The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-08
GET HOMESICK.
Homesick for Your God, Homesick for
m .vni Heaven. ttl "a aal
From the Innocent Country Into the Wick
cd C!sy-Dr. Talnaase's Appeal to
Young Men.

81 XII iNh aN TH
From the Innocent Country Into the Wick.
cd C!sy-Dr. Talmase's Appeal to
Young Men.
DR.. Talmage on Sunday called his
sermon: "The Homesick Soul" and
his text was from the parable Of the
Prodigal Son, Luke XIV, IS: 81 will
arise and 60 to my father" ii.i'
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out OF man. A hungry
man can toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot. There has been many an
army defeated not SO much for lack of
ammunition as for lack of bread It
was that fact that took the fire out OF
this young man Of the text Storm and
exposure will wear out any mans life
in 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 Minor there are trees
which bear fruit looking very much
like the long bean Of our time. 1t is
called the carab. lLs
Once in while the people reduced to
desperation 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 So
,liloquize. He says: 'These are no
clothes for . rich mans son to wear;
this is no kind OF q business for Jew
! TO be engaged IMPEDING swine; III 60
home; I'll 60 home; will arise and 60
to my father"
know there are great many peo-
pie who try to throw fascination. q
romance, a halo about sin; but notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and Geo.
Sand have said in regard to it, 1t is a
mean, low, contemplate business, and
putting food and fodder into the troughs
of herd of iniquities that root and
wallow 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 resolved to go home it was 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 vic
Tins with rags, and he pinches them
with hunger, and when they start out
to do better he sets after them all the
blood-hounds of perdition. Satan comes
TO us to-day and he promises all luxu'
ries, all emoluments If we will only
serve him. Liar, down with thee to
the pit! 1.-THE wages Of sin is death. y
o! the young man of the text was wise
when he uttered the resolution: II will
arise and 60 to my father"
In the time OF Mary, the prosecutor
prosecutor 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 i.
that heretic?" The Christian woman
said: "You open that trunk and 70,
will see the hereto" The prosecutor
opened the trunk and on the top of thu
linen of the trunk he saw glass HI
said: "There is no hereto here" "Ah,
she said, ''you look in the glass and 70,
will see the hereto" As take up tn
mirror Of Gods word to-day, would tina
instead Of seeing the prodigal son o
the text we might see ourselves-ou
. want our wandering, our sin, our los
condition, so that we might be as wis
as this young man was and say: 81 will
, arise and 60 to my father"
The resolution of this text was form
ed in disgust at his present circum
, stances. If this young man had BEEF
by his employer set to cultivating flow
| ers, or training vines over an arbor, o
, keeping account of the pork market, o
overseeing other laborers, he would no
, have thought of going home. If he ha
had his pockets full Of money, if he ha
been able to say, 81 have 81, 900 now Q
, my own; what's the use of my goin
, back to my fathers house? Do 20
r think l am going back to apologize t
the old man? Why, he would put m
I on the limits; he would not have goin
e on around the old place such conduc
| as I have been engaged in. won
60 home; there is no reason why
should 60 home; have plenty of MOI
!. ey, plenty Of pleasant surrounding
y why should l go home? All! it was HI
: pauperism; it was his beggary. He ha
3 to go home.
Some man comes and says to m,
q 'Why do you talk about the RUNE
a state of the human soul? Why don
. you speak about the progress of tt
q nineteenth century, and talk of som
thing more exhilarating?" 1t is fc
this reason; man never wants tn
Gospel until he realizes he is in fan
q ine-stricken state Suppose / shoul
: come to you in your home and you al
in good, robust health, and should b
gin to talk to you about medicines, ar
about how much better this medicine
;. than that, and some other medicir
;. than some other medicine. and tai
. about this physician and that physical
i, After awhile you would get tired, ar
. you would say: II don't want to he;
= about medicines Why do you talk
= me of physicians? never have do
= tor" But suppose l come into yo'
. house and l find you severely sick, al
I know the medicines that will cul
= you, and I know the physician who
. skillful enough to meet you case.
= You say: Bring on that medicil
. bring on that physician. am terrib
Il sick and l want help" If came