Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-22

at all. The only kind Of resolution tina
amounts 20 anything is the resolution that
/ is Immediately put into execution
There is man who had the typhoid
! fever lie said; "Ohl II | could get ovei
| this terrible distress' lf this fever should
/ depart, If could be restored 20 health,
would all the rest IT my life serve God
The fever departed He got we'll enough
to walk around the block He got wei
enough to 20 over TO New York and attend
to business He is we'll today-as well q.
he ever was Where Is the broken VOW
There is a man who said long ago, "lf
could live TO the year 1891, by that time
will have my business matters arranged
and will have time to attend to religion
and will be good, thorough. consecrated
Christian"
The year 1891 has come January, Feb
ruary, March, April May, June-almost
half of the year gone. Where is your
broken vowi oh" says some man: "Ill
attend to that when | can get my charac
ter fixed up When ! can get over my evil
habits am now given to strong drink, or,
says the man, 81 am givento uncleanness,
or, says the man, II am given to dishones
ty When get over my present habits,
then I'll be thorough Christian" My
brother, you will get worse and worse, un-
til Christ takes you in hand. Not the
righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call"
DANGER OF PRocRAsTINATIoN.
Obi but you say, 81 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 Goo and never entered itf ]
was at East Hampton and 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 a ship went into the breakers
at Amagansett, about three miles away
Ny brother, then preaching at East Hamp
ton, had been at the burial These men of
the crew came very near being saved
The people from Amagansett saw the
vessel, and they shot rockets, and they sent
ropes from the shore, and these poor fel-
lows got into the boat, and they pulled
nightly for the shore, but just before they
got to the shore the rope snapped and the
boat capsized and they were lost, their
bodies afterward washed up on the beach.
Oh what solemn day it was-I have
been told of it by my brother-when these
twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit
and he read over them the funeral servicel
They came very near shore-within shout
ing distance of the shore-yet did not ar
rive on solid land. There are some men
who come almost to the shore of Gods
mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be
only almost saved is not to be saved at all
will tell you of two prodigals, the one
that got back and the other that did not
get back. In Virginia there is a very pros
porous and beautiful home in many re-
spects A young man wandered Oft from
that home He wandered very far into sin
They heard of him often, but he was al
ways on the wrong track. He would not
go home. At the door of that beautiful
home one night there was n great outcry.
The young man of the house ran down and
opened the door to see what was the mat
ter. 1t was midnight. The rest of the
family were asleep There were the wife
and the children of this prodigal young
man Tie fact was he had come home and
driven them out. He said: "Out of this
house. Away with these children; | will
dash their brains out Out into the
stormp'
The mother gathered them up and fled,
The next morning the brother, the young
man who had stayed at home, went out to
find this prodigal brother and son, and he
came where he was, and saw the young
man wandering up and down in front of
the place where he had been staying, and
the young man who had kept his integrity
said to the older brother; "Here, what does
all this mean? What is the matter with
you? Why do you act in this wayp" The
prodigal looked at him and said "Who am
l2 Who do you take me to beY" He said,
"You are my brother" NO. am not; |
am brute. Have you seen anything of
my wife and childreng Are they dead2
drove them out last night in the storm.
am brute. John, do you think there is
any help for me2 Do you think | willever
get over this life of dissipation" He said,
Brother, there is just one thing that will
stop this" The prodigal ran his finger
across his throat and said "That will stop
it, and III stop it before night. Oh! my
brain; | can stand it no longer" That
prodigal never got home. But will tell
you of a prodigal that did get home.
TWO RAN AWAY, BUT ONE RETURNED.
In England two young men started from
their fathers house and went down to
Portsmouth. The father could not pursue
his children; for some reason he could not
leave home, and so he wrote a letter down
to Mr., Griffin, saying; 'Mr, Griffin, wish
you would go and see my two sons. They
have arrived in Portsmouth, and they are
going to take ship and going away from
home. | wish you would persuade them
back" Mr. Griffin went and he tried to
persuade them bSck. He persuaded one to
go. He went with very easy persuasion
because he was very homesick already
The other young man said; 81 will not go.
have had enough of home. I'll never go
home" "Well," said Mr. Griffin, "then II
you won't go home I'll get you respectable
position ON respectable ship" mo you
WON'T" said the prodigal; mo you won't.
| am going as common sailor; that will
plague my father most, and what will do
most TO tantalize and worry him will please
me best"
Years passed on, and Mr. Griffin was
seated in his study one day when mes
sage came to him that there was young
man in irons on a ship at the dock-a
young man condemned to death-who
wished to see this clergyman. Mr.. Griffin
went down 10 the dock and went ON ship
board, The young man said to him, "You
don't know me, do youW mo-" he said
III don't know you.n "Why, don't you TO
member that young man you tried topper
suade TO go homo, and he wouldn't goS
/ "Oh, yes said Mr. Griffin "Are you thai
manm "Yes, ! am that man." said thu
/ other. IL would like TO have you pray fo
me. have committed murder, and mus
| die, but | don't want TO go out Of thi
world until some one prays for me. YOl
are my fathers friend, aud would like Il
have you pray for me-"
Mr.. Griffin went from judicial authorit.
to judicial authority te get the younl
mans pardon. lie slept not night nor day
He went from influential person to inau
ential person until some way he got tha
young mans pardon. He came down o