The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-02
THE PRODIGAL SON.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses ON the
Wages Of Sin.
Affect want Often Needed 60 Bring Men
To Repentance with Plenty Mnn b
Osten Arrogant, Bus Poverty
Compcis Him 20 Pause.

DR.. 1'aimagc, Of Brooklyn, continues
his preaching 10 thousands of interest
ed hearers In England. In the latest
scrmon selected for publication DR.. Tai
mage took his text from Luke XIV. 10:
81 will arise and 60 TO my father" lie
! said:
There Ia nothing like hunger to take
the energy out OF q man A hungry
man con Toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot. There has been many an
army defeated not 10 much for lack of
ammunition as for lack Of bread. II
WIS that fact that took the fire ont 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 Y 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 our
time. This Is named the carab. Once
In awhile the people reduced 10 destitu-
ton would eat these cnrsbs, but gcner-
ally the carabs, the beans spoken OF
here In the text, were thrown only 20
the swine and they crunchcd them with
grcat av'dity. But this young man Of
my text could not get even them with
out stealing them. So one day amid
the swine troughs he begins TO solilo-
quize. lie says: "rhese are no clothes
for a rich mans son to wear; this Is no
kind Of q business for a Jew TO be en-.
gagged IMPEDING swine; I'll 90 home;
Ell go home; ! will arise and go TO my
father"
know there are q great many people
who try 70 throw a fascination. q ro-
nance, n halo about sin; but notwithr
standing al TINT Lord Byron and
George Sands have said In regard TO IL,
1t Is a mean. low, contemplate bust.
ness, and putting food and fodder into
a herd of ~iniquitics TINT root and wal
low In the soul Of man Is very poor
business for men and women intended
70 he o n and daughters Of tho Lord
Almighty. And when this young man
resolved 70 60 home, IL was n very wise
thing for him TO do, and the only ques.
ton In whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large wages II we
will serve him; but no clothes his VIC
tins with rags, and he pinches them
with hunger, and when they start out
to do better he sets after them all the
bloodhounds of hell. Satan comes 10
us to-day and he promises oil luxuries. |
all emolumcnts II VIC will only serve
him. Liar, down with thee to the pit.
The wages Of sin Is death" o! tho
young man Of the text was wise when
he uttered the resolution: ~ will arise
and 60 to my father"
In the time Of Queen Mary. OF En-
gland, . prosecutor came TO u Christian
woman who had hidden in her house
for the Lords sake one OF Christ's SER |
wants. ond the prosecutor said: where |
is that hesctic?" The Christian woman /
said: "You open TINT trunk and you
will see tho hereto" The prosecutor |
opened the trunk, and on the top Of the |
linen OF the trunk he saw a glass He
said: There Is no hereto here" "Ah!" |
she said, 'you look In the glass and you
will see the hereticr' AS I take ND the |
mirror OF Gods word to-day, ] would |
that instead Of seeing the prodigal of
the text we might see ourselves-our |
want, u wandering. our sin, our lost |
condition, so that we might be as wise
- 80, yS1b hAss ulltl HuHs WIN i
arise and 60 TO my father"
The resolution Of this text was formed
In disgust at his present circumstances
u this young man had been by his en-
ploycv set to c~ulturing flowers, or train.
Ing vines over an arbor, OF keeping nc.
Cunt OF the pork market, or oversee
ing other laborers, he would not have
thought OF going home. II he had had
his pockets full Of money, II he Ind
been able to shy: IL have o., 900 now
Of my own; what's the use of my going
back to my fathers houseP Do YOU
think ] am going 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 i
have been engaged In. / won't no
nome; there Is no reason why ! should
90 home; I have plenty Of money, |
plenty OF pleasant surroundings, why |
should I 60 homeY" All! II was his
pauperism, 1t was his beggary. He had
TO 60 home.
Some man m 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
nineteenth century, and talk Of some
thing more exhilarating?" II is for
this reason: A man never wants the
gospel until he realized he Is Ia |
y famine struck state. Suppose Il
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 medi- |
cine is than that, and some other medi- |
cine than some other medicine, and talk
about this physician and that physi.
clan. After a while you would get
tired, and You would say; ~ don't
wnnt to hear about your medicines |
Why do you talk TO me of physicians?
! never have a doctor" Suppose Il
come into your house and I find You
severely sick and ] know the medicines |
that will cure you and l know the ply
sician who Is skillful enough TO meet
your case. You say, Bring on all |
that medicine, bring on that physician. |
l am terribly sick and 1 want help" II
I come TO yon and you feel you are all |