The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-01
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
PRACTICAL SERMON ON THE PROD
lGAl. SON.

In Is a Mean and Contemptibls Thing
at All Times. and the Promises of
Satan Arc Never Kept-Procrastinatio
Always Dangerous.
LONDON, Aug. 2l.-Dr. Talmage has
cen preaching during the past week
very day. The sermon selected for
this week is from the text,
luke XIV, l8, II will arise and go TO my
ather."
There is nothing like hunger to take
Ihc cnegy out Of Il man. A hungry man
can toll neither with pen nor hand nor
loot. There las been All army defeated
not 90 much for lack Of ammunition as
tOr 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.
A traveller 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
awhile the people reduced to destitution
would eat these carabs, but generally
the carabs, the beans spo ken 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 Jew to be engaged ill
seeding SWINE; I'll 90 home; I'll go home;
will arise and go TO my father"
l know there are a great many people
who try to throw a fascination, a
romance, halo about SIN; but notwth-
standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to it, ii is q
mean, low, contemplate business, and
putting food and fodder into lhc troughs
Of herd Of iniquities that root and wal
ow i'll the soul Of manis very poor busl-
hcss for men and women intended to be
sNns and daughters Of the Lord AL
mighty. And when this young man re-
solved to go home it was very wise
thing Tor him TO do. and the only uUes-
Ion is whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large wages it we will
serve him, but he clothes his victims
with rags and he pinchcs them with
hunger, and when they start out to do
better he sets alter them all tho blood
bounds Of hell. Satan comes to us to-
day and promises all luNurics, all emo
!umcnts II we will only serve him. Liar,
down with thee to the pit! "Thc wages
Of sin Is death" Oh, the young man of
ihe text was wise when he uttered the
resolution, 81 will arise and go to my
nther."
In the time OF Queen Mary of England
4 prosecutor came to n Christian woman
who had hidden in her house, for the
Lords sake, one OF Christ's servants,
and the prosecutor said, "IVhere Is that
heretc:" The Christian woman said,
"You open that trunk and you will see
the heretic." The prosecutor opened |
The trunk, and Oh the top of the linen OF
the trunk he saw Il glass. lie said,
''Ihere ls no hereto nere." "Ah!" she |
said, "you look III the glass and you
will sec the hereto" AS take up the |
mirror Of Gods word to-day, | would |
that Instead of seeing The prodloul OF the |
Text we might sec ourselves-Our want,
our wandering, our sin, our lost condi.
tlon-so that we might be as wise as this
young man was and say, 81 will arise
and so to my father"
The resolution Of this text was formed |
IN disgust at his present circumstances.
III this young man had been by his en-
ployer set to Culturng flowers, or train
ing vines over an arDor, or keeping ac-
count of the pork market, or overseeing
other laborerS he would not have
thought OF going home. If he had hadhis
pocket full OF money, il he had been able
TO say: 81 have thousand dollars now
OF my own; what's the use OF my gong
back TO my fathers house? DO YOU
think l 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 cor duct as
l have been engaged in. l won't 90
nome. There Is no reason why | should
90 home. l have plenty of money:
plenty OF pleasant surroundings. Why
should L so home?' All! it was bis
pauperism; it was his beggery. lie had
TO so home.
Some man comes and saws TO me.
why do you talk about the ruined STATE
Of the human soul? WHY don't Won
speak about the progress OF the Nine. !
So' NeHtuiSS ANU tulk Ol something |
more eXhilaratinG?" 1t is for tins req |
son-a man never wants the Gospel un-
III he realizes he is in famine stuck
state. Suppose | should come to Won in |
your home and you are in good robust
health, and shonld begin to talk about
medicines, and about how much better
'his medicine is than that, and some |
other medicine than some otter mcdi-
enc, aud talk about this physician and
mat phys ysiclan. Alter awhile YOU would
yet tired. and you would say, ~ don,t
want 10 hear about medicines, WHY do
you talk to me Of physicians never
have a DOCTOR"
suppose come into your house and
ma you severely sick, and | know thc
medicines that will cure you, and know
lhe physician who is skillful enough To-
meet your case. You say: "BrinS on
all that medicine; bring on that nbysi.
c'aA. L am terribly sick and want
help" III come to you and you feel feel
you are all right iu body and all RIGHT in
MIND and all right in soul you have need
nothing; but suppose have persuaded
you that the leprosy OF sin is upon you,