Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25
THE HOME SOUL
Rev. Dewitt Talmage's Appeal
to the Youths of the World.
STORY OF THE PRODlGAL SON.
An Eloquent Sermon From Favorite Subject
of This Famous Divine.
Interesting Stories of :he Prodigars Path
way Related, Among Them Those
That Have Fallen Under His
Personal Observation.
STORY OF THE PRODlGAL SON.
THE HoME-SICK SOUL.
Special to the Gazette.

Special 10 the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, n. y, June 2l.-Dr Tai
IMAGES sermon this morning was an appeal
TO young men. Numbers OF these come to
the tabernacle services, many of them from
country homes, where they received Chris
tian training. which. in the temptations of
city life has been cast off. DR.. Talmage
called his sermon The Home-Sicll Soul, and
his text was from the Parable of the Prodi
gal Son, Luke Nv, Is, L will arise and
go to my father
There is nothing like hunger to take the
energy out of a 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. II WAS that fact that took the
fire out of this young man of the text.
Storm and exposure viii wear out any
mans life il time, but hunger makes quick
work. The most awful cry ever heard on
earth is the cry for bread. "A traveler-tellS
us that in Asia Minor there are trees which
bear fruit looking very much like the long
peau of our time. 1t . called the earab.
Once in while the people reduced to des-
titution would eat these carabs, bat gen.
orally 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 began to
soliloquise. He says, These are no clothes
for 4 rich mans son to wear: this is no kind
pf business for u jew to be engaged in
feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go home; l
will arise and go TO my father
WILL WE FOLLOW HIM2
| know there are great many people who
try to throw fascination. romance, a
halo about sin; but Notwithstanding all that
Lord Byron and George Sand have said in
regard to il, it is 4 mean, low, contemplate
business, and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of a herd Of iniquitieS that root
and wallow in the soul of man is a very
poor business for men and women intended
TO be sons and daughters of the Lord
Almighty. And when this young man re-
solved to go home, II was a very wise thing
for him TO do. and the only question is
whether we will follow him Satan prom
Uses large wages if we will serve him: out
he clothes his victims 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 luxuries, all emoluments if We will only
serve him. Liar, down with thee to the
pit! ''The wages of sin is death" o! the
young man of the text was wise when he
uttered the resolution: Il will arise and
go to my father"
In the time of Mary, the prosecutor, a
prosecutor came to Christian woman who
had hidden in her house for tho Lords
cake one of Christ'S servants, and the per-
secutor said: ''Whcre is that heretica':
The Christian woman said; You open
that trunk and you will see tho hcretic''
The prosecutor opencd the trunk, and on
the top Of the linen of the trunk he saw
glass. Es said; 'Thers is no hereto