The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-22


place, "As by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin: and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have
Einned."
WELL" you say, ''I am willing to &C.
knowledge that, but why should l take the
particular rescue that you proposeP This
is the reason: Except q man be born again
he cannot see the kingdom of God.n This
is the reason. There is one name given
under heaven among men whereby they
may be saved.n Then there are a thousand
voices here ready to say: We'll am ready
to accept this help of the gospel: would
like to have this divine cure; how shall
go to workp Let me say that mere
whim, an underlined longing amounts to
nothing. You must have a stout, tremend-
Gus resolution like this young man Of the
text when he said: ~ will arise and go to
my father"
"O' says some man, show do know my
father wants met how do / know, II go
back, would be receivedp "On says
some man. you don't know where have
been; you don't know how far have wand
cred, you wouldn't talk that way to me IL
you knew all the in1quities have COM
mitted." What is that futter among the
angels OF Coda IL is news, 1t is newsl
Christ has found the lost.
Nor angels can their Joy contain,
But kindled with new fire;
The sinner lost, is found. they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked Of going into
Italy, they said: "You can't get there; if
you knew what the Alps were you wouldn't
talk about it or think of 1t; you can't get
your ammunition wagons over the Alps"
Then Napoleon rose In his sEirrups and
waving his hand toward the mountains he
said: There shall be no Alps" That
wonderful pass was laid out which has been
the wonderment of all the years since-the
wonderment Of all engineers. Aud you tell
me there are such mountains of sin between
your soul and God, there is no mercy
the mountains, and hear him say, II will
come over the mountains Of thy sin and the
hills of thine iniquity." There shall be no
Pyrenees, there shall be no Alps
Again, notice that this resolution OF the
young man of the text was founded in sor-
row at his misbehavior. 1t was not mere
physical plight. 1t was grief that he had
so maltreated his father. It Is a sad thing
after father has done everything for a
child to have that child be unRrateful.
How sharper than q serpent's tooth it is
To have thankless child
That is Shakespeare: "a foolish son ia
the hea viness OF his mother" That Is the
Bible. Well, my friends. have not some of
US been cruel prodigalsf Have we not mall
treated our father! And such fatherl So
loving, so kidd. If he had been a stranger,
IL he had forsaken US. If he had flagellated
us, IL he had pounded us and turned us out
of doors on the commons, II would not have
been 80 wonderful-our treatment OF him /;
but he is a father so loving. 30 kind and yet
how many of us for our wanderings have
never apologized. We apologize for wrongs
done to our fellows, but come OF us perhaps
have committed ten thousand times ten
thousand wrongs against God and never
epologized.
remark still further, that this resolution
or the text was founded In a feeling Of
homesiokness. l 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 be
was homesick. Some Of you know what
that feeling is. Far away from home some
times, surrounded by everything bright and
pleasant-plenty of friends--you have said:
81 would give the world 20 be at home to-
night" Well, this young man was home
sick 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 stor y-this para
BILE founded on everyday life-we read
nothing about the mother. It says nothing
dead. l think she had died of broken
hears at his wsnderings or perhaps he had
gone into dissipation from the fact that 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 fathers
house. He thought he would just like to 60
and walk around the old place. He Thought
he would JUST like to go aud see il things
q IN ha off
having been off q long while has gone home
and knocked at the door and q stranger has
come. 1t is the old homestead, but a stranger
comes to the door. He finds out
father is gone, mother is gone, aud brothers
and sisters all gone. I think this yeung
man Of the text said TO himself: ''Psrhaps
father may be dead.n Still he starts TO
here to-day homesick for God. homesick
for heaven!
A sailor, after having been long on the
sea. returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not TO 20
away again. She said: "Now you had bet
ter stay at home; don't go away, we don't
want you TO go. You will have ID great
deal better here" BUTT made him angry.
The night before 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 aud q storm
came up, and be was ordered to very peril
ous duty, and he ran up the ratlines and
amid the shrouds Of the ship he
heard the voioe that he had heard
In the next room. He tried 10
whistle it off, he tried to rally his courage;
but he could not silence that voice he bad
heard in the next room, and there in the
storm and darkness be said: 20, Lord, what
a wretch have been, what a wretch / am.
Help me just now, Lord God" And |
thought in this assemblage to-day there
may be some who may have the memory of
a fathers petition, or a mothers prayer
pressing nightly upon the soul, and that
shis hour they may make the same resoln-
tlon lind in my text, saying 81 will rise
and 20 to my father.''
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle,
went out into the sea, went OUT too far, got
beyond his depth and hoated far away. A
ship bound for Duplin came along and took
nim on board. Sailors are gensrally very
generous fellows, and one gave him q cap
and another gave him a jacket, and another
gave him shoes. A gentleman passing
along the beach at Liverpool found the
ads clothes and took them home, and the
iather was heartbroksn, the mother was
at the loss OF their child They
had heard nothing from him day after day,
and they ordered the usual mourning for
inc sad event. But the lad took ship from
Dublin and arrived IN Liverpool the very
lay the garments arrived. He knocked at
the door and his father was overjoyed, aud
The mother was overjoyed at the return OF
their lost son. Oi my friends, have you
Waded out too dean9 Hava Won Ygadad dc.rn