Nevada County picayune., 1891-07-02

text, saying: "I 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 float ed far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board. l Sailors are generally very generous fel- l lows, and one gave him cap and ] another give him q jacket, and another gave him shoes \ gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lads clothes and took them home, and the father was hcartbrolxen and the mother was hcartbrolten at the loss of their child They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning for the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the garments ar rived. He knocked at the door, and the father was overioved and the mother was overioyed at the return of their lost son. 0, my friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you wadcd down to sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back, will you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed in the Saviours righteousness? 1 believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He is waiting for you. Go home.
 There is a man who had the typhoid fever. He said: ''Oh. if could get over this terrible distress, If this fever should depart, if could he re- stored to health, 1 would all the rest of my life serve God The fever depart ed. He got well enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to go over to New York and attend to bnsi- ness. He is well to-day-as well as he ever was. Where is the broken VOW? There k n man who said long ago: "lf could live to year 1891, by that time l will have by business mat ters arranged and will have time to attend 10 religion, and will be a good, thorough consecrated Christian" The year 1891 has come January, Febru- ary, March, April, May, June-almost half the year gone. Where is your bro ken vow?' 70, says some man. "I'll attend to that when can get my char acter fixed up; when can get over my evil habits: am now given to strong drink or, says the man, "l am given to unclcauncss;a or, says the man. "I am given to dishonesty. When get over my present habits then I'll be thorough Christian. My brother, you will get worse and worse until Christ takes you in hand. Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call
 o, but you say: 'I agree with you on all that, but l must put il off little 1 longer Do you know there were many who came just as near as you are to the kingdom of God and never entered it? l was at East Hampton and went into the cemetery to look around, and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by Sidc-the graves of sailors. The crew. some years ago,
 in ship went into the breakers at Amagansctt, about three miles away. My brother, then preaching at East Hampton, had been at the burial. These men of the crew came very near being saved. The people from Anna gansett saw the vessel, and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the boat, and they pulled nightly for shore. but just before they got to the shore the rope snapped, and the boat capsizcd, and they were lost their bodies aftcrWard washed up on the beach. O, what a solemn day it was-I have been told of it by my brother-when these twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit and he read over them the funeral service, They came very near the sho.e- within shouting distance of the shore. vet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men who come almost to the shore of Gods mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be only almost saved is not to be saved at all.
 To-day offer you the pardon of the Gospei-full pardon, free pardon. do not care what your sin has been. Though you say you have committed a crime against God. against your own soul, agaiust your fellow man, against your family, against the day of judgment, against the cross of ChriSt-what- ever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pardon. and the very mo- ment that you take that pardon your heavenly father throws His arms around about you and says: My son, l for give you. It k all right. You are as much in my favor now as if you had never sinncd.' Q, there is joy on earth and joy in Heaven. Who will take the Fathers embrace.
 There was a gentleman in rail car who saw in that same ear three passen- gers of very different circumstances. The first was a maniac. He was care fully guarded by his attendants; his mind, like a ship diNmasted, was beating against a dark, desolatc coast, from which no help could come. The train stopped and the man was taken out into the asylum To waste away pershaps, through years of gloom. The second passenger was a culprit The outraged law had seized on him, As the cars jolted the chains rattled, On his face were crime. depravity and despair, The train halted and he was ta'i'n out to the penitcntiary, to which he had been con demncd. There was the third pas sengcr, under far different circum- stances She was bride, Every hour was gay as a marriage bell. Life gilt tered and brckoned Her companion was taking her to his fathers house. The train halted The old man was there to welcome her to her new home, and his white locks showed down upon her as he sealed his word with fathers kiss
 Quickly we fly toward eternity, We