The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-22
HUNGRY AND HOMESICK.
TALMAGE BREACHES ON a TEXT
FROM ST. LUKE.

Still FlockinR to Hear the Great
Preacher.
LONDON, Aug 21,-Dr. Tslmage has been
preaching during the past week every day.
Besides the engagements made in his
preached In several towns which he had
promised to visit earlier, but had been un-
able to do SO, owing to so much more time
than he expected being taken up by his
visit to Russia, whittier he went to attend
the distribution Of the Christtdn Herald
relief cargo. The canceling of these en-
gagements caused acute disappointment to
the citizens and, as far as possible, DR.. Tai
mage has yielded to their entreaties to fix a
later date. The audiences last week at
Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Derby were
enormous, and at eaoh place the popular ova
ton in the streets was most enthusiastic.
DR., Talmage addressed to>day the largest
assemblage ever gathered in Birmingham.
The town hall was cramnsd with an audi
ence of 5000 persons and outside there
lowered sc, 900 more people whom DIR. Tal>
mage addressed from his carriage after the
services in the hall. On the way back
to his hotel DR.. Talmage was informed that
10 900 persons were still waiting on the
other side of the town hall to hear him. He
Immediately returned and briefly addressed
them. The crowd estimated at about
20, 900, then sang Praise God From Whom
All Blessings Flow The main doors Of the
hotel had to be bolted against the surging
crowd that ran ahead OF the doctors car
riage.
The sermon selected for publication this
week is from the text, Luke xv., Is: II will
arise and go to my father"
There is nothing like hunger to take the
energy out or man. A hungry man can
foil nathan with hand
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 is
the cry for bread.
A traveller Rtels US that in Asia Minor
there are trees which bear fruit looking
very much like the long bean of our time.
They name 1t the carab. Once in a while
the people reduced to destitution would eat
these carabs, but generally 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
without stealing them. So one day amid
the swine troughs he begins to soliloQuize.
He says: "Tbese are no clothes for a rich
mans son to wear; this is no kind of busi-
nees for Jew to be engaged in--feeding
swine; I'll go home; I'll go home: l will
ariseiand go TO my father"
l know there are great many people who
try to throw a fascination, romance, a
halo about sin but Notwithstanding all that
Lord Byron and George Sand have said in
regard to it, 1t is a mean, low contemptible
business, and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of a herd Of iniGuites that root
aud wallow In the soul of man is very poor
business for M and ipfanHad 70 ha
sons and daughters Of the Lord Almighty.
And when this young man resolved to go
home 1t was very wise thing for him to
do, and the only question is whether we
will follow him.
Satan promises large wages IL we will
serve himi but he clothes his victims with
rags, and he pin ches them with hunger, and
when they start out to do better he sets
after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Sa-
tan comes to us to-day aud he promises all
luxuries, all emoluments il we will only
serve him. Liar, down with unee to the
pitt THE wages of sin is DEATH" OF the
young man of the text was wise when he
uttered the resolution: II will arise ana go
to my father"
In the time Of Queen Mary Of England
prosecutor came to a Christian woman who
had hidden in her house for the Lords sake
one OF Christ's servants, and the prosecutor
said: 'Where is that heretic?" The Chris
tian woman said: "You open that trunk
and you will see the heretic.n The perse-
cutor opened the trunk and on the top of the
linen OF the trunk he saw glass. lis said:
There is no hereto here" F'Ah!n she said.
" You look in the glass and you will see the
heretIcW AS take up the mirror of Gods
word to-day would that instead of seeing
the prodigal OF the text we might see our
selves-our want, our wandering, our sin,
our lost condition, so that we might be as
Wiaa thia ma
will arise and go to my father"
The resolution Of this text was formed in
disgust at his present circumstances. Ii this
young man had been by bis employer set to
culturing flowers, or training vines over an
arbor. or keeping account of the pork
market. or overseeing other laborers, he
would not have thought OF going home. II
he had had his pockets full of money, If he
had been able to say, II have q thousand
dollars now OF nv own; what's the use Of
my going back to my fathers house? do you
think am going back TO apologies to the
old mans 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; l won't 20 home; there is no
reason why 1 should 60 home; have
plenty of money, plenty Of pleasant sur
roundings, why should so homer Ali it
was his pauperism, 1t was his beggary. He
had to go home.
Some man comes ana says TO me. "WhY
do you talk about the ruined state of the
human soull Why don't you speak about
the progress of the nineteenth century, and
talk of something more exhilaratingr' Il is
for this reason; A man never wants the
gospel until he realizes hs Is in q famine
struck state. Suppose should come 70 you
in your home and you are in good, robust
health, and should begin to talk about
medicines, and about how much better this
medicine is than that, and some other med
icine than some other medicine, and talk
about this physician and that physician.
After while you would get tired, and
you would say: II don't want to hear about
medicines. Why do you talk to me of
physioians9 l never have doctor" Sup
pose | came into your house and hnd you
severly sick, and l know the medicines
which will cure you, and 1 know the physi-
clan who is skillful enough to meet your
case You soy: Bring on all that medicine,
bring on that physician. l am terribly
sick and l want help" IL / came to you
and you feel you are all right in body and
all right 10 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 all sicknesH. o.
then you say: bring me that balm OF tha
gospel, bring me that divine medicament.
bring me Jesus Christi
But Gays some one in the audience, "How
do you prove that we are in a ruined CON
ditlon by sinF Well, can prove 1t lD two
.Nfava and Won may have vour ohofoa