The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-26

another place: What is man that he
should be clean, and he which is born
of woman that he should be
righteous He says in another
place; There is none that doth
good; no, not one" He says in
another place: As by one man sin
entered into the world and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned-" ''Well, - you
say, IT am willing to acknowledge
that, but why should take the particu-
lar rescue that you prOPOse?" This IS
the reason: Except q man be born
again he cannot see the kingdom OF
God" This is the reason: There is
no name given under heaven among
men whereby they may be saved"
Then there are thousands of voices
here ready to say: We'll, am ready
to accept this help of the gospel;
would like to have this divine cure; how
shall go TO wOrk?' Let me say that
mere whim, an underlined longing
amounts to nothing. You must have
stout tremendous resolution like this
young man of the text when he said:
II will arise and go to my father
When Napoleon talked of going into
Italy they said: You can't get there;
if you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about or think OF it; you
can't get your ammunition wagons over
the Alps" Then Napoleon rose in his
stirrups and waving his hand toward
the mountains, he said: There shall be
no Alps" That wonderful pass was
laid out which has been the wonder
ment 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 1 see Christ waving his
hand toward the mountains; hear him
say: Il 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 sorrow at his misbehavIOr
| 1t was not mere physical plight It
was grief that he had so maltreated his
| father. It is a sad thing after father
has done everything for q child, to
have that child ungratefuL
| How sharper than q 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 prOdigals? Have we not
maltreated our Father? And such a
| father, So loving, so kind If He had
been a stranger, If He had fOrsalzen US,
if He had hage1lated us, if He had
pounded US and turned US ont of doors
on the commons, it would not have been
so wOnderful-Our treatment of him
but He is father so loving, so kind
and yet how many of US for our wan
| behring's have never apOlOgized- We
apologize for wrongs done to our fel
| lows, but some of US perhaps have
| committed ten thousand times ter
thousand wrongs against God and never
aPologized-
remark still further that this resO
luton OF the text was founded in q feel
ing of Inconsistencies don't know how
| long this young man, how many months
how many years he had been away
from his fathers house, but there i
something in the reading of my tex
that makes me think he was homesicz
We read nothing in this stOry-thi
parable founded on everyday life-w
read nothing about the mother. I
says nothing about going home to her
I think she was dead. think she Ia
died Of a broken heart at his wander
: ings- A man never gets over havin
2 lost his mother. Nothing said abOu
! | her here. But he is hOmesiclz for hi
j fathers house. He thought he woul
! just like to go and walk around the oil
2 place He thought he would just Xix
? to go and see IL things were as the
used to be
) But remark concerning this resOlU
ton, it was Immediately put into exc
d: cution- The context says: He arOs
| and came to his father" II resOly
j to become a Christian next year tina
= amounts to nothing at all If resOlv
? to become q Christian tomorrow, ths
S amounts to nothing at all. The Onl
i kind of resolution that amounts {
< anything is the resolution that is in
n mediately put into execution
!, There is a man who had the typhoi
o fever. He said: ''Oh! il I could &c
Y over this terrible distress, if this feve
:, should depart; if I could be restored
t health, I would all the rest OF my Iii
t serve God" The fever departed 3
It got well enough to walk around th
u block. He got well enough to go ove
e to New York and attend TO bushes
o He is well tO-day-as we'll as he eve
K was Where is the broken vow? TheI
IL is a man who said long ago: 'sIf
o could live until the year 1891, by thu
> time will have my business mater
:, | arranged, and viii have time to atten