Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-25
All THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. rALMAeE breaches ON vARI-
ou5 KINDS OF PRoDlGALs.


ppooKLYN. June 2l-Dr. Talmages ser
mon this morning was an appeal . young
NON Numbers of these come TO the Tab
ornaele services. many of them from coun-
,rv homes. where they received Christian
.raining. which. in the temptations of city
ne has been cast off DR. Talmage called
lid sermon 'The Homesick Soul. and his
tert was from the parable Of the prodigal
son Luke XIV. IS. 81 viii arise and 90 to
my father
energy out of man. A hungry man can
nil 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 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
rs that in Asia Minor there are trees which
hear fruit looking very much like the long
bean of our time. 1t is called the carab.
Once in a while the people reduced to
Institution would eat these carabs, but
generally the carabs, the beans spoken Of
here III lut ltANf WHY NhhONh OAfe w WV
swine and they crunched them with great
aydty 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 soliloquize. He says: These
are no clothes for rich mans son to wear:
this is no kind of business for jew to be
engaged IMPEDING swine, I'll go home,
mi 90 home. | will arise and 20 to my
father"
know there are great many people
who try to throw fascination, romance,
a halo about sim but Notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have
said in regard TO it it is a mean, low, con
temptible business, and putting food and
fodder into the troughs of herd OF iniqui-
ties 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 resolved to go home It was a
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 victims with
rags aud lac pinches them with hunger,
and when they start out TO do better he
sets after them all the bloodhounds OF per
diton Satan comes to us today and he
promises all luxuries, all emoluments II
we will only serve him. Liar, down with
thee TO the pitt 1.-THE wages OF sin IS
death" Oh, the young man of the text
was wise when he uttered the resolution,
~ will arise and 90 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 per
secutor said, Where is that hereticr The
Christian woman said, you open that
trunk, and you will see the hereto. The
prosecutor opened the trunk, and on the
topof the linen of the trunk he sawa glass.
He said, There is no hereto here. An,
she said, you look in the glass, and you
will see the hereticp' As | take up the
mirror of Gods word today would that IN
stead of seeing the prodigal son OF the text
we might see ourselves-our want, our
wandering, our sin, our lost eondiuon-so
that we might be as wise as this young
man was, and say. 81 will arise and 20 TO
my father"
IN SORROW ONE LONGS FOR A FATHER
The resolution Of this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances. II
this young man had been by his employer
set to culturing flowers or training vines
over an arbor or keeping account OF the
pork market or overseeing other laDorers
he would not have thought OF going nome.
II be had had his pockets full OF money, II
be had been able to say, 81 have a Thousand
dollars now of my own; what's the use OF
my going back to my fathers housef &c
you think am going back to apologize %
the old MANI why he would put me on the
limits, he would not have going on around
the old place such conduct as have been
engaged in; | won't 90 home' there Is nc
reason why should go home' nave
plenty of money, plenty OF pleasant sur
rouhdings, why should ! go homer An
it was his pauperism. it was his oeggary
DE had to go home.
Some man comes and says TO me: why
do you talk about the ruined state OF tns
human soulS why don't you speak aDou'
the progress of the Nineteenth century
and talk of something more exhliaratingf
1t is for this reason: man never "ah''
the gospel until he realizes he is in fam
inc struck state. Suppose should conn
to you in your home and you are ID goou
sound, robust health, and should pegil
to talk about medicines, and about how
uluCu DeILer InlS IDtQlCAuC 10
and some other medicine than some otne
medicine, and talk about this physician
and that physician. After while yol
get tired, and you would say; Il don
want to hear about medicines. why az
you talk to me of physiciansf neVe
have doctor"
But suppose come into your house am
find you severely sick. and know tn
medicines that will cure you, and know
the physician who is skillful enough u
meet your case. You say: Bring on Una
medicine; bring on that physician l an
terribly sick, and want help" II cam
to you and you feel you are all rlght y
body, and all right in mind, and an ri1n
in soul you have need of nothing; but sup
pose | have persuaded you tnat en
leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst OF a.
sickness; oh, then you says Bring me Una
balm of the gospel; bring me that aiVih
medicament; bring me Jesus Christ
But says some one in the audlehce
How do you prove that we are IN a rulne ]:
condition by sins" Well, can prove II !
two WAYS and Won may have your cnolct