Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-08-26

PyreneeS, there snail De no Alps.
A lad at Liverpool went out TO battle,
went out intD the sea, went out too far,
got beyond his depth and he fioated far
away A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him on board. Sailors
are generally very generous fellows,
and one gave him a cap and another
gave him q jacket, and another gave
him shoes. A gentleman passing along
on the beach at Liverpool found the
lads clothes and took them home, and
the father was heartbroken, the mother
was heartbroken at 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
overjOyed at the return of their lost
son. o! my friends, have you waded
out too deep? Have you waded down
into sin? Have you waded from the
shore? VIII you come back? When
rags of your sin, or will you come
ROBBED in the Savior's righteousness? l
believe the latter. Go home TO your
God to-day, He is waiting for you.
Go home.
But l remark thu characteristic of
this resolution was, it was immediate
| ly put into execution.
The context says she arose and came
| TO his father" The trouble in nine
( hundred and ninety-nine times out of a
! Thousand is that our resolutions amount
| to nothing because we make them for
some distant time If l resolve TO be-
come a Christian next year, that
amounts t. &c thing at all. If l re-
so,-e TO become Christian tomorrow,
that amounts TO nothing at all. II !
resolve at the service to-day TO become
a Christian, that amounts TO nothing
at all. If ] resolve after go home to-
| day 10 yield my heart to God, that
I amounts TO nothing at all. The only
kind of resolution that amounts
TO anything is the resolution that is
Immediately put into execution. Tl.ers
is man who had the typhoid fever.
He said: "Oh! if 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 10 walk around the block.
He got we'll enough to attend to bust
ness. He is well to-day-as well as he
ever pras. Where is the broken VOW?
There is man who said long ago; IF
l could live TO the year 1892, by
that time ! will have my business
matters all arranged, and l will have
time to attend to religion, and / will
be good, thorough, consecrated Chris
tian. The year 1892 his come. Janu.
airy, February, March, April, May,
June, July-fully half of the year gone.
Where is your broken vow? 'O!' says
some man. ''I'll attend 10 that when
can get my character fixed up, when
can get over my evil habits; am now
given to strong drink" or, says the
man, II am given TO uncleanness," OF
says the man, ~ am given to dishon
esty. When 1 get over my present
habits, then I'll be a thorough Chris
! tian." My brother, you will get worse
and worse until Christ takes you in
hand. Not the righteous, sinners
Jesus came to call"
Oh! but you say: al agree with you
on all nat, but must put it off a lit
tie longer" Do you know there were
many who came just as near as YOU
are to the kingdom of God and neve,
entered it?
In this country, two young mer
started from their fathers house anc
went down to Portsmouth. The father
could not pursue his children; for some
reason he could not leave home, anC
SD he wrote a letter down to Mr.. Grit
fin, saying: Mr.. Griffin, l wish yor
would go and see my two sons. They
have arrived in Portsmouth and they
are going to take ship, and going away
from home. 1 wish you would per
suade them back" Mr.. Griffin went
and he tried TO persuade them back
He persuaded one TO go. He went will
very easy persuasion because he was
very homesick already. The other
young man said, Il will not go. / hav,
had enough of home. I'll never &c
home" "Well," said Mr.. Griffin, ether
if you won't go home, I'll get you {
respectable position on a respectable
ship" "No, you won't" said the prodi
gal; "no, you won't. l am going as {
common sailor; that will plague my
father most, and what will do most t.
tantalize and worry him will please
me best"
Years passed on and Mr.. Griffin wa.
seated in his study one day when &
message came to him saying there wa:
young man in irons on a ship a
the dock--a young man condemned
to death-who wished to see this clergy
ran. Mr.. Griffin went down to the
dock and went on shipboard. The
! young man said to him: "You don't
know me do your mo" he said, 60
don't know you" "Why, don't yot
remember that young man you tried K
persuade to go home and he wouldn''
! go?" go! yes" said Mr.. Griffin, Ear,
you that MANI" Eyes, am that man,
said the other. SsI would like To hav.