Milford chronicle., 1892-08-26
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
PRACTICAL SERMON ON THE PROD
lGAL SON.

M lGAL SON.
er Sin Il Mean and Contemplate Thina
< at All Times, and the Promises Of
" Satan Are Never Kept-Procrastinatiou
e Always Dangerous.
N LONDON, Aug. 2l.-Dr. Talmage has been
r preaching during the past week every day.
= Besides the engagements made IN his
"a original programme for the week he
v preached in several towns which he had
+ promised TO visit earlier, but had been I'M
Il able to do so owing to so much more time
s than he expected being taken up by his
s visit to Russia, whittier he went to attend
Z the distribution Of The Christian Herald
I relief cargo. The eanceling Of these en-
| gagements caused acute disappointment
;, to the citizens, and so far as possible DR..
s Talmage has yielded to their entreatieg to
fix later date. The audiences last week
- at Leeds Bradford. -Shefaeld and Derby
were enormous, and at each place the pop
ular ovation in the streets was most en-
} thusiastic. The sermon selected for pub
LEGATION this week is from the text, Luke
XIV. Is, Il will arise and 60 to nay father"
There Is nothing like hunger to take the
energy out Of man. A hungry man can
! WI nNAhhcA WIN pen HOT manu- nor loot.
There has been an army defeated not SO
much for lack of ammunition rs for lack
Of bread. It 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 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 seliloQuize.
He says, "These are no clothes for a rich
mans son to wear; this is no Kind of
business for n jew to be engaged in-feed-
ing swine; I'll go home; I'll go home; will
arise and 90 to my father"
l know th0re are a great many people
who try to throw fascination a romance,
halo about sin; but Notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have said
in regard to it, it is a mean, low, conteinpt-
ible business, andsputting food and fodder
into the trOughs of a herd of iniquities that
root and wallow 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- j
solved to go home it was a 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 Y
rags and he pinches them with hunger.
and when they start out to do better he {
sets after them all the bloOdhOuads OF hell. !
Satan comes to us today and he promises
all Injuries, all emoluments if we will |
only serve him. Liar, down with thee TO I
the pit! The wages of sin is death" Oh. i
the young man of the text was wise when v
he uttered the resolution, 81 will arise and Il
go to my father g
SEE YOURSELF AS IN A GLASS. c
In the time of Queen Mary of England t
Il prosecutor came to Christian woman il
who had hidden in her house, for the Lords h
sake, one of Chrst's servants, and the per ii
secutor said, Where is that hereticY" Ii
The Christian woman said you open Il
that trunk aud you will see the heretic.n s,
The prosecutor opened the trunk, and on
The top of the linen Of the trunk he saw a l.
glass. He said, 'There is no hereto here" Il
Abr she said, you look in the glass and Il
rou will see the heretic" As / take ND ii
he mirror Of Gods word today, would nj
hat Instead Of seeing the prOdigal of the al
ext We might see Ourselves-Our want to
,ur wandering, our sin, our lost condition De
% that we might be as wise us this young is
nan was and say, Il will arise and 90 to b,
ny father"
The resolution of this text was formed Sc
n disgust at his present circumstances. m
f this young man had Teen by his employ ay
+ set to culturing flowers, or training be
ines over an arbOr, or keeping account Of do
he pork market, or overseeing other labor gr
rs he would not have thought of going an
ONE. If he had had his pockets full of az
honey, if he Lad been able to say: Il have in
thousand dollars now of my own; what's an
he use of my going back to my fathers st,
Ouse? DO you think am going back to PEI
pOlOgize to the old mang Why, he would an
ut me on the limits; he would not have tn,
DING on around the old place such con- roc
net as l have been engaged in. ] won't
D home. There is no reason why ! should his
D home. l have plenty of money; plenty vol
pleasant Surroundings. Why should the
, honeW All! it was his pauperism; it sal
as his beggary. lie had to 60 home. bee
Some man comes and says to me: "Why no,
YOU talk about the ruined state of the ass
lman soul? Why don't you. speak about ma
IL progress Of the Nineteenth century, and tiul
Tx Of something more eNhilartingW 1t lily
for this reason-a man never wants the ma
Dspel until he realizes he is in famine tex
rucl state. Suppose / should come TO fat
III in your home and you are in good
bust health, and I should begin to talk A
Out medicines, and about how much bet Iyei
: this medicine is than that, and some hey
her medicine than some other medicine 4 $
d talk about this physician and that tool
ysician after awhile you would get YER
ed, and you would say, Il don't want to cap
ar about medicines Why do You talk auo
me of physiciansi l never have doc pas
=" foui
suppose / come into your house and find hon
II severely sick, and l know the medi che
les that will cure you, and / know the thei
ysician who is slfillful enough to meet him
n case. You say: Bring on all that usu.
dicine; bring on that physician. am 81
ribly sick and / want help" If / came ARR
you and you feel you are all right in men
ly and all right in mind and all right in and
Il you have need Of nothing; but sup mot
e / have persuaded you that the leprosy theii
sin is upon you, the worst of all sick wad
s, oh, then you say, Bring me that dow
m Of the Gospels; bring me that divine shor
dicament; bring me Jesus Christ" com,
OUR EUINED CONDITION. vonr
tut says some one in the audience, Savi
ow do you prove that we are in a ruined ter
dition By SIM" Well, can prove il in ,vait
ways, and you may have your choice Bu
an prove it either by the statements OF tresol
a or by the statement Of God. Which into
Il it be? You all say, Let US have the Til