Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-08-27
THE PRODIGAL SON.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Wages of Sin.
Affect Want Often Needed to Bring Mon
to Repentauce-with Plenty Man Is
often Arrogant. But Poverty
Compels Him to Pause.

Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, continue.
his preaching to thousands of interest.
ed hearers in England. In the --latest
sermon selected for publication Dr. Tai
mage took his text from Luke Nv. iS
II will arise and so to my father" He
said:
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 many an
army defeated not so much for lack Of
ammunition rs for lack of bread. II
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 This is named the carab Once
in awhile the people reduced to destitu-
ton would eat these carabs, but geuer-
ally the carabs, the beans spoken of
here in the text, were thrown only to
the swine and they crunched 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 begins to solilo-
quize. He says: "These are no clothes
for rich mans son TO wear; this is no
kind of a business for jew to be en-
gagged IMPEDING swine; I'll go home;
I'll go home; will arise and go to my
father"
know there are great many people
who try to throw fascination. ro-
nance, halo about sin; but notwith-
standing all that Lord byron and
George Sands have said in regard to it,
it is mean. low, contemplate bust
ness, and putting food and fodder into
herd of iniquities that root and wal
low in the soul of man is very poor
business for men and women intended
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 ques-
ton is whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large 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
bloodhounds of hell. Satan comes to
us to-day and he promises all Injuries,
all emoluments if we will only serve
him. Liar, down with thee to the pit.
"The wages of sin is death" o! the
young man of the text was wise when
he uttered the resolutions: 81 will arise
and go to my father"
In the time of Queen Mary, of En-
gland, prosecutor came to Christian |
who had hidden in her house |
for the Lords sake one of Christ's SER
wants, and the prosecutor said: where |
Is that heretic?" The Christian woman
said: "You open that trunk and you
will see the hereto" The prosecutor
opened the trunk, and on the top of the
linen of the trunk he saw glass. He
said: ''There is no hereto here" "Ah"
the said you look in the glass and you
will see the heretic!" AS take up the
mirror of Gods word to-day, / would
hat instead of seeing the prodigal of
he text, we might see ourselves-our
want, our wandering, our sin, our lost
so that we might be as wise
IS this young man was and say: II will
rise and go to my father"
The resolution of this text was formed
n disgust at his present circumstances.
f this young man had been by his en-
,loyer set to culturing flowers, or train
ne vines over an arbor, or keeping ac-
cunt of the pork market, or oversee
ng other laborers. he would not have
thought of going home. If he had had
lis pockets full of money, if he had
,een able to say: II have $1,000 now
# my own; what's the use of my going
,ack to my fathers house? Do you
hink am going to apologize to the
Id man? Why he would put me on the
limits; he would not have going on
round the old place such conduct as l
AVE been engaged in. / won't go
lome; there is no reason why l should
70 home; / have plenty of money,
,leuty of pleasant surroundings, why
hould / go home?" All! it was his
it was his beggary. He had
o go home.
Some man comes and says to me:
why do you talk about the ruined
tate of the human soul? Why don't
Tou speak about the progress OF the
century, and talk of some
hing more exhilarating?" 1t is for
his reason. A man never wants the
,ospel until he realized he is in
famine struck state. Suppose
hould come to you in your home and
rou are in good, robust health, and /
hould begin to talk about medicines,
md about how much better this medi-
inc is than that, and some other medi-
inc than some other medicine, and talk