Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-25


committed What is thai Autter among
tue angels OF Go,lf 1t is news. it is newsl
Christ has found the lost
Noi a1sais caa t,.e.r Toy coa;a.n
But AA,l.e will neE IRE.
The sinner lost. il found they sing
and strike the sounding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked of going into
Italy. they said you can't get there.
II you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about it or think of it,
Yon can't get your ammunition wagons
over the Alps. I" Then Napoleon rose
in his stirrups and waving his hand to-
ward the mountains, he said, There
shall be no ALPS" That wonderful pass
was laid out which has been the won
derment of all the years since-the won.
derment OF all engineers. And you
tell me there are such mountains of sin be
tween your soul and God there Is no
mercy Then see Christ waving his hand
toward the mountains. ! hear him say,
~ will come over the mountains of thy sin
and the hills Of thy iniquity." There shall
be no Pyrenees; there shall be no Alps.
Again, notice that this resolution of the
young man of the text was founded in sor-
row at his misbehayior IL was not mere
physical plight. 1t was grief that he had
so maltreated his father. 1t is u sad thing
nfter father has done everything for
child to have that child be ungrateful.
How sharper than serpent's tooth. il is.
To have thankless child.
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
is the heavness of his mother" That Is
the Bible Well, my friends, have not
some of us been cruel prodigdsi Have we
not maltreated our Fatherf And such a
Fatheri So loving. so kind. If he had
been stranger, If he had forsaken us, II
he had dagellated MS, If he had pounded
us and turned MS out of doors on the com
mons, it would not have been so wonderful
our treatment Of him, but he is "A Father
so loving so kind. and yet how many OF
us for our wanderings have never apollo
gized We apologize for wrongs done to
our fellows hut some of us perhaps have
committed ten thousand times ten thou
sand wrongs against God and never apollo
gized.
remark still further that this resolu-
tion of the text was founded in a feeling
of Inconsistencies don't know how long
This young man. how many months, how
many Years lie had been away from his
fathers house. but there is something in
the reading of my text that makes me
think he was homesck. Some of you
/ know what that feeling is. Far away from
home sometimes. surrounded by every
| thing bright and pleasant - plenty OF
/ friends-you have said, 81 would give the
world 10 be home tonight Well, tins
Young man was homesick for his fathers
| house. have no doubt when he thought
of his fathers house he said, Now, per
haps, father may not be living.
WAS THE PRoDIGAL's MOTHER DEADG
We read nothing in this story-this par
able founded Non everyday life-we read
nothing about the mother. It says moth.
ing about going home to her. think she
was dead. think she had died ofa broken
heart at his wanderings. A man never
gets over having lost his mother. Moth
ING said about her here. But he is home
sick for his fathers house. He Thought he
would lust like to 20 and walk around the
old place. He thought he would just like
TO 90 and see II things were as they used
to be Many man after having been on
a long while has gone home and knocked
Mt the door, and a stranger has come. IL
is the old homestead, but a stranger comes
to the door. He finds out father is gone
and mother is gone, and brothers ana SIS
tiers all zone | think this young man OF
the text said to himself, perhaps father
NAV be dead" Still he starts 10 lind out.
He is bomesick Are there any here today
homesick for God. homesick for heayenl
A sailor. after having been long on the
sea. returned to his fathers house, and ms
mother tried to persuade him not TO go
away again. She said: "Now you had bet
ter STAY AT home Don't 20 away; we
don,, want Won to 20. You will have 1t a
GREAT deal better here" But it made HIM
angry The night before he went away
aonin TO sea he heard his mother praying
in the next ROOM and that made MN more
angry. He went far out on the sea ana
storm came up, and he was ordered 10 very
nerilous duty and he ran up the ratllnes,
and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard
the voice that he had heard IN the next
saan, lie tried TO whistle it of, he tried
10 rally his courage, but he couiu no.
silence that voice he had heard in the next
room. and there in the storm and the DARK,
rass he said; O Lordl what wretch
have been: what a wretch am Help me
;rst NOW Lord God" And | Thought IN
his assemblage today there may be some
rho may have the memory of father
na,ition or a mothers prayer pressing
nightly upon the soul, and that TINS hou,
they may make the same resolution 1 mo
IN NV text. saying, 81 will arise and go &c
my father"
ILLUSTRATION OF THE RESCUED BOY.
lad at Liverpool went out to battle
,vant ont into the sea, went out too far go'
beyond his depth and he fioated far away
A shin bound for Dublin came along ano
tool him on board. Sailors are generally
v sT generous fellows, and one gave him
.1d another gave him a jacket. and an
other gave him shoes gentleman fd paSs
ths lads clothes and took them home, ano
} the the father was heartbroken, the mother
was beartbroken at the loss of their child
They had heard nothing .I from tb ni% ns may
saourning for the sad event. But the lac
t oo ship from Dublin and arrived in Liy
s emo the very day the garments arriyea
he Knocked at the door, and the l.l ta ox"r
va st the return of their lost son. On
.oS friends. have you waded out too deep