promises
large wages IL we will serve him; but he
clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches
them with hunger, and whom they start out
TO do better he sets after them all the blood.
hounds Of perdition. Satan comes to US to-
day and he promises all luxuries, all eKnolu-
ments II we will only serve him. Liar
down with thee to the pitl THE wages OF
sin ia DEATH Oh the young man OF the
text was wise when ho uttered the resolu.
ton: II will arise and 20 to my father"
In the time of Mary, the prosecutor. O
prosecutor came to a Christian woman who
had hidden In her house for the Lords sake
one OF Chriss's servants, and the perse-
cutor said "Where is that hereto I" The
Christian woman said "You open that
trunk and you will see the heretio." The
prosecutor opened the trunk, and on the top
Of the linen of the trunk no saw glass.
He said "There is no hereto here.h
"Ah," she said, ''you look in the glass and
you will see the hereto !" As l take up the
mirror Of Gods word to-day, would that
instead Of seeing the prodigsl son OF the
text, we might see ourselves-our want,
our wandering, our sin. our lost condition,
so that we might be as wise as this young
man was and say: II will arise and go &C
my father"
The resolution Of this text was formed in
disgust at his preieut circumstances. II
this young man had boen by his employer
set to culturing flowers, or training vines
over an arbor. or Keeping account Of the
pork market, or overseeing other laboreTs,
he would not have thought Of going home.
II he had had his pockets full OF money, il
he had been able to say, II have thousand
dollars now OF my own; what's the use OF
my going back TO my fathers houses do
! you think am going back to apologize TO
| the old mani why, he would put me on the
the old place such conduct as have been
| engaged ia; won't go home; there u no
| reason why should 60 home; have plenty
| Of money, plenty Of pleasant surroundings
| why should / go homer Ahl 1t was his
pauperism, it was his bsggary. he had to
| go home.
Some man comes and says to me; ''why
| do you talk about tho ruined state Of the
human souli why don't you speak about the
progress of the nineteenth century, and talk
| Of something more exhilaratingT II is for
| this reason; a man never wants the gospel
until he realizes he is in famine struck
| state. Suppose / should come to you in
| your home and you are in good, sound.
| robust health, and / should begin to talk
| about medicines, and about how much
better this medicine is than that, and some
| other medicine than some other medicine.
| and talk about this physician and that phy-
| scan. AFTER awhile you would get
| tired, and you would say: II don't
want to hear about medicines. Why
do you talk TO me OF physiciansa Inever
have doctor.n But suppose | come intg
your house and find you severely sick, ans
know the medicines that will cure you.
and know the physician who is skillfuI
enough to meet your case. You say: Bring
on that physician. i am terribly sick, and
want help" II came 10 you and you
feel you are all right In body and ell right
| IN InlnQ, anu Ilk0b III oOui, yOu law
need of nothing; but suppose have per-
suaded you that the leprosy OF sin Is upon
| you, the worst of all sickness, o, then you
| say: "Bring me that balm Of the gospel,
bring me that divine medicament, bring me
Jesus Christ"
But says some one in the audience, "how
do you prove that we are in a ruined condi-
ton by sinYn Well, can prove it In two
ways, and you may have your onoice.
can prove IL either by the statements OF
men, or by the statement OF God. Which
shall il bel You all say, "let US have the
statement of Godn Well. he says in one
place; "the heart is deceitful above all
thingsiand desperately wicked" He says
in another place: "what Is man that be
should be cleana and he which is born of
woman that he should be righteousgn He
| SAYS in another place: "there is none that
| doeth good no, not one.n He says in an
| other place: "as by one man sin entered into
the world, and death by sin; and so death
| passed upon all men, for that all have
| siuued.n "Well." you say, II am viii.
| ling TO acknowledge that, but why should
take the particular rescue that you pro-
| poseg' This is the reason: Except man
be born again he cannot see the kingdom OF
God.n This is the reason. There is one
| name given under heaven among men
whereby they may be saved" Then there
are thousand voices here ready to say
"Well, am ready to accept this help of the
| gospel; / would like to have this divine
| cure; how shall / go to workP Let me say