Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-22
THE PR0DIGAL son.
RsV. DR.. TALNAGES SERMON AT TEE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Ths Eminent Divine breaches One Of lis Charm
iag Discoursas On Popular Subject.
Ia Treats the PNigal II
g New Manner.


peal 10 young men. Numbers Of these
come to the Tabernacle services, many
of them from country homes, where
they received Christian training, which,
IN the temptations of city life has been
cast of. DR.. Talmege called his sermon
The HOme-sick Soul, and his text was
from the Parable Of the Pr0digal Son,
Luke Is: IS ~ viii arise ana 90 70 my
father"
There is nothing like hunger 20 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 am
munition as for lack of bread. Ii was
that fact that took the fire out of this
young man of the text. Storm and eX-
posture will wear oU- 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
as that in Asia Minor there are
trees which bear fruit looking very
much like the long bean of 0ur
time. IL IS called the carab. Once In
while the people reduced 90 destitu-
zion would cot these caTa0S, but gener-
ally the carabs, the beans spoken of
here In the text, were thrown only 20
the swine, and they crunched them with
great avidity. But this young man of
nv text could not even get them with
out stealing them. So one day amid
the swine troughs he begins 70 soliio-
ouise. He says, ''TheSe are no clothes
Tor rich mans son TO wear; this is no
kind OF business for Jew 10 be en-
4 -fr,fa
I'll 30 home; I Will arise and go 10 my
father
know there are q great many people
who try 70 throw fascination, ro-
nance, a halo about sin; but notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and
George sand have said IN regard to IT,,
10 is a mean, low, contemplate busi-
ness. and putting food ana fodder INFO
the trOughs of a herd OF inlQuities that
root aud WailOw I'm the soul OF man Is a
very poor business for men and women
intended 10 be sons and daughters OF
the Lord Almighty. Aud when this
young man resolved TO 90 home, 10 was
a very wise thing for him to 90, and
the only question is whether we viii
follow him. Satan promises large
wages il we will serve him; but be
clothes his victims with rags, and he
DinCheS them with hunger, and when
they start out TO do better he sets after
them all the blood hounds Of perditlOn.
Satan comes TO Us to-day and he prom
ises all Injuries, all emOlumeutS II we
will only serve him. Liar, down with
thee to the pit, '"rhe wages Of sin is
death" O. the young man Of the text
was wise when he uttered tine reS0.u-
lion: Il viii arise and 90 to my father.
In the time of Mary, the prosecutor,
o prosecutor came % a Christian woman
Who had hidden In her house for the
Lords sake one OF Chris.'S servants,
and the prosecutor said: "Where IS
that heretic?" The Christian woman
said: You open that trunk and you
will see the heretic.' The prosecutor
opened the trunk, and on the top OF the
linen be saw saw q glass. BE said:
"There is no hereto here. "Ah, She
said, you look in the glass and you
will see the hereto" AS / take up the
mirror Of Gods word to-day, would
that instead of seeing the prodigal son
of the text, We might see ourselves
our want, our wandering. our sin, our
lost cOnditiOn-sO that we might be as
wise as this young man was and say:
81 Will arise and 20 TO my father"
NE HAD TO GO HOME.
The resolution Of this text was
formed in disgust Pc his present circum-
stances. fills young Hau had been
by his employer set 20 culturing h0w-
ers. or training vines over an arOOr, or
Keeping account of the pork market, or
overseeing other laborerS, he would nog
have thought of going home. II he
had had his pockets full OF money. il be
had been able 20 say, Il have q
thousand dollars now of my own;
what's the use OF my going back 20 NY
fathers houseH DO you think / am co.
ing back TO apologize % the old mau?
why he would put nae on the limits; he
would not have going on around the old
place such conduct as l have been eu-
gaced in; I won't go home; there is no
reason why should 20 home; ! have
plenty of money, plenty of pleasant
surroundings, why should l 60 nome? -
All. it was his pauperiSm, il was hi-
beggary. He had 10 so home.
Some man comes and says 20 me-
"Nhy do son talk about hcru.nod state
OF the human seal? Why don't you
speak about the progress of the MAE
teenth century, and talk of something
more exhilaratng2' III IS for this yea
son: mau never wants the GoSpe
until he realizes he is in famine-StruoB
state Suppose ! should come TO YOU IN
your home and you are ia good, sound
robust health, and should begin 20 talk
about medicines, and about how much
better this medicine is chan that, and
some other medicine, and talk about thi,
physician and that physician. After
while you would get tired, and you would
say: ~ don't want TO hear about med.
icineS. Why DO you talk TO nae of ply
SiciansY l never have Doctor" Blu
suppose | come into your house and
find YOU severely sick, and l know th,
medicines that will cure you, and
know the physician who is SNllfu
enough TO meet your ease. You say
"Bring on that medicine, bring on thai
physician. l am terribly sick and I wan
help" If ] come 90 you and you fee
you are al right in body and an right II
mind, aud all right ia SOUL you hay,
need Of nothing; but suppose hav,
persuaded you that the leprosy of sin Is
upon you, the worst of all sickness O
then you say: Bring me that balm O
the Gospel bring me that divine medic
ament bring ne Jesus Christ"
But says some one in the audience
show do you prove that We are i'm
ruined condition by Sin?' Wen, l caJ
prove it iu two ways, AID you may hav,
your choice. l caa prove 10 by the state
mentS OF men, or by the statements o.
God. Which shall it Dc? You all say
''iet rs have the statement OF God.
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