Arizona republican., 1892-09-04

went out into the sea, went out too Tar, got beyond his depth and he fioated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one gave him a cap and another gave him a jacket and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lads clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning for the sad event.
 But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the garments arrived. He knocked at the door and the father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh, my friends, have you waded out too deeps Have you wadcd down into sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back will you come in the rags of your sin or will you come robed in the Saviours righteous ness7 l believe the latter. Go home to your God today. He is waiting for you. Go home!
 But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was, it was immediately put into execution.
 DO NOT DELAY.
 The context says ''he arose and came to his father" The trouble in nine hun dred and ninety-nine times out of thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some distant time. If l resolve to be- come d Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all If l resolve to be- come Christian tomorrow. that amounts to nothing at all. If resolve at the service today to become Chris tian, that amounts to nothing at all. If resolve after go home today to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of reso- lution that amounts to anything is the resolution that is immediately put into execution.
 There is man who had the typhoid fever. He said, "Oh, if could get over this terrible distress; if this fever should depart, if could be restored to health, I would all the rept of my life serve God" The fever departed. He got we'll enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to attend to busi- ness. He is well today-as well as h9 ever was. Where is the broken vowi There is a man who said long ago, ''If could live to the year 1892, by that time I will have my business matters all ar ranged, and l will have time to attend to religion. and l will be good thorough, consecrated Christian" The year 1892 has come. January, Febru' ary, March, April, May, June, July fully half of the year gone. Where 1; your broken VOW?
 "Oh," says some man, "Tll attend tC that when cad get my character fixed
 up; when can get over my evil habits
 am now given to strong drink" or
 says the man, II am given to unclean
 ness" or, says the man, "I an given tt
 dishonesty. When get over my pres
 ent habits. then I'll be a thorough Chris
 tian." My brother, you will get wors'
 and worse until Christ takes you il
 hand. "Eot the righteous, sinner
 Jesus came to call"
 Oh, but you say, 'I agree with you ol
 all that, but 1 must put it off littl
 longer" Do you know there were man. l ,,,ut a fn fh
 Kingdom of God and never entered it?
 was at East Hampton, Long Island. am went into the cemetery to look around
 and in that cemetery there are twelv graves side by side-the graves of sail
 ors. This crew, some years ago, in ship went into the breakers at flanagan
 sett, about three miles away. My broti
 CT. then preaching at East Hampton had been at the burial. These men c the crew came very near being saved , The people from Amagansett saw tn vessel, and they shot rockets, and the sent ropes from the shore, and thes , poor fellows got into the boat, and the pulled nightly for the shore, out jus before they got to the shore the ror : snapped and the boat capsized and the
 were lost, and their bodies afterwar i washed upon the beach.
 2 Oh, what a solemn day it was--I hay 2 been told of it by my brother-whe , these twelve men lay at the foot of th I pulpit and he read over them the funeri $ service. They came very near shore x within shouting distance of the shor
 yet did not arrive on solid land. Thel s are some men who come almost to tl a shore of Gods mercy, but not quite, nt s quite. To be only almost saved is to 1 lost.
 l LOST BEYOND REDEMPTION. . will tell you of two prodigals-tf i. one that got back and the other that di . not get back. In Richmond there is [. very prosperous and beautiful home !. many respects. A young man wanders U off from that home. lie wandereo vel T far into sin. They heard of him ofte ;, but he was always on the wrong trac U He would not go home. At the door ,, that beautiful home one night the u was a great outcry. The young man
 the house ran down and opened the do q to see what was the matter. It W ~ midnight. The rest of the family we U asleep. There were the wife and oh l T dren of this prodigal young man. T T fact was he had come home and driv - them out.
 : He said: "Out of this house. Aw T. with these children; 1 will dash tn,