Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-22
TALMAGE in EUROPE.
PRACTICAL SERMON ON THE PROD
IGAL SON.
SIN ID q Mean and Contemplate Thing
at ALI Times, and the Promises Of
Satan Are Never Kept-Procrastinatio
Always Dangerous.


Always Dangerous.
LONDON, Aug. 21.-Dr Talmage has been
preaching during the past week every day,
Besides the engagements made in his
original programme for the week he
preached in several towns which he had
promised to visit earlier, but had been un-
able to do SO owing to so much more time
than he expected being taken up by his
visit to Russia, whittier he went to attend
the distribution Of The Christian Herald
relief cargo, The canceling of these en-.
gagements caused acute disappointment
to the citizens, and so far as possible DR..
Talmage has yielded to their entreaties to
fix q later date. The audiences last week
at Leeds, Bradford. Sheffield and Derby
We're enormous, and at each place the pop.
ular ovation in the streets was most en-
thusiastic. The sermon selected for pub
location this week Is from the text, Luke
XIV. IS, II will arise and go to my father"
There Is nothing Hike hunger to take the
energy out Of q man. A hungry man can
toll neither with pen nor hand nor foot.
There Has been an army defeated not 80
much for lack OF ammunition as for lack
of bread. II 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.
It is called the carab Once in awhile 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 Jew to be engaged in-feed-
ing swine; pll go home; III go home; will
arise and 60 to my father"
l know there are a great many people
who try to throw fascination, romance,
a halo about sim; but notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have said
in regard to It, it Is a mean, low, contempt
ible business, and putting food and fodder
into the troughs of herd OF iniquities that
root and wallew in the soul of man is very
poor business for men and women intended
to be sons and daughters of the Lord AL
mighty. And when this young man re-
solved to go home 1t was very wise thing
for him to do, and the only question 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 bloodhounds of hell.
Satan comes to us today and he promises
all luxuries, all emoluments If we will
only serve him. Liar, down with thee to
the pit! "The wages of sin is death,D Oh,
the young man of the text was wise when
he uttered the resolution, II will arise and
go to my father"
SEE YOURSELF AS IN A GLASS.
In the time of Queen Mary of England
q prosecutor came to Christian woman
who had hidden in her house, for the Lord s
sake, one of Christ's servants. and the per
secutor said, Where is that heretioP"
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 the trunk he saw a
glass. He said, "There is no hereto here"
"Ahp' she said, "you look in the glass and
you will see the hereticp As I take up
the mirror of Gods word today, would
that instead Of seeing the prodigal of the
text we might see ourselves--our want,
our wandering, our sin, our lost condition
SO that we might be as wise as this young
man was and say, II will arise and go to
my father"
The resolution of this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances.
IL this young man had been by his employ
err set to culturing flowers, or training
vines over an arbor, or keeping account OF
the pork market, or overseeing other labor
ers he would not have thought of going
home. II ne had had his pockets full CT
money, IL he had been able to say: II have
a thousand dollars now of my own; what's
the use of my going back TO my fathers
house2. Do you think am going back to
apologize to.the old manf Why, he would
put me on the limits; he would not have
going on around the old place such con-
duct as / have been engaged in. ! won.
go home. There is no reason why / should
go home. have plenty of money; plenty
of pleasant surroundings. Why should /
go homer" Ali it was his pauperism; 1t
was his beggary, He had to go home.
Some man comes and says to me: "Why
do you talk about the ruined state of the
human souli Why don't you speak about
the progress of the Nineteenth century, and
talk OF something more exhilaratingf" 1t
Is for this reason-a man never wants the
Gospel until he realizes be is in famine
struck state. Suppose / should come to
you in your home and you are in good
robust health, and / should begin TO talk
about medicines, and about how much bet
ter 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