Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-25
HIS LATEST SERMON.
TALMAQE STILL PREACHING
IN ENGLAND.
Hungry and Iomesick Furnishes Him
with u subject from which lie Draws
a Graphic ricturc--''I WIN Arbs and
Go to My Father"

ihNiN IN hitiiiitN liNt huhRtt w UNIV
the energy out Of man A hungry
man can toll neither with pen, nor
hand, nor foot. There has been many
an army defeated, mol 80 much for lack
OF ammunition MS for ieels OF bread. 1t
YVES that fact that took the fire out of
this young man Of the text Storm aud
exposure will wear out any mans lifa
In time, but hunger makes quick work.
The mos. awful cry ever heard on earth
Is the cry for bread.
Satan promises large wages II we
will serve hinA; hut he clothes his vic
Tins with rags and he pinehcs them
with hunger, and when they start out
10 do better he sets after them all the
bloodhounds OF hell. Satan comes to
MS to-day and he promises all luxurics,
all cmolumonts, IL we will only serve
him, Liar, down with thee TO the pitt
"fhe wages Of sin is death,h oh, the
young man Of the text was wise when
he uttered the resolution; II will arise
and so to my father"
In the time OF Queen Mary of Eng
land u prosecutor came toa Christian
woman who hau hidden in her house
for the Lords tS,lse one OF Christ's SER
wants, and the prosecutor said. "Whero
Is that hcrctic?" 'rhc Christian woman
said; "Nou 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 u glass. lie
said There is no hereto here. "Ah"
she said. "you look in the glass and
you will see the hcrctic," AS ! take
up the mirror Of Gods sword to-day,
would that instead of seeing the prodi-
gal of the text, we might sec ourselves
our want, our wandering, our sin,
our lost condition, SO that we might
be as wise as this young man was and
say; 81 will arise and go 10 my
father"
The resolution of this text was
formed in disgust at his present cir
cumstanccs, II this young man had
been by his employer set to culturing
flowers or training vines over IN arbor,
or keeping account of the pork market,
or overseeing other luborers, he would
not have thought of going home, II
he had had his pocltc.a full
of money, If he had been able
to say, ~ have u 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 ns 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 homc" All! il
was his paupcrism, It was his bcggary
lie had to go home.
Some man comes and says TO me:
"Why do You talk about the ruined
state of the human soul? Why don't
you speak about the progress of the
nineteenth century, and talk of some.
thing more eXhilarating?" II Is for
this reason; u man never wants the
gospel until he realizes he is In a
faminc-struck state. Suppose should
come To you in your home and You
IRE In good health, robust health, and
] should begin to talk about medicines,
and about how much better this medi-
cine Ia than that, and some other mcdi.
cine than some other medicine, and
talk about this physician and that
physician. After while you
would say: II don't want 10
hear about medicines. Why
do You talk TO mo Of
physicians? ! never have 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 skilfu
enough To meet your case. You say;
Bring on all that medicine, bring on
that physician. am terribly sick and
/ want help" II ! came 70 you and
you feel you are all right IN body and
all right in mind, and al 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
sickness, o. then You say: Bring me
that balm Of the gospel, bring me that
divine medicament, bring me Jesus
Christ"
"8ut, says some one in the audience,
''how do you prove that we are in
ruined condition by sin?" Well, ! can
prove II in two ways, and you may have
your choice. can prove IL either by
the statements of men, or by the state.
ment of God. Which shall il be? You
all say, "lct MS have the statement OF
God" Well, he says in one place: ''the
heart is dcceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked" He says in an.
other place; "what is man that he
should be clean? and he which is born OF
"a woman, that he should be righte.
ous?' He says in another place,
"there is none that docth good. no,
not one" He says in another place,
''as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned.'
When Napoleon talked Of going into
Italy, they said: lyon can get there,
II you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about il or think of il;
you can't get your ammunition wagons
over the Alps" Then Napoleon rose
in his stirrups and waving his hand
toward the mountains he said: There
shall be no Alps" That wonderful
pass was laid out which has been the
wonderment of all the years sincc-the
wonderment of all engineers And you
tell me there are such mountains of sin
between your soul and God, there is
no mercy. Then see Christ waving
his hand toward the mountains, and ]
hear him say, ~ will come over the
mountains of thy sin and the hills OF
thine iniquity." There shall be nc
Pyrenees, there shall be no Alps.
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle,
went out into the sea, went out too far,
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 jacket, and another gave
him shoes. gentleman passing along
on the beach Mt Liverpool found the