Connecticut western news., 1891-06-24


 lines, and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that he had heard in the next room He tried to whistle it of, he tried to rally his courage, but he could not silence that voice he had heard in the next room, and there in the storm and the darkness he said: 70, Lordl what wretch have been; what a wretch 1 am. Help me just now, Lord God" And thought in this assemblage today there may be some who may have the memory of fathers petition or mothers prayer pressing nightly upon the soul, and that this hour they may make the same resolution 1 find in my text, saying. '1 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 loated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board Sailors are generally very generous fel, lows, and one gave him cap and an other gave him 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 heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him, day after day, and they or dered the usual mourning for the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the garments arrived. He knocked at the door, and the father was overjoyed, and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh,, my friends, have you waded out too deep2 Have you waded down into sin2 Have you waded from the shore2 Will you come backG When you come back will you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed in the Saviour's righteousness9 be- lieve the latter. Go home to your God today. He is waiting for you. Go homel
 TRUE REPENTANCE AND ODDLY REso-
 LUTON ....
 But remark concerning this resolu ton, it was immediately put into execu- ton. The context says, He arose and came to his father" The trouble in nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some distant time. If re solve to become Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all. If resolve to become Christian tomorrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If resolve at the service tonight to become Christian, that amounts to nothing at all If I resolve after go home today to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of resolution that amounts to anything is the resolution that is immediately put into execution. ....Fs- at
 There is man who had the typhoid fever. He said, "Oh, if could gel over this terrible distress, if this fever should depart, if I could be restored to health, I would all the rest of my life serve Godl' The fever departed. He got we'll enough to walk around the block. He got we'll enough to go owe, to New York and attend to business. He is we'll today, as well as he eve, was. Where is the broken vow7 There is man who said long ago, "If could live to the year 1891, by that time will have my business matters arranged, and I will have time to attend to reli. zion, and I will be a good, thorough, .consecrated Christian" r:.,
 The year 1891 has come. January, February, March, April, May, June almost half of the year gone Where is your broken vow2 "Oh, says some man, "I'u attend to that when l can get my character fixed up; when ear get over my evil habits; I am nowgiveu to strong drink, or says the man, q am given to uncleanness, or says the man, ''I am given to dishonesty. Wher get over my present habits, then I'll be thorough Christian" My brother you will get worse and worse, unti , Christ takes you in hand. ''Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call.
 Ohl but you say, II agree with you on all that, but [ must put it of z little longer Do you know there wert many who came just as near as you arr to the Kingdom of God and never en tered it9 was at East Hampton anc Iwent into the cemetery to look around and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by side-the graves of sail ors. This crew, some years ago, in ship went into the breakers at Amag ansett, about three miles away. My brother, then preaching at East Hamp ton, had been at the, burial. Thest men of the crew came very near being saved.
 The people from Amagansett saw tht vessel, and they shot rockets and thej sent ropes from the shore, and thes' poor fellows got into the boat and they pulled nightly for the shore, but jus before they got to the shore the rop' snapped and the boat capsized ant they were lost, their bodies afterwart
 washed up on the beach. Ohl what 1 solemn day it was-I have been told o
 it by my brother--when these twelv' men lay at the foot of the pulpit ant
 he read over them the funeral service
 They came very near shore-withil
 shouting distance of the shore, yet di'
 not arrive on solid land. There ar
 some men who come almost to tn
 shore of Gods mercy, but not quite
 not quite. To be only almost saved not to be saved at all.
 ONE WHO WAS NOT SAVED.
 Twill tell you of two. prodigals, tn one that got back and the one that di
 not get back In Virginia, there is
 very prosperous and beautiful home 1