Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-22

enough to meet your ca q. You say
"Bring on all that medicine, bring on
that physician. / am terribly sick and
I want help II 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 leprosy OF
sin is upon you, the worst of all sick
ness. On, then you say, Bring me that
balm of the Gospel, bring me that divine
medicament, bring me Jesus Christ"
But says some one in the audience,
"How do you prove that we are in q
ruined condition by sin" Well, can
prove it in two ways, and you may have
your choice. can prove it either by
the statements Of men or by the state
ment of God. Which shall 1t be? You
all say, "Let us have the statement OF
God" Well, he says in one place, The
heart Is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked" He says In another
place, sWhat is man that he should be
| clean, and he which is born of woman,
that he should be righteous He says
In another place, "There is none that
doeth good; no, not one." He says in
another place, "As by one man sin en-
tered into the world, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men. for
that all have sinned."
THE ALL POWERFUL NAME.
"Well," you say, II am willing to ac-
knowledge that, but why should take
the particular rescue thai you propose?
This is the reason, Except man be
born again ne cannot see the kingdom
Of God" This Is the reason, "Therc
is one name given under heaven among
men whereby they may be saved :"
Then there are a thousaa ad voices here
ready TO say, "Well, an ready to ac-
cept this help of the Gospel; would
like to have this divine cure; how shall
/ go to work." Let me shy that mere
whim, an underlined longing amounts 10
nothing. You must have u stout, tre-
mendous resolution like this young man
of the text, when he said, II will arise
and go TO my father"
"Oh," says some man, "bow do know
my father wants me? How dc know, il
90 back, would be recciyedy' "Oh,"
says some man, "you don't know where
have been; you don't know how far
have wandered; you wouldn't talk that
way to me il you knew all the iniquities
/ have committed" What is that flutter
among the angels of God? 1t is news;
it is news! Christ has found the lost.
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindlcd 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; il
you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about it or think Of it; you
can't get you ammunition wagons over
the Alps" Then Napoleon rose in his
stirrups, and waving his hand toward
the mountains he said, There shall be
no Alps" That wonderful pass was laid
out which has been the wonderinent Of
all the years since-the wondernlent of
all engineers. And you tell me there
are such mountains of sin between your
soul and God there is no mercy. Then
sea Christ waving his hand toward the
mountains, and l 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 sorrow at his misbehavior. 1t was
not mere physical plight. 1t was grief
that he had so maltreated lis father. 1t
is sad thing after father has done
everything for child to have that child
be ungrateful.
How sharper than serpent's tooth 1t is
To have a thankless child.
That is Shakespeare. "a foolish son
is the heaviness of his mother" That
is the Bible. Well, my friends, have
not some of us been cruel prodigals?
Have we not maltreated our Father?
And such Fsther So loving, no kind.
II he had been a stranger, il he had for
saken us, il he had fagellated us, IL he
had pounded Is and turned us out of
doors on the commons, ii would not
have been so wonderful---our treatment
of him; but he is Father so loving, 80
kind, and yet how many of us for our
wanderings have never apologizedl We |
apologize for wrongs done to our fell |
lows, but some of us perhaps have COM
mitted ten thousand times ten thousand |
wrongs against God and never apollo |
gized.
THE DIsGUsTED PRopIaAI..
remark still further that this reso-
luton Of the text was founded in a feel |
ing of inconsistencies. do not know
how long this young man, how many
unA a ra hA hnl
away from his fathers house, but there
Is something about the reading Of my
text that makes me think he was home
sick. Some Of you know what that feel
ing Is. Far away from home sometimes,
by everything bright and
pleasant, plenty of friends, you have
,aid, II would give the world to be
lome tonight" Well, this young man
was homesick for his fathers house.
nave no doubt when no thought of his
'athcr's house he said, "Now perhaps
'ather may not DO living"
We read nothing In this story-this
,arable founded ON everyday life--we
cad nothing about the mother. IL says
iothing about going home to her.
hink she was dead. think she had
lied Of broken heart at his wander
ngs, or perhaps he had gone into dissi-
'ation from the fact no could net re-
member loving and sympathetic moth
r. A man never gets over having lot
is mother. Nothing said abour hc,
ere. But he is homesiok for h.s is
hers house. lie thought he woui5 II
Ike TO go and walk around the OLD !ate. ,
10 thought no would just like 10 & a4a
20 II things We're as they used 10 le
Many man after having becsi OF .