Connecticut western news., 1891-06-24
THE HOM ESlCK SOUL.
DR. TALMAGE BREACHES TO YOUNG
 MEN ON THE PRODlGA- SON.

Christ Came to Restore the Sinful-The
 Sick Need . Physician, Not the We'll.
 Affecting Instances of People Who
 Wore Almost Saved.
 BRooKLYN, June 21.-Dr. Talmage'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. Talmage called his ser mon ''The Homesick Soul" and his text was from the Prodigal Son, Luke xV, i6, sI will arise and go to my father"
 There is nothing like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toll neither with pen nor hand nor foot There has been many an army defeated not so much for lack of ammunition as for lack of bread. It 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 trav eler tells us that in Asia Minor there re-trees which bear fruit looking very much like the long bean of our time It is called the carab.
 Once in while the people, reduced to destitution, would eat these carabs, but generally the carabs, the beans 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 troughs he be- gins to soliloquize He says, These are no clothes for rich mans son to wear; this is no kind of business for a Jew to be engaged in-feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go home; will arise and go to my father"
 know there are a great many people who try to throw fascination, a TO nance, halo about sin; but notwith 
 George Sand have said in regard to it, it is a mean, low, contemptible busi- 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 women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this young man resolved to go home it was veze 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 victims with rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the blood hounds of perdition. Satan comes to us today and he promises all luxuries, all emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pitt '"'The wages of sin is death" Ohl the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution. 1T will arise and go to my father"
 NO REFORM WITHOUT SORROW.
 In the time of Mary the Prosecutor, 8 persecutor came to a Christian wom- an who had hidden in her house for the Lord's sake one of Christ's servants, and the persecutor said, "Where is that heretic2' The Christian woman said, You open that trunk and you will see the heretic." The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the trunk he saw glass He said, 'sThere is no heretic here" "Ah," she said, "you look in the glass and you will see the hereticl' AS take up the mirror of Gods word today would that instead of seeing the prodigal son of the text we might see ouselves-our want, our wandering, our sin, our lost condition, SO that we might be as wise as this young man was and say, '1 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 laborers, he would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say: II have a thousand dollars now of my own; what's the use of my going back to my fathers house , Do you think am going back to apol- ogize to the old man2 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 req son why should go home; l have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings, why should go homef' Ant it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He had to go home.
 Some man comes and says to me Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul2 Why don't you speak about the progress of the Nineteenth century, and talk of some. thing more exhilaratingl" It is for this reason: A man never wants the Gospel until he realizes he is in a famine struck state Suppose should come to you in your home and you are in good, sound, robust health, and I should be- gin to talk 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 while you would get tired and you
 would say: "I don't want to hear about
 medicines. Why do you talk to me o1 physicians2 never have a doctor"
 But suppose come into your house l and I find von aovoralv sick and