The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-11

this divine cure now shall go 70 work. /
Ls, lie say that mere whim, an unde
fined longing amounts TO nothing. fon
must have stout. tremendous resolution
like this youn2 man of the text when he
said. Il will arise and go 20 my father"
THR AMii'NpING MERCY OF GOD
'OhF' says some man, -how do | know
my father wants me1 How do | know, il
| go back would he receivedf' "Oh"
says some man. you don't know where
have been. you don't know how far have
wandered you wouldn't talk that way To
me if you knew all the iniquities | have
committed What is that hutter among
the angels of Godf 1t is news. it is newsl
Christ has found the lost.
Nor angels can their joy contain.
But kindle with new fire;
The sinner lost. is found. they sing.
And strike the sounding Tyre.
When NaAoieon talked of going into
Italy. they said You can't get there
H you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about it or think of it,
You can't get your ammunition wagons
over the Alps 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
dernent of ali the years since-the won
derment of all engineers And you
tell me here 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
II will come over the mountains of thy sin
and the bills 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 rnisbehavior It was not mere
physical plight. 1t was grief that he had
so maltreated his father 1t is a sad thing
Gee, f.,Al~ f1,
child to have that child be ungratefuL
How sharper than serpent's tooth. it is,
To have a thankless child
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
is the heaviness of his mother" That is
the Bible. Well, my friends. have not
some of us been cruel prodigalsf Have we
not maltreated our Father? And such
Father, So loving, so kind. II he had
1 been a stranger, if he had forsaken us, if
I he had flagellated us, if be had pounded
us and turned us 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 apoiO
gized. We apologize for wrongs done to
our fellows, but some of US perhaps have
committed ten thousand times ten thou.
sand wrongs against God and never apollo
gized.
remark still farther that this resolu
| tion of. the text was founded in feeling
+ of homesickness. don't know how long
! this young man, how many months, how
/ many years he 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, Il would give the
world to be home tonight Well. this
! young man vv;ls homesick for his fathers
\ house Il 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 DEAD?
/ We read nothing in this story-this par
able founded ON everyday Iife-we read
nothing about the mother 1t says moth
ing about going home to her. | think she
! was dead | think she had died of "A broken
heart at his wanderings. A man never
gets over having lost his mother. Moth
ing said about her hers. But he is home
sick for his fathers house. He thought he
would just like TO 20 and walk around the
old place He Thought he would Just like
to go and see If things were as they used
to be Many man after having been off
a long while has gone home and knocked
at the door, and a stranger has come. It
is the old homestead, but a stranger comes
I
and mother is gone, and brothers and sis.
z tiers all gone | think this young man of
the text said to himself, Perhaps father
may be dead Still he starts to find out.
4 He is homesick Are there any here today
hon,esick for God. hoinesick for heavenY
A sailor. after having been long on the
sea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to 20
away again. She said, Nov you had bet,
ter stay ut home. Don't go away; we
don't want you to 90. You will have it a
great deal better here" But it made him
angry The night before he went away
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
A perilous duty. and he ran up the ratlines
and amid the shroutls of the ship he heard
the voice that he had heard in the next
room. He tried to whistle it off, he tried
to rally his courage, but he could mol
silence that voice he had heard in the next
room, and there in the storm and the dark
ness he said. o Lordl what wretch
have been, what wretch am. Help me
just now, Lord God" And l thought in
this assem- blage today there may be some
who may have the memory of a father,
, petition or a mothers prayer pressing
nightly upon the soul, and that this houl
they may make the same resolution | finc
in my text, saying. II will arise and go tx
my father
ILLUSTRATION OF THE RESCUED BOY.
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle
went out into the sea, went out too far, go
| beyond his depth and he loated far away
: A ship hound for Dublin came along ant
l took him on board Sailors are general,
t very generous fellows, and one gave him
cap and another gave him jacket, and an
3 other gave him shoes. A gentleman pass
! ing along on the beach at Liverpool fount
rho Iad,c clO and took than hop,a on,