The Red Cloud chief., 1891-07-03
TO YOUNG MEN.
Able Appeal TO Young Men By Rev.
7. Dewitt Talmage.
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In . late sermon ut Brooklyn Rev. +.
Dew Talmage especially appealed TO
young men His subject wss The
Homesick Soul" and his text was from
the Parable of the Prodigal Son"
Luke Nv. 1s: II will arise and 20 70
my father" DIR. Tslmage said:
There is nothing like hunger TO take
the energy cut of Q man A hungry msn
can toll neither with pen nor hand nor
foot There has been many IN army
defeated not SO much for lack Of ammu-
milton Is for lack Of bread. was that
TACT 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 eyer heard on earth n
the cry for bread. A traveller tells Us
hat in Asia Minor there are trees
which bear fruit looking very much
like the long bean of our time. Ii il
called the carab. Once ia q while the
people reduced TO restitution would eat
these carabs, but generally the carabs,
the beans spoken of here in the text
were thrown only TO the swine and
they crunched them with great avidity.
But this young man Of my text could
not even get them without stealing
them. So one day amid the swine
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say S: These are no clothes for . rich
mans son TO wear; this is no kind of .
business for a jew TO be engaged in
feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go
home; ! will arise and go TO my father"
know there are a great many people
who try TO throw a fascination, q TO
nance, a halo about sin; but notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and
George Sand nave said in regard to il,
it is q a low. contemplate bust
ness, and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of q herd of iniquities that
Dol and wallow in the soul of man is
a very poor business for men and wo-
men intended to be Sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty. And when this
young nan 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 IL W.
will serve him; but he clothes his vic
hunger, and whs they start out TO do
better he sets after them all the blood
hounds Of perdition-
In the time Of Mary, the prosecutor.
a prosecutor came 10 q Christian wo-
man who had hidden in her house for
the Lords sake one Of Christ's servants.
and the prosecutor said: where is
hat heretic?" The Christian woman
said: You open that trunk and you
will see the hereto" The prosecutor
opened the trunk. and on the top
of the linen Of the trunk ne
saw a glass. He said: There is
no hereto here" 'Ah." she said, you
look in the glass and you will see the
heretic" As I take up the mirror of
Gods work to-day. would that instead
of seeing the prodigal son of the text,
we might see O~urselves-our want u
wandering, u sin, our lost condition,
so that we might he rs wise rs this
young man was and say: II will arise
and go TO my father"
The resolution of this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances
II this young man had been by his en-
ployer set to culturing flowers, or train
ing vines ove an arbor, or keeping ac-
count Of the pork market, or overseeing
other laborers, he would not have
thought of going home. II he had had
his pockets full Of money; il he had
been able TO say: II ave a Thousand
dollars now of my own; what's the use
Of my going back to my fathers house?
Do you think ] am going back TO apollo
gize to the old man." All! 1t was his
beggary. He had To go home.
Some man comes and says to me:
''Why do you talk about the ruined
state Of the human soul? Why don't you
speak about the progress of the nine
tenth century. and talk of something
more exhilarating?" II is for this
reason: A man never wants he gospel
until ne realizes he is in a famine struck
state. Suppose ! should come toyou in
your home and you are in good, sound,
robust health. and I should begin to
talk about medicines. and about how
much better this medicine than that
and talk about this physician and that
physician After awhile you would get
tired, and you would say: 81 don't want
to hear about medicines Why do you
talk TO me OF physicians? Inever have
a doctor" But suppose l come into
your house and find you severely sick
and ! know the medicines hat will
cure you and I know the physician who
is skillful enough to nee your case.
You say: Bring on that medicine,
bring on hat physician. am terribly
sick and l want help" I'll came 70
yoI and you feel you are all right in
body, and all right in mind. and all
right in soul. you have need Of nothing;
but suppose l have persuaded you that
the leprosy Of sin Is upon you, the
worst of all sickness o, then you say:
Bring me that balm Of the gospel,
bring me that divine ~medicament
bring me Jesus Christ"
But" SAYS some one in the audience,
''how do you prove that we are in q
ruined condition of SIM" Well, I can
ptoNC ~ "a WV ~ NOu Auoy navy
your choice / . prove il either by
the statements of men or by the state
ment Of God Which shall it be? You
all say: Let us have the statement
Of God" Well. he says in one place:
THE heart is deceitful above al things
and desperately wicked" He saws in
another place: what is man that he
should be clean, and he which is horn
Of q woman that he should be
r~ighteous?" He says in another
place: There is none hat doth
good; no not one" He q in
another place: AS by one man sin
entered int the world and death BY
sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that AL have sinned" "wer.- you
say, II am willing TO acknowledge
that. but Why should I take the par,ieu-
lar rescue that you propose?- This b
the esson Except . man be born
again he cannot see the kingdoa Of
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