Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-27
THE H0MESICK SOUL.
DIR. TALmaeE BREACHES TO YOUNG
MEN ON THE PRoDlcAL SON. !:

MEN ON THE PRoDiGAL SON. !,
Christ Came to Eestore the sInfui-The
Sic. Ned Physician. Not tho Well:
Affecting Instances of People Who
Wore Almost Saved.
BROOKLYN. June 21.-Dr. Ta1mage's
sermon this morning was an appeal to
young men. Numbers of these come
to the Tabernacle services, many OF
them from country homes. where they
received Christian training, Which. in
the temptations OF city life, has been
cast of. DR.. TalmaSe called bis ser
mon 1.-The Houfesick SOUL" and his
text was from the Prodigal Son, Luke
XIV, 10. Il will arise and go to MY
father.
There Is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out OF a man. A hungry
mar, can toll neitlierwith pen nor hand
! nor foot. There has been many on
army defeated not so much for Lack %
ammunition as forlack Of bread II
was that fact 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 ever heard
on earth is the cry for bread. A tray,
elcr tells us that in Asia Minor there
are trees which bear fruit looking very
much like the long bean OF our time.
1t is called the carab.
Once in willie the people, reduced
to restitution, would eat these carabs,
but generally tho carabs the bean.
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 trouglis he be-
gins to soliloquize. lie says, These
are no clothes for rich mans son to
wear; this is no kind of business for o
Jew to- be engaged in-feeding swines
I'll go home, I'll go home; will arise
and go to my father" I
know there are great many people
who try to throw fascination, O ro-
nance. halo about sin; but notwith,
standing all that Lord byron and
George Sand have said In regard to it,
It is O mean, low. contemplate bust
ness, and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of herd Of iniquities that
root and wallow IN the soul Of uan is q
very poor business for men and women
intended to be sons and daughters Of
tho Lord Almighty. And when this
young man resolved to go home 1t was
a very wise thing for him to do. and
the only question is whether We will
follow him. 3.
Satan promises large wages if We will
serve linn. but he clothes bis victims
with rags, and he plnclles them with
hunger, and when they start out to do
better he sets after them all the blood.
hounds Of pcrdition. Satan comes to
us today and he promises all lu1urics,
all cmolulnents If we will only serve
him. Liar, down with thee to the pitt
1.-THE wages Of sin is death. Obi tho
young man of the toxt was wise when
he uttered the resolution, will arise
and go to my father"
NO REFoRM WITHOUT SORROW.
In the time of Mary the Prosecutor,
q prosecutor came 10 O Christian wom-
an who had hidden In her house for
the Lords sake one Of Christ's servants,
and the prosecutor said, Where Is that
heretic2 The Christian woman said,
"You open that trunk and you will gee
the herctIc." Tho prosecutor opened
the trunk, and on the top of the linen
OF the trunk he saw glass. he said,
''There is no hereto hero. "Ah, she
said, 'syou look In the glass and you
will see the hereticl" As l take up the
mirror of Gods word today would that
instead 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, Il
will arise and go to my father"
The.resolution of this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances
If this young man had been by his en-
ployer set to culturing flowers, or train
ing vines over an arbor, or keeping ac-
count of the pork market, or oversee
ing other lnborers, he would not have
thought of going home If he had had
his pockets full Of money, if be had
been able to say: II have thousand
dollars now of my own; what's the use
of my going back to my fathers houses
Do you think am going back to apol-
ogize 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 rea-
son. why should go home; I have
plenty of money, plenty of pleasant
surroundings, why should go homer
Ali it was bis pauperism, it was his
beggary. He had to 60 home. !.
Some man comes and says to me:
why do you talk about the ruined
state of the human soul7 Why don't
you speak about the progress OF the
Nineteenth century, and talk of some
thing more exhilaratingl" 1t is for this
reason: A man never wants the Gospel
until he realizes he is in famine struck
state. Suppose should come to you
in your home and yen are in good,
sound, robust health, and should be-
gin to talk about medicines, and about
how much better this medicine Is than
that, and so,ne other medicine than
some other medicine, and talk about
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