The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-07-17
GET HOMESICK.
Homesick for Your God, Homesick for
Heaven.
From the Innocent Country Into the wick
ed City-Dr. Tsimage's Appeal to
Young Men.

Prodigal Son, Luke xv., is: II will
arise and go to my father"
There is nothing like hunger 10 take
the energy out of man. A hungry
man can toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot There has been many ar
army defeated not so much for lack OF
ammunition as for lack of bread II
was that fact that took the fire out oil
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. traveller tells us
that In Asia Minor there arc 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 20
desperation would eat these carabs, but
generally the carabs, the beans spoken
of here in the text, were thrown only
10 the swine and they crunchcd 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 So
liloquizc. He says: "Thcsc are no
clothes for rich mans son to wear;
this is no kind OF business for jew
10 bc engaged IMPEDING swine; III go
home; I'll 90 homo l will arise and go
90 my father
] know there are great many peo-
pie who try to throw fascination. a
romance, halo about SIM but notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and Geo.
Sand have said i'm regard To IL, il il a
mean, low, contemplate business and
putting food and fodder into the trOughs
of herd of iniquities that root and
wallow in the soul Of man is very
poor business for men and women in
tended 10 be sons and daughters Of the
Lord Almighty. And when this young
man resolved to 60 home it was n very
wise thing for him 10 do, and the only
question Is whether we will follow
him. Satan promises large wages IL we
will serve him: but he clothes his vic
tins with rags, and he pinches them
with hunger, aud when they start out
10 DO better he sets after them all the
hloO.l-hnunds OF prldition. Satan comes
20 ~ to-day and he promises all luxu-
rics. all emoluments IL we will only
serve him. Liar. down with thee To
the pit. The wages of sin is death ="
o. the young man of the text was wise
when he uttered the resolution: Il will
arise and g. tn my father"
In the time of Mary. the prosecutor,
n prosecutor came toa Christian woman
who had hidden in her house for the
Lords sake one OF Christ's servants.
and the prosecutor said: "Where is
that 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 he saw glass He
said; There is no hereto here" "Ah."
she said, won look in the glass and You
will see the hereto" As take up the
mirror of Gods word to-day. would that
instead of seeing the prodigal son of
the text, we might see ourselves-our
want, our wandering, our sin, our lost
so that we might be as wise
rs this young man was and say: ~ will
arise and go TO my father"
The resolution of this text was form
ed in disgust NJ his present circum-
stances II this young man had been
by his employer set To cultivating flow
ers. or training vines over an arbor or
account 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. II he had
been able 20 say, ~ have 81, 900 now of
my own; what's the use of my going
back ~ my fathers houseP DO you
think | am going back to apologize To
the old man? Why, he would put me
on the limits; he would not have going
on around the old place such conduct
rs ] have been engaged in. won't
go home; there Is no reason why
should 60 home; have plenty Of mon
ey, plenty OF pleasant surroundings:
why should go home? Ali Il was his
il was his beggary. He had
10 go home. e
Some man comes and says IN me:
why do you talk about the ruined
state of the human soul? Why don't
you speak about the progress of the
ninetcenth century, aud talk OF some
thing more eNhilarating?' II is Tor
this reason; man never wants the
Gospel until he realizes he is i'm fam
ine-stricken state. Suppose | should
come To you in your home and you arc
In good. robust health, and should be-
gin 10 talk TO you about medicines. and
about how much better this medicine Is
than that, and some other medicine
than some other medicine. and talk
about this physician and that physician.
After awhile you would get tired, and
you would say; IL don't want 10 hear
abont medicines Why do you talk 10
NE Of physicians never have doe
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