The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-07-02
AT THE TABERNACLE,
DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON VARIOUS
KINDS OF PRODIGALs.


BROOKLYN, June 81 DIR. Talmage's
sermon this morning was an appeal to
young men. Numbers of these come to
the Tabernacle services, many of them
from country homes, where they re-
ceived Christian training, which, in the
temptations Of city life, has been cast
of. DR.. Talmage called his scr non
''The Homeslck Soul" and his text was
from the parable OF the prodigal son,
Luke Nv, IS, ~ will arise and 90 to my
father"
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 de-
teated, not so much Tor lack OF ammuni-
ton as for lack of bread. 1t was that
TACT 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
Tor bread. a traveller tells us that in
Asia Minor there are trees which bear
irult looking very much like the long
bean Of our time. 1t is called the carab.
Once in while the people reduced to
dcstltution 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 with
on stealing them. SO one day amid the
SWINE troughs he begins TO soliloquize.
He says: "rhese are no clothes for q
rich mans son to wear; this is no kind
OF business for Jew to be engaged in
feeding swine; I'll go home, I'N 20
home; l will arise and 60 to my father"
know there are great many people
who try TO throw a fascination, q ro-
nance, halo about sin; but notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and
George Sand have said in gard to 1T it
is mean, low, contemplate business,
and putting food and fodder into the
troughs of Il herd of niquities that root
and wallow in the soul OF man is Il very
poor business for men and women in
tended 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 victims
with rags, and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they start out to do
better he sets after them all the blood
hounds of erditlon. Satan comes to us
today and he promises all luXures, all
emoluments If we will only serve him.
Liar, down with thee to the pit! "The
wages Of sin is DEATH" Oh, the young
man Of the text was Wise when he ut
tered the resolution, 81 will arise and 90
to my father"
In the time OF Mary the Prosecutor,
prosecutor came to Christion woman
who had hidden in her house for the
Lords sake one OF Christ's servants,
and the prosecutor said, "Where is that
heretlc?' The Christian woman said,
"You open that trunk, and you will see
the heretic." The prosecutor opened
the trunk, and en- the top of the linen of
the trunk he saw a glass. lie said,
"Therc is no hereto here" "Ah," she
said, ''you look in the glass, and you
will see the hcrctic!" AS take up the
mirror Of Gods word today would that
instead Of seeing the prodigal son of the
text we might sec Ourselves-our want,
our wandering, our sin, our lost condl-
tion-so that we might be as wise as
this young man was, and say, ~ will
arise and 60 to my father"
IN SORROW ONE LONGS FOR A FATHER.
The resolution of this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances.
If this young man had been by his en-
ploYer set to culturinS flowers or train
ing vines over an arbOr or keeping ac-
count Of the pork market or overseeing
other labOrors he would not have thought
of going home. If he had had his pock-
cts full OF money, If he had been able
to say, II have thousand dollars now
of my Owp; what's the use OF my going
back to my fathers house? do YOU think
| am going back to apologize to the old
man? why he would put me on tie linz
its; he would not have going on arouHd
the old place such conduct as | have
been engaged in; Iwon't 90 home; there
is no reason why | should go home; l
have plenty OF money, plenty of pleas
ant surroundings, why should [ go
home?" Ali! it was his paupcrism, it
was his hcegary. lie had to 60 home.
Some man comes and says to me:
''Why do you talk about the ruined state
Of the human soul? why don't you speak
about the progress of the Nineteenth
century, and talk of something more ex-
hilaratinn?" 1t is for this reason: n
man never wants the gospel until he
realizes he is in famine struck state.
Suppose l should come 70 you in YOUR
home and you arc in good, sousd, ro-
bust 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 physician. After a while YOU
get tired, and you would say: 81 don't
want to hear about medicines. Why do
you talk to me Of physicians? never
have DOCTOR"
But suppose /, come into your house
and l find you severely sick, aHd | know
the medicines that will cure you, and 1
know the physician who is skilful
enough to meet your case. You say:
"Brjng On that medicine; bring on that
physician. L am terribly sick, and |
want help" If I came to you and YOU
feel you arc all right in body, and all
right in mind, and all right in soul you