Connecticut western news., 1892-08-25
THE HOMESICK SOUL.
pR. TAlMAGE DRAWS MANY LESSONS
 FROM THE PRoDlGAl SON.

pR. TALMAGE DRAWS MANY LESSONS
 FROM THE PRoDlGAL SON. Inc Pleasures of Sin Are but for a Season, and Vile, Unworthy Pleasures at That. Only in Righteousness Can the Human Heart Find Any Real satisfaction.
 LONDON, Aug. 21.-Dr. Talmage has been preaching during the past week every day. Besides the engagements made in bis original programme for the week he preached in several towns which he had promised to visit earlier, but had been unable to do so, owing to 70 much more time than he expected be- ing taken up by his visit to Russia, whither he went to attend the distribu- ton of The Christian Herald relief cargo. The canceling of these engage ments caused acute disappointment to the citizens, and as far as possible Dr. Talmage has yielded to their entreaties to fix later date. The audiences last week at Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Derby were enormous, and at each place the popular ovation in the streets was most enthusiastic. The sermon selected for publication this week is from the text, Luke xv, IS, 'I will arise and go to my father"
 There is nothing like hunger to take tho energy out of man. A hungry man can toI 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 traveller tells us that in Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit looking very much like the long bean of our Ems. It is called the carab. Once in awhile the people reduced to destitution would eat these carabs, but generally tho carabs, the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine and they crunched them with great svidity. But this young man of my text could not get even them without stealing them. So one day amid the swine troughs he begins to soliloquize. He says, "These are no clothes for 8 rich mans son to wear; this is no kind of business for Jew to be engaged in feeding swine; I'll go home; I'll go home; will arise and go to my father"
 FOOLS MAKE MOCK AT BIN.
 know there are 8 great many people who try to throw Q fascination, 8 TO- nance, . halo about sin, but notwith- standing all that Lord Byron and George Sand have said in regard to it, it is 8 mean, low, contemptible 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 intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this young man resolved to go home it was 8 very wise thing for him to do, and the only ques- uon is whether we will follow him.
 Satan promises large wages if we will ssrve 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
 
 day 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" Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution, II will arise and go to my father"
 In the time of Queen Mary of Eng land prosecutor came to Christian woman who had hidden in her house for the Lords sake one of Christ's servants, and the persecutor said, "Where is that hereticY' The Christian woman said, "You open that trunk and you will see tho heretio." The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the trunk he saw glass. He said, "There is no heretic here." "Ah," she said, ''look in the glass and you will see the heretic." As take up the mirror ot Gods Word today would that instead of seeing the prodigal of tho text we might see ourselves-our want, our wan. dering, our sin, our lost condition-se that we might be as wise as this young man was and say, "I will arise and ge to my father"
 
 in disgust at his present circumstances If this young man had been by his em ployer set to culturing flowers, or train ing vines over an arbor, or keeping ac count of the pork market, or overseeing other laborers, he would not hay, thought of going home. If he had hae his pockets full of money, if he had bee, able to say: "I have thousand dollar now of my own. Whats the use of m, going back to my fathers house? D, you think am going back to apologiz to the old man? Why he would put m on the limits. He would not have goin, have been engaged in. I won't g homo; there Is no reason why shoul' go homo. I have plenty of money plenty of pleasant surroundings, wh, should go homeY Ahl it was his pau perim, 1t was his beggary. He had t < TO home.
 B MAN IN LOST CONDITION?
 Some man comes and says to me "Why do you talk about the ruine' state of the human soul? Why don you speak about the progress of the Mine iesnth century and talk of somethin moro exhilaratingr It is for this reason A man never wants the Gospel until h realizes he is in famine struck state Suppose should come to you in you home, and you are in good, robus health, and should begin to talk abou medicines, and about how much bette this medicine is than that, and som othor medicine than some other med oine, and talk about this physician an that physician. After awhile yo would get tired, and you would say: don't want to hear about medicine Why do you talk to me of physiciansa mover have doctor"
 Suppose I come into your house and find you severely sick, and I know tf