The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-11
AT THE TABERNACLE
DR. TALMAeE BREACHES ON vARi-
+ Gus KINDS OF. .eRooieALs.

The Crew That Was Almost >aved-The
Pardoned Criminai-The Cody Sarrow
That Leadeth Repentance
BFooKLYN. Iune 2i.-Dr -Talmage's ser
mon this morning All appeal TO young
men. Numbers of these come To the Tab
ernacie services. many of them from coun
cry homes. where they received Christian
training which III the temptations of city
life has been cast off DIR Talmage called
his sermon ''The Homesick Soul" and his
text was from the parable of the prodigal
son. Luke XIV lS Il will arise and go to
my father
There is nothing like hunger to take the
energy out of n man. A hungry man can
toll neither with pen, nor hand, nor foot.
There has been many army defeated,
not SO much for lack of ammunition as for
lack of bread 1t was that fact tnat took
the fireeout of this young man of the text
Storm and exposure will wear out any
mans life i'm time but hunger makes quick
work. The most awful cry ever heard on
earth is the cry for bread A traveller tells
us chat i'm Asia Minor there are trees which
bear fruit looking very much like the long
bean OF our time IL is called the carab
Once in while the people reduced Co
SiestituJiou 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 begins TO soliloquize He says These
are no clothes for rich mans son to wear;
this is no kind of business for Jew to be
engaged rn--feeding swine. I'll go home,
I'll go home. | will arise and go to my
father
know there are a great many people
hr,.t .trc rn rhrny a fascination
n halo about sin, but Notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have
said in regard to it it IL n mean, low, con-
temptible business, and putting food and
fodder into the troughs of a herd of lniqui
ties that root and wallow in the soul OF
man is a very poor business for men and
women intended TO be sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty And when this
young man resolved to go home it was "A
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 bloodhounds of per
dition Satan comes to us today and he
promises all uXuries. all emoluments if
we will only serve him Liar. down with
thee TO the pitt THE wages of sin is
death Oh, the young man of the text
was wise when he uttered the resolution.
''I will arise and go to my father
In the time of Mary the Prosecutor. a
prosecutor came to a Christian woman who
had hidden in her house for the Lords
sake one of Christ's servants, and the per
secutor 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
- fel1 IL arrl.,
He esaid, There is no hereto here. - ''Ah.r
she said, you look in the glass, and you
will see the hereticp As l. take up the
mirror of Gods word today would that in
stead 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 II will arise and 20 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 employer
set TO culturing flowers or training vines
over an arbor or keeping account OF the
pork market overseeing other laborers
he would not have thought of going home.
IL he had bad his pockets full of money, If
he had been able to say. Il have a thousand
dollars now of my own. what's the use of
my going back to my fathers house7 do
you think am going back to apologize 70
the old mani why he would put me on the
limits, he would not have going on around
the old place such conduct as have been
engaged in, won't go home. there is no
reason why ! should 20 home. | have
plenty of money, plenty of pleasant sur
roundings. why should go homer Ahl
it was his pauperism. 1t was his beggary
He had to go 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,
aud talk of something more exhilarating?
It is for this reason A man never wants
the gospel until he realizes he is in Il fam
inc struck state Suppose should come
10 you in your home and you are in good
sound, robust health and | should begin
70 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 yor
get tired, and you would say II dom
want to hear about medicines. Why dc
you talk to me of physiciansf | never
have doctor
But suppose come into your house AM
I find you severely sick and know tn,
medicines that will cure you, and know
the physician who is skillful enough u
meet your case You say: Bring on tha
medicine, bring on that physician. | an
terribly sick, and want help" If cam
20 you and you feel you are all right il
body, aud all right in mind, and all righ
in soul you have need of nothing; but sup
pose | have persuaded you that tn
leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of al
sickness; oh. then you say: Bring me tha
balm of the gospel: bring me that di vim
medicament. bring me Jesus Christ.
But says some one in the audience
How do you prove that we are IN ruine
condition nv sin 9'' Well I can nrove il i