Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22

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the beach at Liverpool found the lads
clothes and took them home, and the father
was heartbroken, the mother was heart.
broken Mt 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 Liverpool the very day the
garments arrived. He knocked at the door,
and the father WAS overjoyed and the
mother was over rjoyed at the return of their
lost son. o! my friends, have you waded
out too deep? Haye you wadcd down into
sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will
you come back? When you come back, will
you come in the rags of your sin, or will you
come robed in the Savior's righteousness?
believe the latter. Go hone to your God to-
day. He is waiting for you. Go home!
But remark concerning this resolution, it
was Immediately put into execution. The
context says "he arose and came to his
father" The trouble in 9a9 times out of
1,O00 is that our resolutions amount to
nothing because we make them for some
distant time. If l resolve TO become Chris
tian next year, that amounts to nothing at
all. If 1 resolve to become a Christian to-
morrow, that amounts to nothing at all. II
l resolve at the service tonight to become
Christian, that amounts to nothing at all:
If resolve after 1 go home to-day to yield
my heart to God, that amounts to nothing
ut all. The only kind of resolution that
amounts to anything is the resolution that
is Immediately put into execution. >,
There is a man who had the typhoid fever.
He said: '-0h! if l could get over this terrible
distress. if this fever should depart, if 1
could be restored to health, would all the
rest of my life serve God" The fever de-
parted He got well enough to walk around
the block. He got well enough to go to New
York and attend to business. He is well to-
day-as well as he ever was. Where is the
broken vow? There is man who said long
ago: IF l could live to the year 1891, by that
time will have business matters arranged,
and will have time to attend to religion,
and will be good, thorough, consecrated
Christian"
The Danger of Delay.
The year 1891 has come. January, Febru-
ary, March, April, May, June-almost half
of the year gone. Where is your broken
vow? "OhT' says some man, "Ill attend to
that when L can get my character fixed up;
when l can get over my evil habits; am
now given to strong drink or, says the
man, 81 am given to uncleanness,s or says
the man, 81 am given to dishonesty. When
/ get over my present habits, then I'll be a
Christian" My brother, you will
get worse and worse, until Christ takes you
in hand. Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus
came to call"
O! but you say: 81 agree with you on all
that, but must put it off a little longer"
Do you know there were many who came
just as near as you are to the kingdom. of
God and never entered it? l was at East
and went into the cemetery to
are u graves side by side-the graves of
sailors. This crew, some years ago, in a ship
went into the breakers mt Amagansett. about
three miles away: Ny brother then preach
ing at East Hampton, had been at the burial.
These men of the crew came very near being
saved.
The people from .Amagansett saw the YES
sci, and they shot rockets, and they sent
ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows
got into the boat, and they pulled nightly
for the shore, but just before they got to the
shore the rope snapped and the boat cap
sized and they were lost, their bodies after
n VI hat
solemn day 1t was-I have been told of it by
my brother-when these 12 men lay at the
foot of the pulpit and he read over them the
funeral service. They came very near shore
within shouting distance of the shore, yet
lid not arrive on solid land. There are some
men who come almost to the shore of Gods |
mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be only
almost saved is not to be saved at all.
The Story of One Young Man.
In England two young men started from
their fathers house and went down to Ports |
mouth. The father could not pursue his |
for some reason he could not leave |
lome and so he wrote a letter down to Mr.. |
iriflin, saying: "Mr. Griffin, l wish YOU |
would go and See my two sons. They have
rrived i'll Portsmouth and they are going |,
o take ship, and going away from home. r |
yish you would persuade them back" Mr..
back. He persuaded one to go. He went |
With very easy persuason because he was |
Tery homesick already. The other young |
IF home. I'll never go horhe." "Well,' said |
Mr.. Griffin, then if'you won't go home I'll |
get you a respectable position on respecta-
yal: "No, you won't. am going as a com
non sailor; that will plague my father most,
md what will do most to tantalize and |
worry him will please me best"
Years passed on and Mr.. Griffin was seated
n his study one day when a message came
o him that there was a young man in irons
m ship at the dock-a young man con-
clergyman. Mr.. Griffin went down to the
lock and went on shipDoard.- The young
nan said to him: you don't know me, do
ou?" NO he said, 81 don't know You"
ou tried to persuade to go home, and he
are % You that maneS aYes, sa I'm M that manu. MANN
aid the other: 81 would like to have you
ray for me. have committed murder and
must die: but don't want to go out of this
rorld until some one prays for me. You are
ny bain Iatners friend and 1 would like
irifin went from l' judicial nat authority 5;
0 judicial authority to get the
oung mans pardon. He slept not night nor
ay. He went from influential person to in
uential person until in some way he got
hat young mans pardon. He came down
n the dock and as he arrived on the dock
nth the pardon the father came He had
card that his son, under q disguised name |
ad been committing crime and was going
D be put to death. So Mr.. Griffin and the
ather went on the ships deck, and at the
cry moment r.Griffin offered the pardon to !
he young man, the old father threw his
rms around the sons neck and the son said:
Father, have done very wrong and am
cry sorry. L wish had never broken your
cart am very sorry" "O." said the |
ither, don't mention it: it don't make anv
Inference now. 1t is all over. 1 forgive
ou, my son, and he kissed him, and kissed
i'm and kissed him.
The Pardon of the Gospel
To-day offer you the pardon of the Gospel
full pardon, free pardon. 1 do not care
hat your sin has been. Though you saw
ou have committed crime against God,
galnst your own soul, against your fellow |
ian, against your family, against the day of
against the cross of Christ-what-
yer your crime HIS been, here is pardon,
~ pardon, and the very moment that you
Ike that pardon your heavenly Father
lrows His arms around about YOU and saws:
Ny son, forgive you. 1t is all right. You |
re as much in My favor now as If you had
ever sinned." o! there is joy on earth and |
y in heaven. VINO will take the Fathers
nbrace?
There was a gentleman in a rail-car who
w in that same car three passengers of
cry different circumstances. The first was |
maniac. He was carefully guarded by his !
tendants; his mind, like a ship dismasted, !
as beating against dark, desolate coast |
ON which no help could come. The train !
opped. and the man was taken out into the
'ylum to waste away, perhaps, through |
ears OF gloom. The second passenger was |.
culprit. The outraged law had seized on :
n his face were crime, depravitv and
espa1r. The train halted and he was taken | =
IL TO the penltentiary. to which he had been |
'ndemned. There was the third passenger. J
lder far different circumstances. She | =
as bride. Every hour was CAV "a q p1or
Il Er1I nd Il q,