Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-22
TALMAGE in EUROPE.

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xr1ow wnau tnar feeling H. Far away
from home sometimes surrounded by
everything bright and pleasant-plenty of
I friends--you have said, II would give the
world to be home tonight" Well, this
young man was homesick for his fathers
house. have no doubt when he thought
of his fathers house he said, Now per-
haps father may not be living"
We read nothing in this story-this para
BILE founded ON everyday life-we read
nothing about the mother. 1t says moth
ing about going home TO her. think she
was dead. think she had died of a broken
heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had
gone into dissipation from the fact he
could not remember a loving and sympa-
thetic mother. A man never gets over hav-
ing lost his mother. Nothing said about
her here, but he is homesick for his ia
theirs house. He thought he would just
like to go. and walk around the old place.
He thought he would just like to go and
see II things were rs .theynsed to be.
Many man, after having been off for a
long while, has gone home and knocked at
the door and n stranger has come. 1t is
the old homestead, but a stranger comes to
the door. He finds out father is gone,
mother Is gone and brothers and sisters
all gone. think this young man of the
text said to himself, Perhaps father may
be dead" Still he starts to find out. He
is homesick. Are there any here today
homesick for God, homesick for heavenf
A sailor. after having been long on the
sea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to go
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 a
great deal better here" But it made him
angry The night before he went awav
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 up. and he was ordered to very
perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines,
and amid the shrouds Of the ship he heard
the voice that he had heard in the next
room.
He tried to whistle it Off, he tried to rally
his courage, but he could not silence thai
voice he had heard in the next room, and
there In the storm and the darkness he
said: 20 Lordl what wretch l have
been, what wretch ami Help me just
now, Lord God" And / thought in this
assemblage today there may be some who
may have the memory of a fathers petit
ton or mothers prayer pressing might
lily upon the soul, and that this hour they
may make the same resolution / find in my
text, saying, II viii arise and go to my
father"
THE LOST ONE RESTORED.
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle,
went out into the sea, went out too far. got
beyond his depth and lac floated far away
A ship bound for Dublin came along and
took him ON board Sailors are generally
very generous fellows, aud one gave him a
cap, and another gave him 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 and
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 Eiverpuol the very day the gar
ments arrived He knocked at the door
and the father was overjoyed and the
mother was-overjoyed at the return OF
their lost son. oh. my friends, have you
waded out too deepf Eave you waded
down into sini llaveyop waded from the
snorer WIN you come oacRf When you
come back will you come in the rags Of
rnur ain or win ron coma ROBBED in the