The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-08

things and desperate icked" He
says. in another plsS6t What Is man
that he should be clean? snd he which
is born of woman. that he should be
righteous" He says in another place:
''There is none that doeth good, no, not
one" eH "f
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, u am willing to &C
knowledge that, but why should take
the particular rescue that you proposes"
This is the reason: Except that man
be born again he can not see
the kingdom of God" This is
the reason: There is one name
given under heaven among men.
Thereby they may be saved" Then
there are thousand voices here ready
to say: ''Well, l am ready to accept
this help Of the gospel; / would like to
have this divine cure; how shall ! 60 to
work?" Let me say that mere whim,
an underlined longing amounts to moth
GUS resolution like this young man Of
the text when he said: II will arise
and 60 to my father"
"O!" says some man, show dol know
my Father wants me? How do know,
If go back, would be received?'
"O! says some man, ''you don't know
where l have been; you don't know
how far have wandered; you wouldn't
talk that way to me if you knew all
the iniquities l have committed" What
is that hutter among the angels OF God?
It is news, it is news! Christ has found
the lost
| Nor angels can their Joy contain,
But kindle with new fre;
The sinner lost Is found, they sing.
! And strike the sounding Tyre.
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 1t or think about
it; you can't get your ammunition
wagons over the Alps" Then Napo-
leon rose in his stirrups and waving his
hand toward the mountains, he said:
'There shall be no Alps" That won
derful pass was laid out which has been
the wonderment Of all the years since
the wonderment Of all engineers. And
you tell me there are such mountains
of sin between 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 mount
aims of thy sin and the hills of thy in
iquity." 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 1t was grief
that he had so maltreated his father. 1t
is sad thing, after father has done
everything for child, to have that
child be ungrateful.
''How sharper than serpent's tooth. tits,
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 prodigals9
Have we not maltreated our Father?
And such father! So loving, SC
kind.
. If he had been stranger, If he had
J forsaken us, if he had fagellated us, II
, he had pounded us and turned us out Of
doors on the commons, it would moi
| have been so wonderful-our treatmen,
, of Him; but He is Father SO loving
! so kind, and yet how many Of us fol
I our wanderings have never apologized
. We apologized for wrongs done to oul
t fellows, but some of US, perhaps, have
, committed 10000 times 10000 wrongs
| against God and never apologized.
remark still further that this resolu
ton of the text was founded on feel
ing Of inconsistencies. don't know
, how long this young man, how man.
: months, how many years, he had beef
r away from his fathers house; but Their
r is something in the reading of my tex
t that makes me think he was homesick
l Some of you know what that feeling is
Far away from home sometimes, sur
I rounded by every thing bright AM
3 pleasant, plenty Of friends, you hav
4 said:
. II would give the world to be hom
E tonight" Well this young man wa
2 homesick for his fathers house. hav,
t no doubt when he thought Of his ia
t theirs house, he said: Nov, perhaps
l father may not be living"
l. We read nothing in this story-w
J; read nothing about the mother. 1t say
s nothing about going home to her.
d think she was dead. think she ha
died of a broken heart at his wander
J: ings. A man never gets over havin
d lost his mother. Nothing said abou
t her here. But he is homesick for hi
e fathers house. He thought he woul
= just like to 60 and walk around the oil
r. place. He thought he would just lik
e to go and see if things were as the
l. used to be. Many a man, after havin
d been off long while, has gone HON
q and knocked at the door, and a strange
g has come.
d 1t is the old homestead, but strange
Is comes to the door. He finds out faths
e is gone and mother is gone, an
k brothers and sisters all gone. thin
d. this young man of the text said to hin
d self: perhaps father may /
lr dead" Still he starts to find out Il
to is homesicl1. Are there any here t
c. day homesick for God, homesick fl
lr Heaven?
ID A sailor, after having been long c
e the sea, returned to his fathers hous
10 and his mother tried 70 persuade hi