Telegram-herald., 1891-06-22

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The ssnoer l0sI. Is foaht. Lbsy sing.
AID strtke TIE Sounding Tyre.
~ ben Napoleon talked Of going into
Italy. they said: -You can't zee there.
II you knew what tbs Alps ~ere you
wouldn't talk about il or thiak Of H.
You can't get your ammunition wagons
over the APPS" Then Nspoleon roea
Ia his stirrHps and waving his hand TO
ward the mountains. be said There
shall be 10 Alps" That wonderful pass
WAS laid cut which has beea the won
dermens Of all the years sinee-the won
derment Of all engineers And you
tell me there are such mountains Of sin be
tween your soul and God. there Is no
mercy. Thea l see Christ waving his hand
toward the mountains. hear him say.
Il will come over the mountains of thy sin
and the hills Of thy iniqulty." There shall
Dc no Pyrenees, there shall lie no Alps.
Again. notice that this resolution Of the
young man Of the text was founded ia sor-
row AZ his nisbehayior. IL was not mere
physical plight. = Was grief that be had
90 maltreated his father. IL Is - sad thing
after a father has done everything for a
child To have that child be unsrateful
How sharper than a s~rpent's tooth. Il u.
20 have thAlklcce child
That Is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
IL the heaviness Of hts mother" That is
the Bible. Well. my friends. have not
some Of Us been cruel prodigais' Have We
noe msltreated our Fatherf And such a
fatheri So loving. so kind. II he had
been a stranger. II he had forsaken us. II
he had nageilated US. IL be had pounded
us and turned Us out of doors on the com
mons, il would not have been so wonderful
Our treatmen. Of him; but he Is a Father
60 loving. so kind. and yet how many Of
III Cor our wanderings have never apollo
gixed. We apologize for wrongs done 20
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 a feeling
Of homesickness. don't know how long
this young man. how many months. how
many years no 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
homo sometimes, surrounded by every
thing bright and pleasant plenty OF
friends-you have said, Il would give the
world to 10 home tonight" Well. this
young man was homesick for his fathers
house. have no doubt when he thought
OF his fathers house he said, "N0w. per
Laps. father may not be living"
WAS THE PRoDIGAL's MOTHER DEApf
We read nothing in this story-this par
able founded on everyday life-we read
nothing about the mother. 1t says moth
ing about going home to her. Think she
was dead. think she b ad died OF a broken
heart at his wanderings. 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 go and walk around the
old place. lie thought he would just like
to go and see If things were as they used
TO be. Many u man after having been of
a long while has gone home aud knocked
ut the door. and a stranger has come. IL
Is tho old homestead, but n stranger comes
to the door. He finds out father is gone
and mother il gone, and brothers and sis
ters all gone. | think this young man Of
the text said to himself, Perhaps father
may be dead" Still he starts to find out
He is homesick- Are there any here today
homesick for God. homesick for heaven!
A sailor, after having been long on the
sea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to go
away again. She said: Now you had bet
ter stay at home. Don't 20 away; We
don't want you to go. You will have it /,
great deal letter here" But it made him
angry. The night before he went away
again to sea he heard his mother praying
In the next room. and that made him more
angry. He went far out on the sea and a
storm came up, and he was ordered to very
perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines,
and amid the shrouds Of the ship he heard
the voice that he had heard in the next
room He tried to whistle It of, lac tried
to rally his courage. but he could not
silence that voice he had heard in the next
room, aud there in the storm and the dark
ness he said: o Lordl what a wretch
have been; what a wretch ara. Help me
just now, Lord God" And | thought in
this assemblago today there may be some
who may have the memory of n father $
petition or a mothers prayer pressing
nightly upon the soul. and that this hour
they may make the same resolution | find
In my text. saying. Il will arise and so to
my father"
ILLUSTRATION OF THE RESCUED BOY.
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle,
went out into the sea. went out too far. got
beyond his depth and no noated far away.
A ship bound for Dublin camc along and
took him on board Sailors are generally
very generous fellows, and one gave him a
cap and another gave him a jacket, aud an
other gave him shoes. A gentleman pass
ing along on the beach ut Liverpool founal
the lads clothes and took them home, and
the father was heartbroken. the mother
was beartbroken at the loss OF their child.
They had heard nothing from him day
after day, and they ordered the usual
mourning for the sad event But the lad
took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liv-
eryool the very day the garments arrived.
lie knocked at the door. and the father
was overjoyed. aud the mother was over
joyed at the return Of their Lost son. oh,
my friends. have you vaded out too deepi
Hsvc you waded down into sin9 Have
you waded from the shorei VIII you come
backs When you come back, will you
come 10 the rags Of your sin. or will you
come robed In the Saviour's righteousness
I believe the latter Go home to your God
today. lie is waiting for you Go hOme'
But remark concerning this resolution,
IL was Immediately put into execution.
The context says. "He arose and came 10
his father" The trouble In nine hundred
and nipe.y-rine times out of a thousand Is
that our resolutions amount TO nothing be
cause we MAKE them for some distant time.
II resolve TO become Christian next
yesr. that amounts to nothing at all II
resolve 70 become Christian tomorrow.
that amounts tn nothing ct all IL re
solve 50 the service tonight 20 become a
Christian. that amounts TO nothing at all
If resolve after 90 home today 70 yield
my heart 10 God. that amounts 20 nothing
m all The only kind % resolution that
amounts 20 anything is the resolution that
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