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

To n4fs tlAnAiffa ciA4
That Is shnkesp=are. "A foolish son .stAl
! heavineFs Of Bis mother That y toe Bible
Vel. my friends, have not sols q ns beer
cruel proiieais' Hare We not nia.tfe,tes
cllr Father And such a fatler 80 low
in.. 80 kind. II he had been stranger. q
| ~ haI fo.sakea ~. " he had lageliatei Us
I 4 He had pounded rs and turned Us out o
doors on the commons. j. would not hav'
been 80 wOnderfui--our trsatmsnt Of Hin
but Heisa Father 10 loving, - kind, ant
vet how many OF Us for our wanderings have
never apologized. We apologize for wrong
done TO our iellows. but some OF a. perhapi
have committsi ten thousand times Ten
thousand wrongs against God and never
apologizsd
I remark still farther that this resolution
u the text was founded ia feeling Of home
sickness / don't know how long this young
man. now many month"; how many years
be nad been away from his fathers house;
but there is something in the reading OF my
text that makes me think he was homeslcs.
Some OF you know what that feeling i, Far
away from home sometimes, surrounded by
everything bright and pleasant-plenty OF
friends--you have said, II would give the
world 70 be home tonight Well, this
young man was homesick for his fathers
house have no doubt when he thought OF
his fathers house he said, Now, perhaps,
father may not be liyingn
We read nothing in this story-this par
able founded on everyday hfe-we read
nothing about tbs mother II says nothing
about going hons 70 her. think she was
dead. think she had died OK bToken heart
at his wanderings. A man never gets over
having lost bis mother. Nothing said about
her here. But he is homssick for his fathers
house. He thought he would just like to go
aud walk around the old place. He
thought he would Just like to go and see II
things were as they used to he. Many a man
after having been of long while has gone
home and knocked at the door. and stran-
ger has come. II is the old homestead, but
stranger comes to the door. He finds out
father is gone and mother is gone, and
brothers and sisters all gone l think this
young man OF the text said to himself, Per
haps father may be dead Still hs starts to
find out. He IS homesick. Are there any
here to-day homesick FOR God, homesick for
heaven
A sailor, after having been long on the
sea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to 60 away
again. She said: NOW you had better stay
at home. Don't 20 away; we don't want you
TO so. You will have 1t great deal better
here" But it made him angry. The night
before he went again to sea he heard his
mother praying in the next room, and that
made him more angry. He went far out on
the sea, and a storm came up, and he was
ordered to very perilous duty, and he ran up
the ratlines, and amid the shrouds of the
ship he heard the voice that he had heard in
the next room. He tried to whistle it of,
ne tried to rally his courage, but
ne could not silence that voice be had
heard in the next ROOM, and there in
iha storm and the darkness he said: 20 Lord
what wretch have been: what wretch
am. Help me just now, Lord God" And
thought in this assemblage to-day there
nay be some who may have the memory Of
/ fathers petition or a mothers prayer
PRESSING nightly upon the soul, and that
his hour they may make the same resolution
find in my text. saying, Il will arise and
70 to my father
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle, went |
nut into the sen, went out too far, got beyond |
lis depth and he iioated far away. A ship |
found for Dublin came along and took him |
IN board. Sailors are generally very gener-
JUS fellows, and one gave him q cap and |
mother gave him jacket, and another gave |
lin shoes. A gentleman passing along on !
he beach at Liverpool found the lads |
,othes and took them home, and the father |
vas heartbroxen, the mother was heartbroken !
i the loss OF their child.
They had heard nothing from him day
Ifter day, and they ordered the usual mourn
ng for the sad event. But the lad took ship
rom Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the
cry day the garments arrived. He knocked
t the door, and the father was overjoyed,
nd the mother was overjoyed at the return
their lost son. Oh. my friends, have you
,aded out too deep? Have you waded down
lto SIM Have you waded from the shore?
viii you come backs When you come back,
ill you come in the rags of your sin, or win
GU come robed in the Saviour's righteous
ess? believe the latter. Go home to your
+od to-day. He is waiting for you. Go
omel
But remark concerning this resolution,
was Immediately put into execution. The ,
ontext says, HE arose and came to his
lther." The trouble in nine hundred and
inetv.nine times out of a thousand Is that
~ resolutions amount to nothing because
q make them for some distant time. If I
solve to become Christian next year, that !
mounts to nothing at all. II l resolve to ,
scome a Christian tomorrow, that amounts ,
nothing at all. If / resolve at the service
-night to become a Christian, that amounts
nothing at all. II l resolve after l go
,me to-day to yield my heart to God, that
MOUNTS to nothing at all. The only kind Of
solution that amounts to anything is the I
solution that is Immediately put into exc
tion.
There is a man who had the typhoid fever !
e said: "Oh if could get over this ter /
ole distressi II this fever should depart, +
l could be restored to health. would all !
e rest of my life serve God" Ths fever I
parted. He got well enough to walk /
ound the block. He got well enough to go I
en- to New York and attend to business.
} is well to-day-as well as he ever was !
here is the broken vows There is man d
10 said long ago, 'If / could live to the i
ar 1891, by that time / will have my BUSH Z
IS matters arranged, and will have time b
attend to religion, and will be good, n
orough, consecrated Christian" /
The year 1891 has come. January. Febru- I
Y March, April, May. June-almost bali
the year gone. Where is your broken
VIZ. ''Oh,a saws some man, IN attend
that when can get my character liked
WhenI can get over my evil habits. /
now given to strong drink, or, says the s
ia. lam given TO uncleanness," or, says the 4
IN. az am given to dishonesty. When get
err my present habits, then TIL be thor
Oh Christian Ny brother. you viii get
rse and worse until Christ takes you IN {
nd. Not the righteouss sinners, Jesus b
ne to call" y
)ni but YOU say, 'T agree with you on al y
II but ! must put it on a little longer" 5
Won know there were many who came as I
n as you are 70 the kingdom Of God and 4
YER entered it. ] was at East Hampton
1 I went into the cemetery e look around, =
4 in that cemetery thereare twelve graves &
Z By side-the graves OF sailors Tbs D
w. some years ago IN snip went INTO i
, hreakers at Amagansett, about three
- e~~~ nv brother. then preaching at e
IL 4nranfou' had been at the burial. 4
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