The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-06-26
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER,


dered 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
oyerjoyed at the return of their lost
son. oh, my friends, have you waded
out too deepa Have you waded down
into SIM Have you waded from the
shore2 viii you come back2 When
you come back will you come in the
rags of your sin, or will you come ROBBED
in the Saviour's righteousness be-
lieve the latter, Go home to your God
today. He is waiting for you. Go
homel
TRUE REPENTANCE AND ODDLY REso.
LUTON,
But l remark concerning this resolu-
ton, twas Immediately put into execu-
ton. The context says, "Hearose and
came to his father" The trouble in
nine hundred and ninety-nine times out
of thousand is that our resolutions
amount to nothing because we make
them for some distant time. If re-
solve to become Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing at all. If |
resolve to become Christian tomorrow,
that amounts to nothing at all If
resolve at the service tonight to become
a Christian, that amounts to nothing at
all. If l resolve after go home today
to yield my heart to God, that amounts
to nothing at 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, ooh, if l could get
over this terrible distress, if this fever
should depart, if could be restored to
health, would all the rest of my life
serve God" The fever departed. He
got well enough to walk around the
block He got well enough to go over
to New York and attend to business,
He is well today, as well as he ever
was. Where is the broken vow2 There
is man who said long ago, IF l could
live to the year 1891, by that time !
will have my business matters arranged,
and I will have time to attend to reli
gion, and l will be a good, thorough,
consecrated Christian"
The year 1891 has come. January,
February, March, April, May, June
almost half of the year gone. Where
is your broken vow2 "Oh," says some
man, "rll attend to that when I can
get my character fixed up; when l can
get over my evil habits; lam now given
to strong drink" or says the man, 81
am given to uncleanness, or says the
man. 81 am given to dishonesty. When
l get over my present habits, then I'll
be thorough Christian" My brother,
you will get worse and worse, until
Christ takes you in hand. mot the
righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call. I"
Obi 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 Ell
tered it9 was at East Hampton and
Invent into the cemetery to look around,
and in that cemetery there are twelve
graves side by side-the graves of sail
ors. This Grew, some years ago, in q
ship went into the breakers at Amag
ansett, about three miles away. My
brother, then preaching at East Hanp
ton, had been at the burial These
men of the crew came very near being
saved
The people from Amagansett saw the
vessel, 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 capsized and
they were lost, their bodies afterward
washed up on the beach. Oil what a
solemn day it was-I have been told Of
it by my brother-when these twelve
men lay at the foot of the pulpit and
he read over them the funeral service
They came very near within
shouting distance of the shore, yet did
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 tn ha co vad at all
ONE WHO WAS NOT SAVED.
will tell you of two prodigals, the
one that got back and the one that did
not get back. In Virginia, there is a
very prosperous and beautiful home in
many respects. A young man wan
dered off from that home. He wan
dered very far into sin. They heard OF
him often, but he was always on the
wrong track. He would not go home.
At the door of that beautiful home one
night there was a great cutlery. The
/ young man of the house ran down and
opened the door to see what was the
matter. 1t was midnight, The rest Of
the family were asleep. There were
the wife and the children of this prodi-
gal young man. The fact was he had
come home and driven them out. He
said; "Out of this house. Away with
these children Twill dash their brain:
| out Out into the STORM"
| The mother gathered them up and
fed. The next morning, the brother
the young man who had stayed al
] home, went out to find this prodigal
brother and son, and he came where he
was, and saw the young man wander
ing up and down in front of the place
where he had been staying, and the
/ young man who had kept his integrity
said to the older brother: Here, what
does all this mean2 What is the matter
with your Why do you act in this
way2" The prodigal looked at him and
said who am I? Who do you take
me to beG He said, you are my
brother" mo, am not; am brute
Have you seen anything of my wife ant
childreni Are they dead9 / drove
them out last night in the storm. an
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