Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-25
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cverjoycd 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? win you come back? When
you come back will you come in tho
"ags of your sin, or will you come
ROBBED in the Savior's righteousness?
believe the latter Go home to your
God to-day lie is waiting for you.
Go home
But remark the characteristic Of
ly put into execution.
The context says "he arose and came
TO his father" The trouble in nine
hundred and nincty-ninc times out of
thousand is that our resolutions amount
To nothing because wo make them for
some distant time. IL | resolve to be-
come u Christian next year, that
amounts to nothing at all, II re-
solve TO become Christian tomorrow,
that amounts To nothing at all. III
resolve at the service to-day To become
n Christian, that amounts to nothing
ut all. II resolve after go home to-
day to yield my heart To God, that
amounts 10 nothing AT all, The only
kind OF resolution that amounts
10 anything Is tho resolution that Is
immediately put into execution. There
Is man who had the typhoid fever.
He snd: "Ohl IL could get over this
terrible distress; IL this fever should
depart, IL | could be restored TO health,
1 ,ypH Ia NJ h., 20 1tf.,
God" The fever departed, lie got
well enough to walk around the block.
lie got well enough to attend To busi-
ness. lie is well to-day-,S well ms he
ever was, Where IL the broken vow?
There is u man who said long ago: III
could live TO the year 1892, by
that time ! will have my business
matters all arranged, and | will have
time to attend To religion, and ! will
be II good, thorough, consecratcd Chris
tim. The year 1892 has come Jnnu-
AIRY, February, March, April, May,
June, July-.fully half of the year gone.
Where Is your broken VOW? "Ol' says
some man, "Pll attend 10 that when |
can get my character fixed up, when l
can get over my evil habits; nm now
given to strong drink" or, says the
man, II am given 10 unclcanness," or
says the man, II am given TO dishon.
esty. When ! get over my present
habits, then I'll be u 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; ~ agree with you
on ull that, but must put u off lit
Tie longer" DO you know there were
many who came just as near as you
are to the Kingdom Of God and never
entered IL?
In this country, two young men
started from their fathers house and
went down TO Portsmouth. The father
could not pursue his children; for some
reason he could not leave home, and
81 he wrote u letter down to Mr.. Crit
fin, saying; MIR, Griffin, wish you
would go and see my two sons. They
have arrived In Portsmouth and they
nrc going To take ship, and going away
from home. | wish You would per-
suadc them back" Mr.. Griffin went
hhu Ht tiWu w p'INuhuc ti'lh bu'Ns
lie persuaded ono To go, He went with
very easy persuasion because he was
very homesick already. The other
young man said, II will not 90. | have
Ind enough Of home III never go
home" well" said Mr.. Griffin, "thcn
il you won't go home, I'll get you a
respectable position on n respectable
ship" "No, you won't" said the prodi.
gal; mo, you won't, | am going as
common sailor; that will plague my
father most, and what will do most to
tantalizc and worry him will please
me best"
Years passed on and Mr.. Griffin was
seated in his study one day when u
message came to him saying there was
young man in irons on ship at
the dock-a young man condemned
To death wished TO see this clergy
man. Mr.. Griffin went down TO the
dock and went on shipboard. The
young man said to him: "You don't
know me do you?" enc" he said ~
don't know you" "Why don't you
remember that young man you tried to
persuade TO go home and he wouldn't
go?" 30! yes" said Mr. Griffin, "are
you that man?' "Ycs, ! am that man."
said the other. 81 would like to have
you pray for me. | have committed
murder and | must die; but ! don't
want to go out Of this world until some
one prays for me. You are my fathers
friend and ] would like to have you
pray for me-
Mr.. Griffin wshs from judicial author.
ity to judic;-- authority to get that
young mans pardon. He slept not
night nor day. lie went from inf luen.
tial person to influential person until
in some way he got that young mans
pardon. He came down on the dock
and as he arrived on the dock with the
pardon, the father came. He had heard
that his son under disguised name
had been committing crime and was
going to be put to death. So Mr.. Grit.
fin and the father went on ships deck,
and at the very moment Mr.. Griffin Of
fcred the pardon to the young man, the
old father threw his arms around the
sons neck and the son said: Father,
1 have done very wrong and am very
sorry. ! wish | had never broken your
heart am very sorry" "O!' said
the father, don't mention IL. II don't
make any difference now. 1t is all
over. forgive you, my son." and he
kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed
him.
To-day offer you the pardon of the
Gospel-full pardon, free pardon.sagI
do not care what your crime has been.
Though you say you have committed
crime against God, against your own
soul, against your fellow man, against
your family, against the day of judg
ment, against the cross of Christ
whatever your crime has been, here is
pardon, full pardon, and the very mo-
ment You take that pardon ysur heav.
emily Father throws his arms about you
and says: my son, | forgive you. 1t
is all right. You are as much in my
favor now as if you never had sinned."
har 10 nth tnxr IN