Arizona republican., 1892-09-04
THE HOMESICK SOUL.
pR. TAlMAeE DRAWS MANY LESSONS
 FROM THE PRoDlGAL SON.


 and Vile, Unworthy Pleasures at That. Only in Righteousness Can the Human Heart Find Any Real Satisfaction.
 LONDON, Aug. 21.-Dr. Talmage has been preaching during the past week every day. Besides the engagements made in his original programme for the week he preached in several towns which he had promised to visit earlier, but had been unable to do so, owing to so much more time than he expected be- ing taken up by his visit to Russia, whither he went to attend the distribu- ton of The Christian Herald relief cargo. The canceling of these engage ments caused acute disappointment to the citizens, and as far as possible Dr. Talmage has yielded to their cntreaties to fix later date. The audiences last week at Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Derby were 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, 'I will arise and go to my father"
 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 as for lack of bread. It 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 onr time. It is called the carab. Once in awhile the people reduced to Restitution would eat these carabs, but generally the carabs, the beans spoken of here in 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, "These are no clothes for a rich mans son to wear; this is no kind of business for a Jew to be engaged in feeding swine; I'll go home; I'll go home; will arise and go to my father"
 FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN.
 know there are great many people who try to throw fascination, TO- nance, halo about sin, but notwith, standing all that Lord Byron and George Sand have said in regard to it, it is a mean, low, contemptible business, and putting food and fodder into the trough: of herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is very pool business for men and women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this young mar resolved to go home it was very wis, thing for him to do, and the only ques tion is whether we will follow him.
 Satan promises large wages if we vii serve him; but he clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches them witl hunger, and when they start out to d. better he sets after them al the blood hounds of hell. Satan comes to us to day and he promises all luxuries, al emoluments if we will only serve him Liar, down with thee to the pit! "Th wages of sin is death" Oh, the younj man of the text was wise when h uttered the resolution, Il will aris and go to my father"
 In the time of Queen Mary of Eng land & prosecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house fo the Lords sake one of Christ's servants and the prosecutor said, Where is ths hereticy' The Christian woman said You open that trunk and you will SC the heretic." The persecutor opened tn trunk, and on the top of the linen of tn trunk he saw glass. He said, liner is no heretic here" "Ah," she said Hook in the glass and you will see tn heretic." As l take up the mirror c Gods Word today would that instea of seeing the prodigal of the text W might see ourselves--our want, our war dering, our sin, our lost conditions that we might be as wise as this youn man was and say, 'I will arise and s to my father"
 The resolution of this text was forme in disgust at his present circumstance If this young man had been by his en ployer set to culturing flowers, or trair ing vines over an arbor, or keeping a' count of the pork market, or overseein other laborers, he would not hay thought of going home. If he had ha his pockets full of money, if he had bee able to say: "I have thousand dollal now of my own. Whats the use of m going back to my fathers house? [ you think am going back to apologi; to the old man? Why he would put II on the limits. He would not have goir on around the old place such conduct I have been engaged in. l won't { home; these is no reason why shou. go home. l have plenty of none plenty of pleasant surroundings, wi should I go homer An! it was his pa perism, it 'as his beggary. He had go home.
 IS MAN IN A LOST CONDITION?
 Some man comes and says to m "Why do you talk about the ruin' state of the human souls Why dor you speak about the progress of the Min teenth century and talk of sonethiI more exhilarating?" It is for this reaso A man never wants the Gospel until realizes he is in famine struck stat Suppose should come to you in yo