The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-26
TO YOUNG MEN.
Able Appeal to Young Men By Rev.
7. Dewitt TaImage.
The Wages OF SIN Ever Bad-Christ Always
Ready to Receive the Returning ProdI-
gaI-The Danger of Delays
Gospel Pardon.

lew L G1LndgS especially Gp)SdlSC
young men His subject was The
Homesick Soul and his text was from
the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Luke Ky Is: II will arise and go to
nay father" Dr. Talmage said:
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out of d man hungry man
can toll neither with pen nor hand nor
foot There has been many an army
defeate not so much for lack OF ammu-
milton as for lack OF bread Itw that
fact that took the fire ont of this young
man of the text. Storm and exposure
viii 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 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 while the
people reduced to restitution would eat
these carabs, but generally the carabs,
the beans spoken of here in the text.
were thrown only to the swine and
they erunched them with great avidity-
But this young man of my text could
Snot even get them without stealing
them So one day amid the swine
trOughs he began TO solifoquize- He
says: These are no clothes for rich
mans son to wear; this is no kind of a
business for a Jew to be engaged in
feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go
AiOAACS L " Al III anu fsO W AdILSEs
know there are great many people
who try to throw a fascination. a rO-
nance, a halo about sin; but nOtwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and
George Sand have said in regard to it,
1t is a mean, low, contemplate bust
ness, and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of a herd of iniquities that
root and wallow in the soul of man is
a very poor business for men and wO-
men intended to be sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty. And when this
young man resolved to go home it was
very wise thing for him to do, and
the only question is whether we will
follow him
Satan promises large wages if we
will serve him; but he clothes his vic
Tins in rags, and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they start out to dc
better he sets after them all the blood
hounds Of perditiOn-
In the time of Mary, the prosecutor
q prosecutor came to a Christian wo
man who had hidden in her house for
the Lords sake one of Christ's servants
and the prosecutor said: where /.
that heretic?" The Christian woman
said: You open that trunk and yOl
viii see the hereto" The persecutO
opened the trunk, and the tot
of the linen of the trunk hi
saw a glass He said: There i
no hereto here ssAh." she said ssyol
.
hereticI" AS I take up the mirror O
Gods work to-day, would that insteat
OF seeing the prOdigal son of the text
:. we might see ourselves-our want, gu
wandering, our sin, our lost condition
so that we might be as wise as thi
young man wss and say: ''I will arts
and go to my father
The resolution of this text was forme
Tin disgust at his present circumstances
If'this young man had been by his en-
'PloyeE set 70 culturing flowers, or trair
ing vines over an arbOr, or keeping az
: count OF the pork market. or overseein
other labOrers, he would not hav
thought Of going home If he had ha
5his pockets full of money; if he ha
been able to say: II have a thousan
- dollars now of my own; what's the us
of my going back to my fathers house
Do you think am goi>4y back to apollo
gize to the old man?" All! it was hi
beggsry. He had 20 go home.
Some man comes and says to me
why do you talk about the RUNE
state of the human soulP Why don't yO
speak about the progress of the nine
-teenth century, and talk of somethin
more exhilarating?" 1t is for tn
reason: A man never wants the Rosps
until he realizes he is in a famine Struc
state Suppose should come you
your hOFoe and you are in good. sount
robust health, and I should begin
talk about medicines, and about no
much better this medicine than tina
and talk about this physician and thu
physician After awhile you would g
tired, and you would say: 81 don't wal
TO hear about medicines Why do yo
talk to me of physicians? never hay
a doctor" But suppose I come int
your house and find you severely sic
and I know the medicines that wi
cure yor and know the physician WI
IS sIxilIful enough to meet your cas-
You say: Bring on that medicin
bring on that physician am terrib
ssiclz and / want help" If I came
,yod and you feel you are all right
body, and all right in mind, and {
right in soul, you have need of nOthin
but suppose have persuaded you tn
the Ieprosy of sin Is upon you. Z
worst OF all sickness o. then you sa
hahn of he cToSD.