The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-07-16

the door Of That beautiful homo one night
there was a great oulcry. The Young man
| ng the house ran down and opened TIM door
70 SEQ what was the matter. IL was mid
night. The rest II the family were asleep.
There were the wife and the children 81 this
prodigal YOUNG man. The fact was he bad
come home and driven them out. He said:
! ''Out OK this house. Away with these chill
, dren; ! will dash their brains out. Out into
4 tho storm
Tae mother gathered them ND and hed.
I The next morning tbs brother, the young
man who had sfAid at home went out to ind
| this prodigal brother and son, and be came
where be was, and saw the young man
wandering up and down in front OF the
place where he had been staying, and the
I Young man who had kept his integrity said
10 the older brother: Here, what does all
this mean What's the matter with your
Why do you get in this wayy" The
prodigal looked at him and saids who
am ~ Who do you take me to be-" He said,
. You are INV BROTHER mo. am not;
am a brute Have you seen anything OF my
wife and childrens Are they deadi ! drove
them out last night in the storm. / am
brute. John, do you think there is any help
for mes Do you think ! will ever get over
this life OF dissipation He said Brother,
there is just one thing that will stop this"
The prodigal ran his finger across his throat
and said: THAT will stop it. aud I'll stop it
before night OH my brain: can stand 1t
no longer" That prodigal never got home.
But win tell you OF prodigal that did get
home.
In England two young men started from
their fathers house and went down to Ports
mouth. The father could not pursue his
children; for some reason he could not leave
home, and SO he wrote letter down to Mr..
Griffin, saying; Mr.. Griffin, wish you
IL NAV hsaw
arrived in Portsmouth, and they are going
to take ship and going away from home.
wish you would persuade them back" Mr..
Griffin went, and he tried to persuade them
back. He persuaded one to go. He went
with very easy persuasion, because he was
very homesick already The other young
man said II win not go. have had enough
of home I'll never go home" "Well, /" said
Mr.. Griffin, ''then if you won't go home, III
get you respectable position on respect
able ship mo you WON'T said the prodi-
gall mo you won't. am going as conf
mon sailor; that win plague my father most,
and what will do most to tantalize and worry
him will please me best
Years passed on, and Mr.. Griffin was seated
in his study one day when a message came
to him that there was young man in irons
on ship at the dock-a young man CON
demned to death--who wished to see this
clergyman Mr.. Griffin went down to the
dock and went on shipboard. The young
man said to him, "You don't know me, do
youp "No," he said; Il don't know you"
why, don't you remember that young man
you tried to persuade &c. go home, and he
wouldn't go? "Oh, yes" said Mr. Griffin.
Are Won that nlann Eyes, l am that
man, " said the other. II would like to have
you pray for me. / have committed muir
der, and must die, but don't want to go
out of this world until some one prays for
me. You ara my fathers friend and
would like to have you pray for ma
Mr. Griffin went from judicial authority to
judicial authority to get the young mans.
pardon. He slept not nigh1 nor day. He
went from influential person to influential
person until some way he got that young
mans pardon. He came down on the dock,
and as he arrived on the dock with the par
don the father came. He had heard that his
son, under disguised name. had been COM
hitting crime and was going to be put to
ieath So Mr. Griffin and the father went
On the shiDs deck, and at the very moment
Mr.. Griffin offered the pardon to the young
nan, the old father threw his arms around
The sons neck and the son said: Father, l
have done very wrong and am very sorry
wish had never broken your heart. | am
very sorry "Ohr said the father don't
mention it; it don't make any difference
low. 1t is all over. forgive you, my son,
md he kissed him and kissed him and kissed
him.
To-day Offer you the pardon Of the Gospel
full pardon, free pardon. l do not care
What your sin has been. Though you say
-ou have committed a crime against God,
gainst your own soul, against your fellow
nam, against your family, against the day
t Judgment, against the cross Of Christ
yhatever your crime has been, here is
ardon, full pardon and the very moment
hat you take that pardon your heavenly
'ather throws His arms around about you
nd says: MY son, forgive you. IL Is air
Ight You are as much in My favor now as
you had never sinned." O there is joy on
arth and joy in heaven. Who will take the
ather's embracei
There was gentleman in a rail car who
Nv in that same car three passengers Of
ery different circumstances. The first was
maniac. He was carefully guarded by his
ttendants His mind, like ship dismasted,
as beating against dark, desolats coast,
ON which no help could come. The train.
opped, and the man was taken out into the
;ylum to waste away, perhaps, through
ears Of gloom. The second passenger was q
llprit. The outraged law had seizad on
i'm. As the cars iolted the chains ratified.
n his face were crime, depravity and
espair. The train halted and he
as taken out to the penitent'ary,
which he had been condemned.
here was the third passenger, under
II different circumstances. She was
bride. Every hour was gay as a marriage
III. Life glittered and beckoned. Her
was taking her to his fathers
,use. The train halted. The old man was
ere to welcome her to her new home, and
: white locks showed down upon her as he
aled his word with a fathers kiss.
Quickly we fy toward eternity. We win
on be there Some leave this life con-
mined. Oh, may it be with us, that leav-
2 this fleeting life for the next. we may
n our Father ready to greet US to our new
,me with Him forever. That will be
arriaQe banquet Fathers welcomed
,ther's bosoml Fathers kissl Heavenl
eavenl