The southern argus., 1891-06-25
no YOUNG MEN.
Able Appeal to Young Men By Fey
T.DeWitt Talmage.
The wages of sin Ever Bad-Christ Always
Ready to Ree rive the Returning Prodi-
gall: Danger Of Delays
,spel Pardon.

In a late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. q.
Dewitt Talmage especially appealed to
Young men. His subject was The
Homesick Soul and his text was from
the parable Of the Prodigal Son"
Iuke xv. Is: II will arise and 60 to
nv father" DIR. Talmage said:
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out of man. A hungry man
can toll neither with pen nor hand nor
foot. There has been many an army
defeated not SO much for lack of ammu-
milton as for lack of bread. twas 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 traveller tells US
that in Asia Minor there are trees
like the long bean Of our time. 1t is
called the carab. Once in a while the
people reduced to destitutiOn would eat
these carabs, but generally the carabs,
the beans spoken Of here in the text,
were thrown only to the swine and
they crunched them with great avidity.
But this young man Of my text could
not even get them without stealing
them. So one day amid the swine
troughs he began to solilOquize. Tie
says: "These are no clothes for rich
mans son to wear; this is no kind of a
business for Jew to be engaged in
feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go
home; will arise and 20 to my father. I"
know there are great many people
who try to throw a fascination, ro-
nance, halo about sin; but notwith-
George Sand have said in regard to it,
it is mean, low, contemplate busi-
ness, and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of herd of iniquities that
root and wallow in the soul Of man is
very poor business for men and wo-
men intended to be sons and daughters
Of the Lord Almighty. And when this
young man resolved to 60 home it was
very wise thing for him to do, and
the only question is whether we will
follow him.
Satan promises large wages if we
will serve him; but he clothes his vic
Tins in rags, and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they start out to dc
better he sets after them all the blood
hounds Of perdition.
In the time Of Mary, the persecntor
a prosecutor came to a Christian wo
man who had hidden in her house fol
tie Lords sake one Of Christ's servants
and the prosecutor said: where j
that heretic?" The Christian woman
said: You open that trunk and yol
will see the hcretic." The persecuto
opened the trunk. and on the tol
of the linen Of the trunk h
saw glass. He said: There
no hereto here" "Ah," she said, ''yo
look in the glass and you will see tn
hereticr' AS ! take up the mirror {
Gods work to-day, would that instea
of seeing the prodigal son Of the tex
we might see ourselves-our want ou
wandering, our sin, our lost condition
SO that we might be as wise as thi
young man was and say: "A will aris
and 60 to my father"
The resolution of this text was forme
i'm disgust at his present circumstance:
If this young man had been by his en-
ployer set to culturing flowers, or trair
ing vines over an arbor, or keeping az
count of the pork market or overseein
other laborers, he would not hav
thought Of going home If he had ha
his pockets full Of money; if he ha
been able to say: II have thousan
dollars now Of my own; what's the us
Of my going back to my fathers house
Do you think am going back to apol'
gize to the old man?" All. it was h
beggary He had to 60 home.
Some man comes and says to M
"Why do you talk about the ruine
state Of the human soul? Why don't 70
speak about the progress of the nin'
teenth century, and talk of somethin
more exhilarating?" 1t is for tn
reason: A man never wants the gospt
until he realizes he is in q famine struc
state. Suppose | should come oyou
your home and you are in good, soun'
robust health, and | should begin
talk about medicines, and about no
much better this medicine than tha
and talk about this physician and tn;
physician After awhile you would g.
tired, and you would say: II don't wal
to hear about medicines. Why do yc
talk to me Of physicians? Inever hay
a Doctor But suppose ! come in
your house and find You severely sic
and | know the medicines that wi
cure you and know the physician WI
is sskillful enough to meet your cas-
You say: Bring on that medicin
bring on that physician ! am terrib
sick and | want help" If came
you and you feel you are all right
body, and all right in mind, and :
right in soal, you have need OF nothin
but suppose have persuaded you tn
the leprosy Of sin IS upon you, Y
worst Of all sickness, Q! then you sa
Bring me that balm Of the gosp'
bring me that divine medicamer
bring me Jesus Christ
But" says some one in the audient
show do you prove that we are in
ruined condition Of sin?" Well, | G
prove it in two ways and you may ha