Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-08-26
HIS LATEST SERMON.
TALMAOE STILL PREACHING
IN ENGLAND.
Hungrs and HomesIck Furnishes Him
with n Subject from Which lie Draws
n Graphic PIcture-''I VIII Arise and
Go to NY Father"

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. ~
was that fact that took the fire out OF
this young man of the text. Storm and
exposure will wear out any mans life
i'm time, but hunger makes quick work.
The most awful cry ever heard on earth
is the cry for bread.
Satan premises largL wages If we
will serve him: but he clothes his vic
Tins with rags and he pinches them
with hunger, and when they start out
to do better he sets after them all the
blooohounds OF hell. Satan comes to
us to-day and he promises all luXuries,
all emoluments, ii we will only serve
him. Liar, down with thee TO the pit!
"The wages of sin is death" Oh, the
young man of the text was wise when
he uttered the resolution: II will arise
and go 10 my father"
In the time of Queen Mary of Eng
land a prosecutor caTe TO a Christian
woman who had hidden in her house
for the Lords sake one of Christ's ar
wants, and the prosecutor said: where
is that heretic?" The Christian woman
said; "YoN open that trunk and you
will see the hereto" The prosecutor
opened tho tl'nl; and on the top of the
linen of the trunk HI saw glass. He
said: There is no l. eretic here" "Ah!'
she said, ''vou look in the glass and
YOU will see the hereticw AS / take
up the mirror of Gods sword to-day, l
would that instead of seeing the pro3i-
gal of the text, we might see ourselves
our want, our wandering, Oui sin,
our lost condition, so that we night
be as wise as this young man wss and
say: 81 will arise and go to my
father"
The resolution of this text was
formed in disgust at his present cir
cumstances. If this young man had
been by his employer set TO culturing
flowers, or training vines over an arbor,
or keeping account Oh the pork market,
or overseeing other laboyers, he would
not have thought of going home. If
he had had his pockets full
of money, if he had been able
TO say. II have a thousand dollars
now Of my own; what's the use of my
going back to my fathers house? Do
you think am going back TO apollo
gize 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 / have been engaged
in; won't go home; there is no reason
why should go home; / have plenty
of money, plenty of pleasant surround
ings, why should go home?" All! il
was his pauperism, it was his beggary.
He had 10 go home.
Some man comes and says TO me,
"Why do you talk about the ruiled
state of the human soul? Why don't
you speak about the progress of the
nineteenth century, and talk of some
thing more eXhilarating?" 1t is fol
this reason; man never wants the
gospel until he realizes he is in q
famine-struck state. Suppose l should
come TO you in your home and you
are in good health, robust health, and
/ should begin to talk about medicines
and about how much better this medi
cine is than that, and some other medi
cine than some other medicine, and
talk about this physician and that
physician. After while yor
would say; 81 don't want tC
hear about medicines. Why
do you talk to me OF
physicians? l never have a 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 sltilfu
enough TO meet your case. You say
"BriDg on all that medicine, bring on
that physician. am terribly sick anC
/ want help" If i came to you anC
you feel you are all right in body anc
all right in mind, and all right in soul
you have need of nothing; but suppose
/ have persuaded you that the leprosy
of sin is upon you, the worst Of al
sickness, o! then you say: Bring me
that balm of the gospel, bring me thai
divine medicament, bring me Jesus
Christ"
But" says some one in the audience
show do you prove that we are in 9
ruined condition by sin?' Well, l car
prove it in two ways, and you may ha "
your choice. can prove it either by
the statements of men, or by the stals
ment of God. Which shall it be? You
all say, "let us have the statement o.
God" Well, he says in one place: ''tht
heart is deceitful above all things, anC
desperately wicked" He says in an
other place: "what is man that hi
should be clean? and he which is born o.
a woman, that he should be righte
ous?" He says in another place
there is none that doeth good, No
not one" He says in another place
''as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so deatl
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned."
When Napoleon talked OF going into
Italy, they said: '.You can't get there
If you knew what the Alps were YOU
wouldn't talk about it or think of It
you can't get your ammunition wagons
over the Alps" Then Nap )leon rose
in his stirrups and waving his hand
I toward the mountains he said. UThare