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That Leadeth TO Repentance.
BRooKLYN, June 81 DR. Talmage's ser
mon this morning was an appeal to young
men. Numbers Of these come to the Tab
ernacle services. many Of them from coun
try homes, where they received Christian
training, which, in the temptations Of city
life, has been cast off DR. Talmage called
his sermon "The Homesick Soul" and his
text was from the parable OF the prodigal
son. Luke XIV lS 81 will arise and go to
my father"
There is nothing like hunger TO take the
energy out of a man A hungry man can
toll 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. 1t was that fact tnat 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
MS that in Asia Minor there are trees which
bear fruit looking very much like the long
bean of our time II is called the carab.
Once in while the people reduced to
destitution would eat these carabs, but
generally the carabs, the beans spoken Of
mere III bnc JcAbs htiO OhiONh ChAJ w eHS
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 troughs
he begins to solloquize He says "These
are no clothes for a rich mans son to wear
this il no kind of business for Jew to be
engaged in--feeding swine, Tll go home,
iii 20 home, | will arise and go TO my
father"
! know there are a great many people
who try to throw a fascination, romance,
a halo about sin, but Notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron aud George Sand have
said in regard to it it is 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 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 II we will
serve him, but he clothes his victims with
rags, and he pinches them with hunger,
and when they start out to do better he
sets after them all the bloodhounds of per
dition. Satan comes to us today and he
promises all luxuries, all emoluments If
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 go to my father"
In the time of Mary the Prosecutor, a
prosecutor came to 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 hereticP The
Christian woman said, you open that
trunk, and you will see the heretic." The
prosecutor opened the trunk, and on the
ton of the linen of the trunk he saw glass.
He said, "rhere is no hereto here" "Ah,"
she said, 'you look in the glass, and you
will see the hereticl" 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 condition-so
that we might be as wise as this young |
man was, and say, II will arise and go 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 ON arbor or keeping account of the
pork market or overseeing other laborers
he would not have thought of going home
If he had had his pockets full Of money, If
he had been able to say, ~ have a thousand
dollars now of my own; what's the use Of
my going back TO my fathers housef do
you think am going back 10 apologize TO
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 go home, there is no
reason why ! should go home, have
plenty of money, plenty of pleasant sur
roundings, why should | go home" Ahl
il was his pauperism. II was his beggary
He had to go home
Some man comes and says 10 mei "Why
do you talk about the ruined state of the
human souli why don't you speak about
the progress of the Nineteenth century,
and talk Of something more eXhilaratingp
IL is for this reasons A man never wants
the gospel until he realizes he is in fam
inc struck state. Suppose | should come
TO you in your home and you are in good,
sound, robust health, aud should begin
To talk about medicines, and about how
much better this medicine is than that,
and some other medicine than some other
medicine, aud talk about this physician
anu NhaN HMlolAAtAAl. AAASI ~ MuAAt you
get tired, and you would say 81 don't
want to hear about medicines. Why do
you talk to me OF physiciansS | never
have a doctor"
But suppose come into your house aud
] find you severely sick, and ! know the
medicines that will cure you, and know
the physician who is skillful enough to
meet your case. You say; Bring ON that
medicine. bring on that physician am
terribly sick. aud want help" II came
70 you aud you feel you are all right in
body, aud all right in mind, aud all right
In soul you have need OF nothing; hut sup
pose have persuaded you that the
leprosy Of sin Is upon you. the worst Of all
sickness; OH then you say; Bring me that
balm OF the gospel; bring me that divine
madicament; bring me Jesus Chyist.'
But says some one In the audience,
.IIow do you prove that we are in a ruined
condition by sinf" Well, can prove it IN
two ways. and You may have your choice.
can prove Il by the statements OF men OF
by the statement Of God. Which shall Il
bef You all say. "l.et us have the state
ment Of God" Well, he says In one place
's'rhe heart Is ieceitful above all things and
desperately wicked lie says Ia another
place, "What Is man that be should b
cleanf aud he which Is born OF woman
that be should be righteousr lie says Il
another place There IL none that doetl
good, no not ONE He says In anothe
place "As by one nap ain entcreth int.
the world. and death by siu. and -
death passed upon an men. for tha
ali have sinned "Well' you LAY, II an
willing 70 acknowledge that. hnt VIII
should take the particular rescue tha