Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-27
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Diyinss SUM-
day Sermon

There is nothing like hunger to take the
energy out OF man. A hungry man can
aoli neither with pen nor hand nor foot.
There has been an army defer NOT 50
inucn lor lack OF ammunition as for lack of
oreau: IL was that fact that took the fire
out OF TINS young man of the text. Storm
and exposure will wear out any m ans life
IN time. but hunger makes quick work. The
most awful cry ever heard on earth is the
cry for bread
traveller tells lis that in Asia Minor
there are trees which bear fruit looking very
much llSe the long bean of our time. 1t is
CAMEO the carah. Once in awhile the people
reduced to restitution would eat these ca
Faos, but generally the carabs. the beans
spoken OF here in the text. were thrown only
TO the swine and they cruuchet them with
great avidity. But this young man of nv
text could not get even them without steal.
ing them go one cay amid the swine
!rGu2hs he begins TO soli'oquize He SAYS,
These are no clothes for a rich mans son IN
wear; this is no kind of business for jew
10 be engage injecting swine. I'll 90
nome; III go home; | will arise and 90 to nv
father" -
Know there are great many people who
Try TO throw fascination a romance a
halo about sin; but notwithstanding all that
LORD Byron and George Sand have said in
regard to If, it is mean, low. contemntihla
the troughs OF a herd of iniquities that root
and wailow IN the soul of man is very moor
BUSINESS Tor men and women intended to be-
sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty
ana When this young man reso.vei to go
nome IL was very wise thing for him to do.
ana the only question is whether we will fol-
low him
Satan promises large wages if we will
serve him, but be clothes his victims with
rags and he pincnes them with hunger. and
when they start out to do better he sets
after them all the bloodhounds OF hell.
satan comes TO US tc-1ay, aud h promises
all luxurles, all emoluments If We will only
serve INN. Liar, down with thee TO the
pit 1.-The wages of sin is death, Oh the
Young man of the text was wise when he
uttered the resolution, II will arise and 90
TO my fathern
In the time OF Queen Mary of England a
prosecutor came TO Christian wo nan who
Lad hidden In her house, for the Lords sake.
one OF 1hrists servants, and the prosecutor
sad, where Is that heretc?' The Chris.
nan woman said, GU open that trunk and
you will see the hereto" The prosecutor
opened the trunk, AMI ON the top of the
linen OF the trunk he saw glass. He said.
lhere Is no hereto here 'Ahr she said
you look IN the glass and you will see the
heretlc! As take no the mirror of Gods
word to-day, | would that instead of sesing
se'Fes-our want, our wandering, our sin,
cur lost condition-so that we might be as
wise as TINS young man was aud saw II will
arise and go to my father"
The reSo. ution of this text was formed in
disgust at his present circumstances. If this
young man had been by his employer set to
culturing flowers, or training vines over an
arbor, or keeping account of the pork mar
ket. or overseeing other laborers he would
not have thought OF going home Ii he had
mad his pockets full OF money if he had been
able 10 say; II have thousand dollars now
OF my own, what's the use of my going back
10 my fathers house? Do you think | am
gong back 10 apoiogize to the old man?
why, he would put me on the limits; he
would nothave going on around the Old place
such conduct as have been engaged in
won't go home. There Is no reason wby
should 90 home. | have plenty of money:
plenty OF asantsurroundings. Why should
go nome" An It was his pauperism; it
was his oeggary H had to 60 home.
Some man comes and saws to me: .sWhy
do you talk about the ruined state of the In
man soul! Why don't you speak about the
progress OF the Nineteenth century, and talk
OF something more exhiiaratiny % II is for
thls reason "a man never wants the CIosn1
until he realizes ha is in famine struck
state. suppose | should come to you in
your home and you are in good robust health,
and about how much better this medicine is
than that, and some other medicine than
some other medicine, and talk about this
physician and that physician After awhile
you would get tree, and you would says, II
cont want to hear ABOUT medicines. Why
do you talk to me OF physicians? l never
have a doctor"
you severely sick, and know the medicines
that Will cure you, and kno y the physician
VINO Is skllful enough to meet your case
y GU say Bring on all that medicine: bring
on that physician. ! am terribly SICK ami
want help 1t | came to you and you feel
YOU are all right i'll boiy and ali right in
mind and all right III SOU you have need of
nothing; hut suppos.ng | have persuaded
You that the ieprosy Of sin is upon you, the
worst OF all Sickness oh, then you say.
Bring me that balm OF the Gospel. bring
me that divine medicament; bring me Jesus
Christ"
But says some one in the audience, "dow
do you prove that we are in ruined con-
dltIon by SIM Wei, [ eau prove it in two
ways, and you may have YOU choice. l
can prove it either by the statements
of men or By the statement If
God. W hicE shall it be? You all saw. "T,4t
us have the statement of God" Wei. He
saws III one place, "lhe heart is deceitfu
above all things and desperately wicked"
lie says IN another place. "What is man
that he should be cleane and he which is
born of a woman, that he stould be rigbte-
ousy' de says in another Piace, There is
none that doeth good no. not ONE He
says in another place, LAS by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin;
and 50 death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinnsd"
Well }" you say, 81 am willing to
acknowledge that, but why should take
the particular rescue that you proposego
This Is the reason, Except man be born
again he cannot see the kingdom of Cod
This is the Jason, There is one name given
under heaven among men whereby they
may be saved Then there are a thousand
voices here ready to say, "WelI lam ready
to accept this help OF the Gospel; would
like TO have this divine cure how shall go
to work. Let me say that mere whim,
an untetiued forging amounts TO nothing
\ GU must have stout, tremendous resolu-
ton like this young man of the text when
he said, Il will arise and go to my father"
"OhW says some man, how do know my
father wants meS How do I know, if | 90
back, | would be receivedY "Ohr' saws
some man, you don't know where | have
Teen; you don't know how far have wan
dered; you wouldn't talk that way to rns if
you knew all the impurities | have commit
te :" What is that hutter among the angels
OF God2 1t is news, it is newSl Christ has
Nor ange.s can their Joy contain,
But KIN died with new fire,
The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
remark still further that this resolution
of the text was founded in a feeling of
homesickness. do not know how long this
young man. how many months, how many
years, he had been away from his fathers
house, but there is something about the
reading of my text that makes me think he
was homesick. Some of you know what
that feeling is Far away from home some
times surrounded by everything bright AMI
peasant-plenty of friends-you have said,
II would give the world to bs home to-
night" Well, this young man was home
sic6 for his fathers house. / have no doubt
when he thought of his fathers house he said,
Now perhaps father may not be living"
We read nothing in this story -this par
abls foun led on every day life-we real
nothing about the mother. 1t says nothing
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 sympathetic
mother man never gets over having lost
his mother. Nothing said about her here,
but he is homesck for his fathers house
He thought he would just like to go and
walk around the old place, He thought he
would inst like to so AMI see il things were
they used to be.
Many man a ftai, h ,vin.- hsa, off for n