Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-09-01
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
PRACTICAL SERMON ON THE PROD.
leAL SON.

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LONDON, Aug. a1.-Dr. Talmage has beer
preaching during the past week every day
BESIDES the engagements made IN hli
original programme for the week hs
preached In several towns which be hai
promised to visit earlier, but had been un
able to do so owing to SO much more time
Than ne expected being taken up by hii
visit to Russia, whittier he went TO attend
the distribution Of The Christian Herald
relief cargo The canceling Of these en-.
gagements caused acute disappointment
10 the eitiIns. and 30 far as possible DR..
Talmage has yielded to their entreaties tc
fix Slater date. The audiences last week
at LeedS, Bradford. Sheffield and Derby
were enormous. and ct each place the pop-
ular ovation In the streets was most en-.
thusiastic. The sermon selected for pub
hcation this week Is from the text, Luke
~, IL y VIII 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 30
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 time.
1t Is called the carab. Once in awhile the
people reduced to destitution 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 ayidity. 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 rich
mans son to wear; this Is no kind of
business for Jew to be engaged in-feed-
ing swine; I'll go home; I'll 60 home; will
arise and 60 to my father"
know there are great many people
who try to throw fascination, romance,
q halo about sin; but notwithstanding ali
that Lord Byron and George Sand have said
in regard to 1t, it is mean, low, contempt
ible business, and putting food and fodder
into the troughso 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 AL
mighty. And when this young man re
solved to go home it was very wise thing
for him to 10, and the only question 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 bIoodhounds Of hell,
Satan comes to us today and he promises
all luxuries, all emoluments IL 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, 81 will arise and
60 to my father"
SEE YOURSELF AS IN A GLASS.
In the time Of Queen Mary of England
prosecutor came to q Christian woman
who had hidden in her house, for the Lords
sake, one Of Christ's servants, and the per
secutor said, "Where is that heretici'
The Christian woman said, "You open
that trunk and you will see the hereto" I"
The prosecutor opened the trunk, and on
the top of the linen of the trunk he saw q
glass. He said, '"Tbere is no hereto here ~
"AhW she said, ''you look In the glass and
you will see the hereticp' As I take uu
the mirror of Gods word today, / would
that instead of seeing the prodigal of the
text We might see ourselves-our want,
our wandering, our sin, our lost condition
30 that we might be as wise as this young
man was and say, II will arise and 20 to
my father"
The resolution Of this text was formed
IN disgust at his present circumstances.
II this young man had been by his employ
er set to culturing flowers, or training
vines over an arbor, or keeping account of
the pork market, or overseeing other labor
ers he would not have thought of going
home II he had had his pockets full OF
money, il he Lad been able to say: II have
thousand dollars now of my own; what's
the use Of my going back to my fathers
houses Do you think am going back to
apologize to the old mana Why, he would
put me on the limits; he would not have
going on around the old place such con-
duct as have been engaged In. won't
go home There Is no reason why should
60 home. have plenty of money; plenty
Of pleasant surroundings Why should
go homep Ahl 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 souli Why don't you speak about
the progress Of the Nineteenth century, and
talk OF something more exhlaratings" 1t
Is for this reason--a man never wants the
Gospel until 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 bet
ter 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, 81 don't want to
hear about medicines. Why do you talk
to me Of physiciansi I never have doc
tor"
Suppose I come into your house and end
you severely sick, and I know the medi.
cines that will cure you, and I know the
physician who Is skillful enough to meet
your case. You say: Bring on all that
medicine; bring on that physician. am
terribly sick and / want help" II 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 sup
pose have persuaded you that the leprosy
Of sin is upon you, the worst Of all sick
ness, oh. then you soy, Bring me that
balm Of the Gospel; bring me that divine
medicament; bring me Jesus Christ"
OUR RUINED CONDITION.
But says some one In the audience,
Elbow do you prove that we are in ruined
condition by sinp Well, I can prove 1t in
two ways, and you may have your choice
] can prove 1t either by the statements oi
men or by the statement Of God Which
shall it bes You all say, let us have the
statement Of God" Well. he says in one
place, "The heart is deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked" he says
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