Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-22

a sailor, aiicr having JecD long on
the sea, returned to hia fathers house
and his mother tried to persuade him
not to 60 away again. She said: "Now
you had better stay at home; don't GO
away; we don't want you to go. You
will have it great deal better here. y
But it made him angry. The night be-
fore he went away again to sea he heard
his mother praying in the next room,
and that made him more angry. He
went far out on the sea, and a storm
came mp, and he was ordered to very
perilous duty, and he ran up the rat
lines, and amid the shrouds of the ship
he heard the voice that he had heard
in the next room.
He tried to whistle IL off: he tried to
rally his courage; but he could not ST.
lence that voice he had heard in the next
room. and there In the storm and the
darkness he said; 80 Lord, what q
wretch / have been, what a wretch
ami Help me just now, Lord God"
And thought in this assemblage
today there may be some who may
have the memory of fathers petition
or a mothers prayer pressing nightly
upon the sotl, and that this hour they
may make the same resolution find in
my text, saying. II will arise and go to
my father"
A lad at Liverpool went cut to bathe,
went out into the sea, went out too far,
got beyond his depth and he floated far
away. A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him Oh board. Sailors
are generally very generous fellows, and
one gave him cap and another gave
him a jacket and another gave him
shoes. A gentleman passing along on
the beach at Liverpool found the lads
clothes and took them home, and the
father was heartbroken, the mother was
heartbroken at the loss of their child.
They had heard nothing from him day
after day, and they ordered the usual
mourning for the sad event.
But the lad took ship from Dublin
and arrived in Liverpool Tie very day
the garments arrived. He knocked at
the door and the father was overjoyed
and the mother was overjoyed at the
return of their lost son. Oh, ny friends,
have you waded out too deep? Have
you waded down into siny Have you
waded from the shorel Will you come
back? When You come back will you
come in the rags Of your sin or will you
come robed in the Saviours righteous
ness? believe the latter. Go home to
your God today. He is waiting for you.
Go home!
But / remark the characteristic Of
this resolution was, it was Immediately
put into execution,
DO NOT DELAY.
The context says she arose and came
to his father" The trouble in nine hum
dred and ninety-Dine times out of
thousand is that our resolutions amount
to nothing because we make them for
some distant time. # / resolve to be-
come Christian next year, that amounts
to nothing at all. If j resolve to be-
come Christian tomorrow. that
to nothing at all. If resolve
at the service today TO become Chris
tian, that amounts to nothing at all.
If resolve after ] go home today to
yield my heart TO God, that amounts to
nothing at all. The only kind of reso-
luton that amounts to anything is the
resolution that is Immediately put into
execution.
There is man who had the typhoid
fever. He said, "Oh, If could get over
this terrible distress; If this fover should
depart, If | could be restored to health,
| would all the re t of my life serve
God" The fever departed. He got
we'll enough to walk around the block.
He got well enough to attend to busi-
ness. He is we'll today--as well as hs
over was. Where is the broken vow2
There is man who said long ago, If l
could live to the year 1892, by that time
will havo my business matters ali ar
ranged, and l will have time to attend
20 religion, and l will be good,
thorough, consecrated Christian" The
year 1892 has come. January, Febru-
.ry, March, April, May, June, July
'ully half Of the year gone, Where Is
gour broken VOW
"Oh," says some man, "I1l attend to |
hat when can get my character fixed |
am now given to strong drink" or,
ays the man, II am given to unclean-
less," or, says the man, II am given to |
When get over my pres
mt habits, then I'll be a thorough Chris
ian." My brother, you will get worse
md worse until Christ takes you in
land. mot the righteous, sinners
|esus came to CALI
Oh, but you say, II agree with you on
IL that, but | must put it off little
onger." Do you know there were many
Who came just rs near as you are to the
,ingdom of God and never entered it?
vas at East Hampton, Long Island, and
went into the cemetery to look around,
nd in that cemetery there are twelve
raves side by side-the graves of sail
rs. This crew, some years ago, in
hip went into the breakers at Amagan-
ett, about three miles away. My broth
r, then preaching Mt East Hampton,
ad been ut the burial. These men of
he crew came very near being saved.
he people from Amagansett saw the
essel, and they shot rockets, and they
emit ropes from the shore, aud these
oor fellows got into the boat, and they
ulled nightly for the shore, but just
efore they got TO the shore the rope
mapped and the boat capsized and they
'ere lost, and their bodies afterward
lashed upon the beach.
oh. what a solemn day il was--I have
cen told of 1t by my brother-when
,ese twelve men lay at the foot of the
olpit aud he read over them the funeral
lryioe. They came very near shore
ithin shouting distance of the shore,
1t did not arrive ON solid land, There
10 some men who come almost to the