Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-08-25
THE HOMEsICh SOUL
rR. TALMAeE DRAWS MANY LESSONS
FROM THE PRoDIGAL SON.

I K. IALM2GE OfAWS MIAMI ICo0Si>S
FROM THE. PRoDIaAL SON.
The Pleasures OF Sin Are but for Season,
and Vile, Unworthy Pleasures at That.
Only In Righteousness Can the Human
Heart Find Any Real Satisfaction.
LONDON, Aug. 2l.-Dr. Talmage has
been preaching during the past week
every day. Besides the engagements
made in his original programme for the
---eek- he preached -. several towns
but had been unable to do 50, owing 4
so much more time than he expected be-
ing taken up by his visit to Russia,
whittier he went to atteL,. the dlstrlbu-
ton of The Christian Herald relief
cargo. The cancelng of these engage
ments caused acute disappointment to
the citizens, and as far as possible DR..
Talmage has yielded u their entreaties
to fix later date. The audiences last
week at Leeds. Bradford, Sheffield and
Derby We're enormous, and at each place
the popular ovation in the streets was
most enthusiastic. The sermon selected
for publication this week is from the
text, Luke XIV, IS, Il will arise and so
to my father
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out Of a man. A hungry
man caa toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot. There has been many an
army defeated not so much Tor 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, b. hunger makes quick work.
The most "a eful 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. 1t is called the carab. Once III
awhile the people reduced TO destltution
would eat these carabs, but generally
the carabS. the beans spoken of here IN
the text. Were thrown only TO the swilse
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 tie
swine troughs he begins to SoEloQuiza.
He SAYS. These are no clothes for q
rich mans son 10 wear; this Is no kind OF
business for Jew to be engaged IN
feeding swine: III go home; III ohome;
viii arise and go to my father.
POOLS MIKE \ MOCK AT SIN
know there are great many people
who try TO throw fascination. a 70
nance. a halo about sin. but notwi.h-
standing all thaJ Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard TO IL it is a
mean. low. cooteinptible business. and
putting foGd and fodder into the trouShs
of a herd Of iniquit;es that root and
wallow III the soul Of man Is Very pe0r
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 a Very wise
thing for him to do. and the only ques
ton is whether we VIII follow him.
Satan promises large wages If we VII
serve him; bur he clothes his victi:as
with rags, and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they start ont 10 DO
better he Sets after them all the blood
bounds of he'll Satan comes 10 US to-
,iav and he promises all luxlries, all
emoIunlents we will only serve him.
Liar, down Win ,tlro 70 the pit, The
wages of sin is death. On, The yaung
man OF the text was wise when he
utferet; tthe resolution. Il will arise
aud go to my father,
In the time of Queen Mary of Eng
Ind prosecutor came TO Christian
woal',-- 10 had hidden in her house for
the Lord 5 sake oi~ y Christ's servants.
and the persecu.or said. Where is that
heretic:' The Christian woman said.
You open that trunk AID You viii see
the hereto. The prosecutor opened the
trunk, and on the top of the linen Of the
trunk he saw a glass. Tie said, There
is no hereto here. An" she said
look in the glass and You will See the
hereto" As l take up the mirror of
G od 5sSs Moro AZ today M24s Il the the text we
might see oursesveS-our want. our Wall
derng. our sin. our iost condition-so
that we might be As wise as this Young
man was and say. i Viii arise and 50
70 my father
The resolution OF this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances.
If this young man had been by his en-
oloyer set TO clllturing flowers. or train
ing vines over an arbor, or keeping ac-
cou,t of the pork market. or overseeing
other laborers, he would not have
rnousht of going home II he had ~
his rockets fuIl OF money i b ''a Dc''ii .'
ao4e 'o. Say .,h. What's the use OF lav
,,.I4e1hg noIg back TO NY fathers house: DO
you think am going back 10 apologize
to the old man: W.: he would put me
on the limits. He would not have going
on around the old place such conduct as
l have been engaged III. / Won't 20
home; there Is no reason why l should
go home. have plenty OF money,
plenty of pleasant SURF 1ndinss. why
should l 90 home All, it was his pau
perisn, il was his beggary BE had to
go home.
Is NAN IN A lost CONDITION:
Some man comes and says 70 ne:
why do you talk about the ruined
state OF the human soul: Why don't
yon speak about the progress Of the Nine
teenth century and talk of something
more exhilarating:" Il is for this reason:
a man never wants the Gospel until he
realizes he is IN a famine struck state.
Suppose should come TO You in Your
home, and You are in good, roi,'
health. and ! should begin to talk abod,
medicines, and about how much better
this medicine IS than that, and some
other medicine than some other medi-
cine and talk about this physician and
That physician. After awhile You
would get tired. and You would say: i
don't want TO hear about medicines.
Why DO you talk to me Of physicians: l
never have doctor.
Suppose come into your house and /
ind you severely sick, and l know the
medicines that will cure you, and
know the physician who Is skillful
enough TO meet Your case. You say:
Bring on all that medicine, bring on
that physician. am terribly sick and
want help If came to You and you
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