The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-07-17

away; we don't want you TO go; you
will have il a great deal better here"
But it made him angry. The night be-
fore he went away agoin to sea, he
heard his mother praying In the next
room, and that made him more angry.
He went far out on the sea and
storm. came up, and he was ordered to
very perilous duty, and he ran up the
ratliles, and amid the shrouds of the
ship he heard the voice that he had
heard in the next room. He tried to
whistle il off, he tried to rally his cour-
age: but he could not silence that voice
he had heard in the next room, and
there in storm and the darkness, he
said 80, Lord. what wretch have
been; what a wretch | am. Help me
just now. Lord God" And | thought
in this assemblage to-day there may be
some who may have the memory of
fathers petition or a mothers prayer
pressing upon the soul, and that this
hour they may make the same solution
| find in my text, saying: 81 will arise
and go to my father"
A lad at Liverpool went out TO bathe.
went out into the sea, went out too far.
got beyond his depth, and he foated
far away. A ship bound for Dublin
came along and took him on board. Sail
ors are generally very generous fellows
and one gave him acap, and another gave
him IA jacket, and another gave him
shoes. A gentleman passing along on
the beach at Liverpool found the lads
clothes and took them home, and the
father was heartbrol1en, and the
mother was heartbroken at the loss of
their child. They had heard nothing
from him day after day, and they order.
ed the usual mourning for the sad
event But the lad took ship from Dub
lin and arrived in Liverpool the very
day the garments arrived He knocked
at the door, and the father was over
joyed, and the mother was overjoyed at
the return of their lost son. o! my
friends, have you waded out too deep?
Have you waded down into sin? Have
you wadcd from the shore? viii You
come back? When You come back will
you come in the rags of your sin, or will
you come robed in the Saviours right
eousness? / believe the latter Go home
to your God to-day. He is waiting for
you. Go home!
But | remark concerning this reSolu-
ton, it was Immediately put into exc
cution. The context says he arose
and came to his family The trouble
in nine hundred and ninety -ninc times
out of a thousand is that our resolutions
amount to nothing because we make
them for some distant time. If | re-
solve 10 become a Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing at all If
resolve to become a Christian to-mor-
row, that amounts to nothing at all. If
resolve at the service tonight to be-
come a Christian, that amounts to moth
ing at all If | resolve after go home
to-day TO yield my heart to God, that
amounts to nothing at all The only
kind of resolution that amounts to any
thing Is the resolution that is imme-
diately put into execution.
There is man who had the typhoid
fever. He said: "Oh, if ! could get
over this terrible distress, If this fever
should depart, if l could be restored to
health. | would all the rest of my life
serve God" The fever departed. lilo
got well enough to walk around the
block. He got well enough to go over
to New York and attend To business
lie is well to-day--as well as he ever
was, Where is the broken vow? There
is a man who said, long ago: IF
could live 10 the year 1891, by that time
| will have my business matters ar
ranged and ] will have time to attend
to religion, and ! will be good, /
thorough, consecrated Christian" The
year 1891 has come. January, Febru.
airy, March, April, May, June-almost
half of the year gone. Where is your
broken VOW? 60" says some man,
IN attend to that when ! get my char.
acter fixed up; when ! can get over my
evil habits; am now given to strong
drink. Or, says the man, 81 am given
TO uncicanliness;" or, says the man, IT
am given to dishonesty. When / get |
over my present habits, then I'll be a !
thorough Christian"
My brother, you will get worse and |
worse until Christ takes you in hand. |
Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus came |
to call"
o! but you say: II agree with you on |
all that but must put it off little |
longer" Do you know there were |
many who came just as near as you are
To the kingdom of God and never en- |
tered IL? Twas at East Hampton and |
l went into the cemetery To look
around, and in that cemetery
there are twelve graves side by |
side-the graves of sailors This crew.
some years ago, in ship went into the
breakers at Amagansett, about three
miles away. My bother, thea preach.
ing at East Hampton, had been AT the