Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-07-11
REV. DIR. TAIMAGE
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There l. nothing like hunger 20 take the
energy out of "a man, A hungry man can
toll neither witn PeE- Aor hand, nor foot.
There Las been MANY an army defeated, not
20 mitch for lack or ammunition as for lack
81 brad IL was that fact that tCok the fire
out Of this Young man Of the text. Storm
and exposure will wear out any nan life IL
time, but hunger makes quick work. The
most awful cry ever heard on earth is the
CRY for bread A Traveller tells US that in
Asia Miner there are trees which bear fruit
looking very much like the long bean Of our
time. 1t is called the carab.
Once III a wEile the people reduced to deS
tltution would eat these cerabs, but gener-
ally the carabs, the beans spoken Of here III
the text, We're thrown only to the swine, and
they crunched them with great avldity.
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 s~olilcqulze. He saws These are no
clothes for a rich mans son to wear this IS
no kind Of business for a Jew to be engaged
III feeding swine, III 20 home, I'll 60 home
| viii arise and 20 20 my father
| know there are a great many people
who try TO throw a fascination, a romance,
a halo about sin: hut notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have said
IN regard to IL, 1t Is Il mean, low, contempti
BILE business, and putting food and fodder
into the trougho Of a herd or antiquities
that root and waliow IN the soul of man is a
very poor business for men and women IN
tended to be sons and daughters OF the Lord
Almighty. And when this young man re-
solved to 60 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 IL We Will
serve him, but he clothes his victims with
rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and
when they start out to 10 letter he sets after
them all the bloodhounds OF perdltion.
Satan comes to us to-day and he promlse all
Injuries, all emoluments If we will only
serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit!
The wage Of sin is death" Oh, the young
man of the text was wise when be uttered
the resolution, II viii arise and go to my
father.
In the time of Mary the Prosecutor, a per-
secutor came to a Christian woman who had
hidden in her house for the Lords sake one
Of Christ's servants. and the prosecutor said,
Where is that neretic?' The Christian
woman said, You open that run and you
VIII see the hereto" Tho prosecutor opened
the trunk, and on the top Of the linen Of the
trunk he saw a glass He said, There is n O
hereto here" 'Ah,7 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 con
dition-so that we might be as wise as this
young man was, and say, u will arise and
60 to my father
The resolution Of this text was formed in
disgust at his present circumstances. II 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
or overseeing other laborers he would not
have thought of going home. II he had had
his pockets full of money, If he had been able
to say, Il have a thousand dollars now OF my
own. what's fha lSa of nv GOING hack to nv
fathers house? do you think am going back
to apologizet to the old man? why he would
put me on the limits; he would not have go
ing IN around the Old place such conduct as
| have engaged in; | won't go home; there
is no reason why | should go home, I have
plenty Of money. plenty Of pleasant sur
~roundings, why should l go homer All! 1t
was his pauperism, it was his beggary. lie
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,, and
talk of something more exhilarating?' 1t IS
for this reason: A man never wants the
Gospel until he realizes he is in a famine
struck state. Suppose l should come to you
in your home and you are in good. sound,
robust health, and l should begin to talk
about medicines. and about how much better
this medicine is than that, and some other
medicine. and talk about this physician and
that physician. After a while you get tired,
and You would say: Il don't want to hear
about medicines. Why do y~outalk to me
of physicians? never have a DOCTOR
But suppose [ come into your house and |
find you severely sick, and 1 know the medi-
cines that will cure. and | know the physl-
clan who is skillful enough to meet your
case. You say: Bring on that medicine;
bring on that phi ysician. lam terribly sick,
and | want help" If l came to you and yor
81 49,, ,-1 II ,,~1$ -, H~l- nnt oil riuhf II
mind, and all right in soul you have need Of
nothing; but suppose | have persuaded yor
that the leprosy OF sin Is upon you, the worst
of all sickness; oh, then you say Bring IN
that balm of the Gospel; bring me that dl
vine Iuedicament, bring me Jesus Christ"
But says some one in the audience, "Hov
do you prove that we are Ia a ruined condl
ton by sini' Wen, | can prove it in twt
ways, and you may have your choice.
can prove it by the statements of men o.
by the statement of God. Which shall i
Le? You all say, Let us have the state
ment Of God We'll, He says in one place
'The heart is deceitful above all things an
desparately wicked" He SAYS in anothe
place, wv hat Is man that he should b
clean ami he which is born Of a woman
that he should he rlghteous:' He saws i,
another place, There Is none that dOetl
good, no, not one He saws in anothe
place, As fy oGe man sin entereth into tn,
world, aud death by SIN, and So death passe.
upon ali men, for that all have Sinnei
Nv ell, you say. Il am willing 10 acA novI
edge that, but why should | take the partic
usaf rescue that vcu propose This is th
reason, Except a man be born again h
cannot See the kingdom of Cod This is tn
reason, Where is one name given unde
heaven among men whereby they may b
saved Then there are Il thousand voice
here ready to say. We'll, l am ready to ac
sept this help OF the Gospel; | would like t.
have this divine cure. how shall | go t
work" Let me say that a mere within a
undetned longing amounts to nothing
You must have Il stcut, tremendous resolu
non like this young man of the text whe
he said, i will arls- and go To my father. =
oh" says some man. "Eov do | know M
father wants me? How do | know, if | 9
back, | would be received" oh" say
some man, YOU don't know where | hay
teen, You don't Know how far | have wal
tered You wouldn't talk that way TO me
YOU knew all the iniquitieS l have commit
ted What is that iiutter among the angel
" tod 1t Is news, il IS news! Christ b..
found the lost.
Nor angels can thei- JOY contain.
Eat hi0Csc with nesy fire;
lie sinner 4o-f. IS found, they sing.
And sfrtEe tho So-r3gr- g-.a