Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-25
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PRACTICAL DISCOURSE ON THE
PRODlGAL SON.
Sin Is a Mean Contemplate Thing at
All Times, and the Promises OF Satan
Are Never Observation-Disclosures Always
DANGEROUS.
Preaching in Europe.

| dienceS last week at LEEDS, BfaulOId,
| Sheffield and Derby were enormous, ana
at each place the popular ovation IN the
| streets was most enthusiastic. Ihe SER
mon selected for publication this week Is
| from the text. Luke XIV, IL, ~ Will arise
and go to my father. :"
There is nothing like hunger to take
| the energy out of man. A hungry
| man can toll neither with pen nor hand
| nor foot. There has been an army
| defeated not so much for lack of ammu-
| milton as for lack of bread. 1t 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
| time. 1t is called the carab. Once in
| while the people reduced to restitution
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 get even them without stealing them.
| So one day, amid the swine troughs he
| begins to soliloquize. He says, ''These
are no clothes for a 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
[ know there are great many people
| who try to throw a fascination, ro-
| nance, halo about sin; but notWlth-
! standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to it, it is
| mean, low, contemplate business, and
| putting food and fodder into the troughs
| of herd of iniquties that root and wal
| low in the soul of man is very poor bust
| ness for men and women intended to be
| sons and daughters of the Lord AL
mighty. And when this young man re-
| solved to go homo it was very wise
thing for him to do, and the only ques-
ton 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 hell. Satan comes to us to-
| day and he promises all Injuries, all
emoluments if we will only serve him.
| Liar, down with thee to the pit! THE
wages of sin is DEATH" Oh, the young
| tered the resol ton, II will arise and go
| to my father
| In the time of Queen Mary of England
| a prosecutor came to Christian woman
who had hidden in her house, for the
| Lords sake, one of Christ's servants,
| and the prosecutor said. "Where is that
| heretic?" The Christia woman said,
''You open that trunk and you will see
| the hereto" The prosecutor opened
| the trunk, and on the top of the linen Of
| a trunk he saw glass. He said,
| There is no hereto here" 'Ah!'' she
| said, ''you look in the glass and you will
| see the heretlc!'' AS I take up the mir
ror of Gods word to-day, I would that
instead of seeing the prodigal of the text
we might see ourselves-our want, our
| wandering, our sin, our lost condition
| so that we might be as wise as this young
man was and say, Il will arise and go to
my father.'
The resolution of this text was
| formed in disgust at his present circum-
stances. If this young man had been
by his employer set to cultivating
| flowers, or training vines over all ar
| Dor, or keeping account of the pork
market, or overseeing 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: IL have a
| thousand dollars now of my own; what's
the use of my going back to my fathers
house? Do you think l am going back
to apologize to the old man? Why, he
| would put me on the limits; he
would not have going on around the old
| place such conduct as I have been en-
gagged in. l won't go home. There is
no reason why l should go home l
have plenty of money; plenty of pleasant
surroundings. Why should go home?"
All! 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 soul? Why don't you
speak about the progress of the Nine
| tenth century. and talk of something
more exhilarating?" It is for this rea-
| soma man never wants the Gospel un-
| til he realizes he is in famine struck
state. Suppose should come to you
| in your home and you are in good
| robust health, and / should begin 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 awhile you
would get tired, and you would say, II
| don't want to hear about medicines.
| Why do you talk to me of physicians? /
| never have DOCTOR"
Suppose [ come into your house and
find you severely sick. and know the
medicines that will cure you, and / know
| the physician who is skillful enough to
meet your case. You say: Bring on
all that medicine; bring on that phv-
stefan. | am terribly sick and I want
help" If | came to you and you feel
you are all right in body and all right in
mind and all right in soul you have need
OF nothing; but suppose l have persuaded
you that the leprosy of sin IS upon you,
| the worst of all sickness, oh. then you
say. Bring me that balm of the Gospel:
bring me that divine medicament; bring
me Jesus Christi
| But says some one in the audience.
''How do you prove that we are in
ruined condition by sin?'' We'll can