The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-09-07
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Rags and Hunger the Wages Paid by
Satan.
Tho Hounds of Hell Started After All
Who Refuse the Emoluments
of Their Services.

i Will arise ana go 10 my 1atner.
There is nething like hunger to take
the energy out of man. A hungry
man can toll 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. 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 was the cry for bread.
A traveller tells us that in Asia Minor
there are trees which bear fruit very
much like the long bean of our time.
1t is the carab tree. Once in while
the people, reduced to restitution,
would eat these carabs, but generally
these carabs, the beans spoken of here
in the text, were thrown only to the
swine, and they crushed them with
great avidity. But this young man of
my text could not get even them with
out stealing them. So one day, amid
the swine troughs, he began to solilo-
quize. He says: 'These are no clothes
for rich mans son to wear; this is no
kind of business for a Jew to be en-
gagged IMPEDING swine. I'll go home;
I'll go home. l will arise and go to my
father"
know there are great many people
who try 10 throw fascination, a ro-
nance, halo about sin; but, notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to it, it is a
mean, low, contemplate business, and
putting food and fodder into the
troughs of herd of iniquities that root
and wallow in the oul of man is very
poor business for men and women in
tended to be sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty. And when this
young man resolved to go home, it was
very wise thing for him to do. 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 blood
| hounds of hell Satan comes to us to-
day and he promises all luxuries, all
emoluments if we will only serve him.
Liar, down with thee to the pit! "rhe
wages of sin is death" Oh! the young
man of the text was wise when he ut
tered the resolution: 81 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 serv-
ants, and the prosecutor said: "Where
| is that heretic?" The Christian woman
said: You open that trunk and you will
see the hereto" The prosecutor open
ed the trunk, and on the top of the
linen of the trunk he saw glass. He
said: ''There is no hereto here" "Ah!'
she said, you look in the glass and you
! will see the hereticw AS take up the
mirror of Gods word to-day, l 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: 81 will
arise and go to my father"
The resolution of this text was form
ed in disgust at his present circum-
stances. If this young man had been
by his employer set to culturing flow.
ers, or training vines over an arbor, or
keeping accounts 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, 81 have thousand
dollars on my own account; what's the
use of going back to my fathers house?
Do you think am going back to apol-
ogize to the old man? Why, he would
put me on the limits; he would not
have going on around the old places
such conduct as l have been engaged
In; won't go home; there is no reason
why l should go home; l have plenty of
money, plenty of pleasant surround
ings 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 nineteenth century, and
talk of something more exhilarating?'
1t is for this reason: A man never wants
the Gospel until he realizes he is in a
famine-struck state. Suppose should
come to you in your home, and you are
In good, robust health, and should be-
gin 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 "a while you
would get tired, and you would say: 81
don't want to hear about medicines.
Why do you talk to me of physicians?
l never have DOCTOR" Suppose come
into your house and find you severely
sick, and l know the medicines that
will cure you, and know the physician
who is skillful enough to meet you
case. You say: Bring on all that med
icine, bring on that physician, am ter
ribly sick and want help" If l come
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 that have persuaded you
that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the
worst of all siclxnesses. Oh! then you
say: Bring me that balm of the Cos
pei; bring me that Divine medicament
bring me Jesus Christ"
But, says some one in the audience
GLOW do you prove that we are in 8