Milford chronicle., 1892-08-26
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, AUGUST %, 1892.

AAy AatAef Wduts neg How DO KNOW, II
90 back, I would be receivedsn "Oh!
says some man, you don't know whore
have been; you don't know how far hav
wandered; you wouldn't talk that way [
me "a yon knew all the iniquities | hav
committed. What is that flutter anon
the angels Of GOdy It is news, il is news
Christ has found the lost
Nor angels can their joy contain,
Bus kindicd with new fire;
The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike tho sounding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked OF going int,
Italy they said: You can't get there: I
you. knew what the Alps were vol
wouldn't talk about It or think of It; 70,
can't get your ammunition wagons owe
the Alps, Then Napoleon rose in hi
stirrups and waving HIS hand toward thu
mountains he said, There shall be nc
Alps" That wonderful pass was laid out
which las been the wonderment Of all the
years since-the wOnderment Of all ca.
gineers. And you tell me there are such
mountains Of sin between your soul and
I God there is no mercy. Then l see Christ
/ waving his hand toward the mountains.
and / hear him say, Il will come over the
mountains of thy sin and the hills Of thine
I iniquity." There shall be no Pyrenees.
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there shall. be no Alps.
Again, notice that this resolution of
the young man of the text was founded in
sorrow at his misbehuvior It was not
mere physical plight. It was grief that he
hHd 50 maltreated his father It Is a sad
thing after father has done everything
for child TO have that child be ungrateful
How sharper than a sorpent's tooth Il Is
To have IL thankless child.
SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE.
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 proiigalss Have We not
maltreated our Fatherg And such a
Father! So loving, so kind. If he had
been a stranger, il he had forsaken
us, if he had hagellated MS, if he
had pounded us and tupcd us out Of
doors Oh the commons, it would not have
been so wonderful-Our treatment Of him;
but he is Father so loving, so kind, and
yet low many Of MS for our wandcrings
have never apologizedl We apologize for
wrongs done to our fellows, but some Of us
perhaps have committed ten thousand
times ten Thousand wrongs against God
and never apologized.
/ remark still further that this resolu-
ton Of the text was founded in feeling
of Inconsistencies. 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 he was hOmcsick. Some of you
know what that feeling is. Far away
from home sometimes surrounded by |
bright and pleasant-plenty Of |
'riends-you have. said, - would give the 4
world to be home tonight" Well, this /
Young man was homesick for his fathers /
house. have no doubt when he thought /
If his fathers house he said, Now per
laps father may not be living"
We read nothing in this stOry-this para
BE founded on everyday life-we read
lothing about the mother. 1t says moth
ny about going home to Ter / think she
vas dead. think she had died Of a broken
leart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had
,One into dissipation from the fact he
Ould not remember n loving and sympa-
hetic mother. a man never gets over hav-
ng lost his mother. Nothing said about
er here, but he is Lomcsick for his IA
hers house. lie thought he would Just
Ike to go and walk around the old place
lie q ought he would just like to 20 and
re if things were as they used to be,
Many il man, after having been off for a ,
ing while, has gone home and knocked at
ne door and stranger has come. It is !
ie old homestead, but stranger comes to !
ie door lie finds out father is gone,
other Is gone and brothers and sisters
] gone. thir1s this young main Of the (
Xt said To himself Perhaps father may {
= dead" Still lie starts to find out lie S
hOmesick. Are there any here today Il
1mesick for God, hcmesick for heavenY d
A sailor, after having been long on the I
a, returned 20 his fathers house. and his I
other tried to persuade him not to 90 a
way again. She said: Nov, You had Fl
tier stay 1T home; don't 90 away; we h
MT want you to 20. You will have it a Il
eat dc; better here" But it made him 81
CRY. The night before he went away d
ain to sea he heard his mother praying a
the next room and that made him more W
cry. lie went far out on the sea, and a L
lrm came up. and he was ordered to very G
riious duty, and he ran up the ratlines, q,
q amid the shrOuds of the ship he heard n
e voice that he had heard in the next ID
)m. 81
Ie tried tOwhistle it off, he tried to rally m
courage, but he could not silence that al
ice he had heard in the next room, and
ere in the storm and the darkness he
Il; 20 Lord what a wretch ] have sc
n, what wretch l am! Help me just sa
", Lord God" And / thought in this 80
today there may be some who n
> have the memory of a fathers petit wi
n or mot hers prayer pressing might ~,
GrGa the soul, and hat this hour they be
y make the same resolution find in my do
3 Il Il !
her" m,
THE LOST ONE RESTORED. su
lad at Liverpool went out to battle, &C
At out into the sea, weat out 90 far, got ma
ond his depth and he iloated far away. OIL
mp bound for Dublin came along and me
K him on board Sailors arc generally die
y generous fellows aud one gave him a 49,,
and another gave him jacket, and W
tier gave him shoes. A gentleman ny
sing along ON the beach ut Liverpool 40.
nd the lads clothes and took them y
he, and the father was heartbroken and "
mother WAS heartbroken at the loss OF ia ~
r child. They had heard nothing from nc
day after day, and they ordered the eii'
si mourning for the sad event 70.
ut the lad took ship from Dublin and 'ne
we'd in Liverpool the very day the gar WI
Is arrived. He knocked at the door ,iea
the father was Overjoyed and the n'',
her was overjoyed at the return Of 20
r lost son. Oh, my friends, have you l''t
cd out toO deep? Have you waded mo
n into SIM Have you waded from the lhe
eS viii you come backf When you CO.. e,a
Q back will you come In the rags Of y,
sin, or will you come robed in the -,
ours righteousness Fbelieyc tie lat ~
Go home to your God today He is 49,,
ing for you. Go homcl -
10 l remark the Characteristic Of this .,,5
ution was, it WAS Immediately put ~, =.
execution.
e context says che arose ard came to ~ o.
father" The troubla ia nine hundred 49,
aincty-nine times out Of a thousand is ss,'
our resolutions amount Ia nothing be- -
e ygeniake them for some distant time. ~.
resolve TO become Christian next 800,
that amounts to nothing ut all II -,
We to become Christian tomorrow, 81
to nothing ut all If ] re- -,
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