The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-09
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PRACTICAL DISCOURSE ON THE
PRODICAL SON.
Sin Is a Mean Contemplate Thing at
All Times, and the Promises of Satan
Preaching in Europe.

Dangerous.
Preaching in Europe.
DR.. Talmage has been preaching dur
ing the past week every day. The au-
diences last week at Leeds, Bradford,
Sheffield and Derby were enormous, and
at each place the popular ovation in the
streets was most enthusiastic. The SER
mon selected for publication this week is
from the text Luke wv, Is, Il will arise
and 90 to my father"
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out Of a man. A hungry
man can toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot There has been an army
defeated not so much for lack Of ammu
milton 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, but
hunger makes quick work. The most
awful cry ever heard on earth is the CRY
for bread.
Atraveler 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 in a
while the people reduced to restitution
would eat these carabs, but generally the
carabs, the beans spoken Of here in the
text, were thrown only to the swine 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 rich mans son to
wear; this is no kind of business for a
Jew to be engaged in-feeding swine;
I'll go home: FL go home; will arise
and go to my father"
/ know there are a great many people
who try 10 throw a fascination, ro-
nance, halo about sin; but notwlth-
standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to it, it is
mean, low. contemplate business. and
putting food and fodder into the troughs
of herd of iniquities that root and wal
low in tie soul Of man is very poor busi
ness for men and women inteRded to be
sons and daughters of the Lord AL
mighty. And when this young man re-
solved to go home it was very wise
thing for him 10 do and the only ques-
ton is whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large wages if We will
serve him, but he clothes his victims
with rags and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they start out to do
better he sets after them all the blood
hounds of hell. Satan comes to US to-
day and he promises all Injuries. all
emoluments if we will only serve him.
Liar, down with thee to the pit! The
wages of sin is death" Oh, the young
man Of tine text was wise when he ut
tered the resol ution, Il will arise and go
to my father"
In the time of Queen Mary of England
a prosecutor came to a Christian woman
who had hidden in her house, for the
Lords sake, one of Christ's servants,
and the prosecutor said. Where is that
heretic?" The Christian woman said,
''You open that trunk and you will see
the hereto" The prosecutor opened
the trunk, and on the top of the linen of
There is no hereto here" 'Ah"' she
see the heretIc." As take up the mir
ror of Gods word to-day. 1 would that
instead of seeing the prodigal Of the text
wandering, our sin, our lost condition
SO that We might be as wise as this young
man was and say, Il will arise and 60 to
my father
The resolution of this text was
formed in disgust at his present circum-
stances. If this young man had been
by his employer set to cultivating
flowers, or training vines over an ar
Dor, or keeping account Of the pork
market, or overseeing other laborers he
would not have thought of going home.
II he had had his pockets full of money,
l, nod IT
thousand dollars now Of my own: what's
the use of my going back to my fathers
house? Do you think am going back
TO apologize to the old man? Why, he
would put me on the limits: he
would not have going on around the old
place such conduct as l have been en-
gagged in. won't go home. There is
no reason why / should 60 home. /
have plenty of money: plenty of pleasant
surroundings. Why should go home?"
All! it was his pauperiSm: it was his
beRgarv. He had to go home.
Some man comes and says to me:
''Why do you talk about the ruined
state of the human soul? Why don't you
speak about the progress of the Nine
teenth century. and talk of something
more eXhilarating?" 1t is for this rea-
SOn-a man never wants the GOSpel un-
til he realizes he is in a famine struck
state. Suppose should come TO YOU
in your home and You are in good
robust health, and l should begin to talk
about medicines 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 tired, and you would say, Il
don't want to hear about medicines.
Why do you talk TO NE of physicians? l
never have a Doctor"
Suppose l come into yonr house and
find 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 phy-
sician. / am terribly sick and l want
help" II l came to you and you feel
you are all right in body and all right in
mind and all right in soul you have need
of nothing: but suppose have persuaded
you that the ieprosy of sin Is upon you.