Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-22

! have stout, tremendous resolution
/ Ike this Young man of the text when
/ he said: ~ will arise and go to my
father.
HAS FOUND THE LOST.
"Ok." says some man, chow do l
/ know my father wants me? How do I
! know. if 20 back, ! would be Feceiyed?"
cor says some man, you don't know
where l have been; you don't know how
/ far l have wandered; you wouldn't talk
that way To me if you knew all the in
/ iCuities l have committed" What is
I that Gutter among the angels Of God?
/ ii is news, it is news, Christ has found
the lost.
Nor angels can their Joy contain,
But kindle with new fire.
The sinner lost, is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
/ When Napoleon talked of going into
Italy, they said: "YOu can't get there;
| if you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about il or think OF it;
you can't get your ammunition wagons
/ over the Alps" Then Napoleon rose
In his stirrups and waving ais hand
7 toward the mountains, he said: "There
shall be no Alps" That wonderful
pass was laid out which has been the
wonderment of the years Since-the
wOaCerment Of all engineers. And you
tell me there are such mountains OF sin
4 between yourself and God, there is no
mercy. Then I see Christ waving his
hand toward the mountains; l hear him
say: u will come over the mountains
Of thy sin and the hills Of thy iniquity."
7 There shall be no PyreneeS; there snail
be no Alps.
Again, l notice that this resolution of
the young man Of the text was founded
in sorrow at his misbehavior. IL was
grief that he had so maltreated his
/ father 1t is a sad thing after father
has done everything for q child, to
7 have q child be ungrateful.
.. How sharper than aserpents tooth, It is,
TO have d thankless child"
That is Shakespeare. "a foolish son
| is the heaviness of his mother" That
I is the Bible. Well, my friends, have
not some OF US been cruel pr0digals?
Have we not maltreated our Father?
/ And such Father, So loving, so kind.
/ If he had been q stranger, if he had for
| >GAtL U.S. "a At Lts4A Los N4AtltN'A as II 49,
/ had pOunded Us and turned Us out OF
doors on the commons, it would not
/ have been SO wondertgl-0ur treatment
/ of him; bat he is q father so loving, 50
/ kind, and yet how many of us for our
wanderingS have never apOl0gized. We
/ apologize or wrongs done 10 our TEL
4 lows. but some Of Us perhaps have com
mitted ten thousand times ten thousand
wrongs against God and never apollo
gized.
HONEsICKNESS.
Iremark still further that this reso-
luton of the text was founded in a
feeling of inconsistencies. | don't know
how long this young man, how many
months, how many years, he had been
away from his fathers house; but there
is something in the reading OF my text
that makes mo think he was hOmeSick.
Some Of you know what that feeling IS.
Far away FROM home sometimes, sur
rounded by everything bright and pleas
ant-plenty OF friendS-yOu have said:
Il would give the world to be home TO-
night" Well, this young man was
homesicll for his fathers house. I have
no doubt when he thought of his
+ fathers house, he said: "Now, per-
hapS, father may not be living"
We read nothing in the stOry-this
parable founded on everyday life-we
read nothing about the mother. II says
nothing about going home to her. l
think she was dead. l think she had
died of q broken heart NJ his wander
ings. q man never gets over having
lost his mother Nothing said about
her here. But he is homeSck for his
/ fathers house. de thought he would
lust ike % 20 ana walk around the Old
place. He Thought he would just like
10 20 and see ii Things were rs they
used CD be. Many man, after having
been OF "a iOne while, has gone nome
and Knocked ut the door, and stranger
has come 10 is the old homestead
bur q stranger comes 10 the door. lie
finds Out father is gone and mother is
/ gone. and brothers and sisters all gone.
I think this young man OF the text said
to himself: perhaps father may be
dead" S5iil he starts TO dnd out. He
is homcsicl. Are there any here to-day
homesick Tor God. hOmeSick for heaven?
A sailor. after having been long on
Lllt Nftts III A4NN W Ills "a 4iNA = tAUN rs
AID his mother tried To persuade him
not TO go away again. She said: Now
you had better stay at home; don't 20
away; We don't want you 10 go: you
will have it q great deal better
here" But IL made him an
cry. The night before ne went
away again 10 sea, he heard his mother
praying ia the next room, and That
made him more angry. He went far
outou the sea and a storm camc up, and
DE was ordered TO very perilOus duty,
and he ran up the rltlineS, and amid
the shroudS of the ship be heard the
voice that he had heard in the next
room. lie tried to whistle 10 Off, 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, ne said: 80 LOrd,
what wretch I have been; what q
wretch am. Help me just now, Lord
. God And / thought in this assem-
biage to-day there may be some who
may have the memory OF fathers pc
tti0n or q mothers prayer passing
nightly upon the soul, aud that THIS
hour they may make the same resolution
find in my text, saying: 81 will arise
and go TO my father"
A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe,
Went cut iuto the sea, went out too far,
got beyond his depth, and he hoated
far away. A ship bound for Dublin
came along and took linn on board
Sailors are generally very generous fcl-
lows, and one gave him cap and an
other gave him a jacket, and another
gave him shoes. A gentleman passing
al. Ii I ,