Milford chronicle., 1891-06-26
the angels or Godf 1t Is news. 1t Is newsl
Christ has found the lost.
Nor angels can their Joy contain.
But kindie with new fire;
The sinner lost, Is found, they sing.
And alriln fha .onnline. LIZ.

But kindie with new fire;
The sinner lost. Is found, they sing.
and strike the sounding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked OF going int
Italy, they said "You can't ret Their
e II you knew what the Alps were yc
, wouldn't talk about it or think Of i
You can't get your ammunition Wagon
over the Alps Then Napoleon rol
in his stirrups and waving his hand t
ward the mountains be said, "TheI
shall be no Alps" That wonderful pa.
was laid out which has been the wor
derment Of all the years since-the VOL
dennent of all engineers. And 20
tell me there are such mountains of sin b,
tween your soul and God, there is u
mercy. Then see Christ waving his han
toward the mountains. / hear him say
81 will come over the mountains of thy si
and the hills Of thy iniquity" There sha
be no Pyrenees; there shall be no Alps.
Again. l notice that this resolution Of tn
young man Of the text was founded in sol
row at his misbehavior It was not Iner
physical plight. 1t was grief that he hai
so maltreated his father 1t is a sad thin
after father has done everything for
child to have that child be ungrateful.
How sharper than a sorpeuts tooth, It Is
To have u thankless child
That is Shakespeare "A foolish sol
is the heaviness Of bis mother" That i
the Bible Well, my friends have no.
some of us been cruel prodigalsg Have W,
{ Rot maltreAted our Father? And such 1
/ Fatherl So loving, so kind II he haC
been stranger, if he had forsaken us, \
I he had hagellated us, if be had pounded
as 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 apollo
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-
ton Of the text was founded in feeling
Of hOnesicEness 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 homesick 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, II would give the
world to be home tonight" Well, this
young man was homesick for his fathers
house 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 DEADp
We read nothing in this story-this par
able founded on everyday hfe-we read
nothing about the mother It says moth
ing about going home to her. / think she
was dead. think she had died of a broken
heart at his wanderngs. A man never
gets over having lost his mother. Moth
ing said about her here. But he is home
sick for his fathers house. He Thought he
would just like to 90 and walk around the
old place He thought he would just like
to go and sec If things were as they used
to be- Many man after having been off |
4 long while has gone home and knocked |
ut the door, and stranger has come. It |
Is the old homestead, but Il stranger comes (
10 the door lie finds out father is gone /
and mother is gone, and brothers and sis /
,ers all gone ] think this young man of /
he text said to himself, Perhaps father
nay be dead" Still he starts to find out
lie is homesick. Are there any here today
for God. hOmesick for heaven?
A sailor, after having been long on the
ea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to 90
way again. She said: Nov you had bet
er stay at home. Don't 90 away; we
on't want you to 20. You will have it a
reat deal better here" But it made him
ngry. The night before he went away
gain to sea he heard his mother praying
d the next room, and that made him more
ngry He went far out on the sea and
torn came up, and he was ordered to very
erilOus duty, and he ran up the ratlines,
nd amid the shrouds of the ship he heard
be voice that he had heard in the next
pom. He tried to whistle it off, lie tried
} rally his courage, but he could not
lence that voice he had heard in the next
Dom, and there in the storm and the dark
ess he said: o Lordl what a wretch | !
ave been; what wretch | am Help me
list now, Lord God" And | thought in {
lis assemblage today there may be some
no may have the memory of a fathers !
,tition or a mothers prayer pressing s
lightly upon the soul, and that this hour
icy may make the same resolution | find l
my text, saying. II will arise and 90 to c
y father" I
ILLUSTRATION OF THR RESCUED BOY. d
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle, y
ent out into the sea, went out too far, got g
yOnd his depth and he horted far away. D
ship bound for Dublin came along and
ok him on board Sailors are generally q
Ty generous fellows, and one gave him a =
p and another gave him jacket, and an 4
her gave him shoes. A gentleman pass. g
z along on the beach at Liverpool found y
"a fnrf al has nd [
e father WAS heaptbroken, the mother v
Is henrtbroken at the loss Of their child. q
they had heard nothing from him day n
.er day, and they ordered the usual ! Z
for the sad event But the lad II
,k ship from Dublin and arrived in Liv- "
Iool the very day che garments arrived. tC
knocked at the door, and the father a.
$ overjOyed. and the mother WAS over 81
ed at the return Of their lost son Oh, l
friends, have yOu waded out too deepi "
We you waded down into sim Have Il
4 waded from the shore? Will you come N
;k2 When you come back, will you fo
ne in the rags of your sin. or will you al
ne ROBBED in the Saviour's righteousnessg
elieve the latter Go home to your God pC
iiy He is waiting for You Go homel ca
but remark concerning this resolution. sa
WIS Immediately put into execution. G.
. context says, "lIe arose and came 20 fe
father" The trouble in nine hundred th
ninety times out Of thousand is CT
I our resolutions amount to nothing be- be
Sc we make them for some distant time. N
resolve to become a Christian next he
r, that amounts to Eothing ut all II alb
live to become Christian tomorrow. 70
t amounts TO nothiRG at all RIre M
re at the service tonight TO become q W
'istian, that amounts TO nothing at all. W
resolve after go home hoday to yield TH
heart to God, that amouats 10 nOshing
II. The only kind Of resolution tina:
lunts to anything is the resolution that sa'
put into execution vel
bere ia man who had the typhoid wa
II. lie said: 'Ohi IL I could get over by
terrible distressl II this fever should dis
art, il ! could be restored to health, ] de,
I'D all the rest Of my life serve Cod col
fever departed. lie got well enough wa
'alk around the block He got well aw
ugh 10 70 over 10 New York aud attend Tn
usiness He is we'll today--us well rs oui
yer was Where is the broken vowf car
re is "A man who said long ago, IF we