Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-09-02


physical plight 1t was grief that he bad %
maItreatc,l his father. II is a sad thing after
! father has done everything for i child to
have that child Lc ungrateful.
How sharper than y serpents tooth It Is
To have a thankle,S child.
That is Shakespeare "A foolish son Is
! the heavineSs OF his mother" That is the
! Bibe. Well, my friends, have not some Of
! us been cruel prodigal>! Have we not mal-
treated our Father: And such a Father
| so loving, SO kind. Ii he had been a
/ stranger, II lie had forsaken US, il he had
| nagrllated US. II he had pounded us and
/ turned ms out Of doors on the commons. il
/ would not have becu 50 wOnderful-Our
/ treatment OF him; but he is a Father so low
| ing, so kind, and yet how many Of us for
| our wAnderings have never apologiZed! We
| apologize for wrongs done TO our fellows,
| bat some of us perhaps have committed ten
thousand times ten thousand wrongs against
| GCd and never apOlogiz,d.
| remark still further that this resolution
ofthe text was founded in feeling of home
sickness | do not know how long this
youag man, how many months, how many
years, he had been away from his fathers
house, but there is something about the
reading OF my text that makes me think be
WAS h"mesick. Some Of you know what
that iCeling is. Far away from home some
time, surr Dlndei 10y everything bright aud
p'elsLnl, plenty Of friends, you have said,
, Il would give lhis world 10 lie home to-
night Well, this young man was home
sick for his fathers house. / have no doubt
when he thought OF his fathers house he
sid, Now perhaps father may not be
living"
We read nothing in this story-this para
hle founded on every day life-we read moth
ing about the mother. 1t says nothing
about going home to her. | think she was
dead | think she had died Of a broken
heart at his wanderinGs, or perhaps he had
gone into dissipation from the fact he could
not remember loving and sympathetic
mother. A man never gets over having
lost his mother. Nothing said about her
| here. But he is homesick for bis fathers
house. He thought he would just like to 60
and walk around the old place. He thought
! he would just like 10 20 and see If things
! were as they used TO be.
/ Many man after having been off long
while has gone home and Knocked at the
! G,vT. and stranger has come. II is the old
homestead, but 4 stranger comes to tie door.
| He dnds out father is gone. mother Is gone
/ and brothers and sisters all gone. think
| this Young man of the text said to himself
Perhaps father may be dead" still he
starts 10 fnd out. He is homesicK. Are
| there auy here today hOmcslck for God,
| homesick for heavenH
-
! sea, returned to his fathers house. and his
mother tried TO persuade him not to so away
| again. She said: Now, you had better stay
/ at home; don't 20 away; We don't want yUu
! to 20. You will have it great deal better
4 here" But il made him angry. The night
/ before he went away again to sea he heard
/ his mother praying In the next room, and
| tnat made him more angry. lie went far
/ out on the sea, and storm came up, and lie
/ was ordered 10 very perious duty, and he
| ran up the ratlines, aud amid the shrouds OF
I the ship he heard the voice that he had
heard in the next room.
lie tried to whistle it of; he tried to rally
| his courage; but he could not silence that
| voice he bad beard in the next room, aud
! there In the storm and darkness be said
| 20 Lord, what q wretch | have been, what
| a wretch am! Help me just now, Lord
| cod" And | thought in thi, ASscmGlnge to-
| DAY there may he some who msy have the
memory OF fathers petition or N mother
1 prayer pressing nightly upon the soul and
that this hour they may make the same rcso-
,ItiUn find In my text, saying, II Will arise
nd 20 10 my father"
lad at Literpool :. tnt out to battle,
- ent out into the sea, went out too far, got
! beyond his depth and he 1oNtei far away,
! \ ship bound for Dublin came along and
.oOk him on board SailoSs are generally
very generous fellows, aud one gave him a
/ Sap ana hnolDeT RlNt nun d JhSAcN
| Iher gave him shoes. A gentleman passing
along on the beach at Liverpool found the
lads clothes aud took them home, and the
! father was hesrtbrOken, the mother WAS
| heart broken at the loss of their child. They
had heard nothing from him day after day,
and they ordered the usual mourning or
the sad event.
! but the lad took ship from Dublin and
arrived in Liverpool the very day the gar
ments arrived. lie knocked at the door and
the father was oycrjoyei and tue mother
was overioyed at the return Of their lost son.
Oh, my friends have you wadcd out too
deep? Have you wsded down into SIN
Have you waded from the shore? VIII YOU
come back' When you come back will you
come in the rsgs of your sin or will you
come robed in the Saviours righteousness
believe the latter. Go home TO your
God today. He is waiting for you. Go
homel
but | remark the Characteristic OF this
resolution was Il was Immediately put into
execution.
The context says "hc arose and came to
his father" The trouble in nine hundred
and ninety times out of thousand i
That our resolutions amount 10 nothing be
cause we make them for some distant time
| If resolve to become Christian next year,
That amounts to nothing at all. If | resolve
| > become Christian tomorrow. that
amOants to nothing at all. II resolve nj
the service tCGHv 10 become n Christian,
that amounts to nothing at all. II | resolve
after go home today TO yield my heart to
God. that amounts to nothing at all. The
oplr kind OF resolution that amounts to any
thing Is the resolution that IS Immediately
put into execution.
There is a man who had the typhoid fever.
lie said, "Oh. If cou ID get over this terrible
distress; IL this fever should depart, il !
"a - To kaa1H I ali hn
rest of my life serve God, The fever de-
parted. He got well enough to walk around
the block. He got well enough to attend to
business. He is well today--as well as he
ever was. Where is the broken vowp There
is man who said long ago, "lf | could live
TO the year 1892, by that time will have my
business matters all arranged, and l viii
have time TO attend to religion, aud will be
good, thorough consccrated Christian. y
The year 1892 has cone. January, Febru'
ary, March, April, May, June, July-fully
half the yeNr gone. Where il your broker
ooh" says some man, "rll attend TO tuR
when can get my character fixed up; whcn
can get over my evil habits; | am nov
given to strong drink or, says the man, II
am given to uncleauncss," or, says the mau
II am given to dishonesty. When l gc
over my present habits, then I'll be {
thorough Christian" Ny brother you vii
get worse and worse until Christ takes yol
in hand. mot the righteous, sinners Jesu,
came to call"
Oh, but you say, al agree with you "t
all that, but must put of a little longti.
( Do you know there we've many who camt
lust as near as you arc TO the kingdom o
, God aud never entered it' was at Ea>
Hampton, Long Island and went into In
cemetery to >sok around, aud In that GENE
try there are twelve graves side 10y
,idC; the graves of sailors
The crew some years agn In
ship went Into the breakers at Amagansctl
about three miles away. My brother, thc'
0 rreachng at East Hampton, had been at The
i burial. These men of the crew camo yer,