Connecticut western news., 1892-08-25
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knowledge that, but why should I take the particular rescue that you proposeY' This is the reason, Except 8 man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" This is the reason, "There men whereby they may be saved" Then there are thousand voices here ready to say, "Well, am ready to &C., cept this help of the Gospel; would like to have this divine cure; how shall go to work?" Let me say that mere whim, an undefined longing amounts to nothing. You must have Q stout, tre- mendous resolution like this young man of the text, when he said, 'I will arise and go to my father"
 "Oh," says some man, "how do know my father wants me2 How do know, if go back, would be receivedr' "Oh," have been; you don't know how far 1 have wandered; you wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have committed" What is that futter among the angels of God? It is news; it is newsl Christ has found the lost.
 Nor angels can their Joy contain,
 But kindled 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; if 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 wonderment of all the years since-the wonderment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such mountains of sin between your soul and God there is no mercy. Then see Christ waving his hand toward the mountains, and I hear him say, "I 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, I notice that this resolution of the young man of the text was founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that he had 80 maltreated his father. It is sad thing after . father has done everything for child to have that child be ungrateful.
 | How sharper than . serpents tooth 1t is To have . thankless child.
 That Is Shakespeare. "A foolish son is the hsaviness of his mother" That is the Bible. We'll, my friends, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such Fatherl So loving, 50 kind. If he had been stranger, if he had for saken us, if he had fagellated us, If he had pounded us and turned us out of | doors on the commons, it would not have been SO wonderful-our treatment | of him; but he is Father so loving, so | kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderings have never apologized! We ! apologize for wrongs done to our fel- lows, but some of us perhaps have com mitted ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apollo gized.
 THE DISGUsTED TROPICAL
 I remark still further that this reso- lution of the text was founded in feel. ing of homesickness. I 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 home sick. Some of you know what that feel | ing is. Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant, plenty of friends, you have said, 'I would give the world to be home tonight" We'll, this young man was homesick for his fathers house. l have no doubt when he thought of his fathers house he said, "Now perhaps father may not be living"
 We read nothing in this story-this parable founded on everyday ife-we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. think she was dead. I think she had died of broken heart at his wander. ings, or perhaps he had gone into dissi patton from the fact he could not re member a loving and sympathetic moth CT. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about hel here. But he is homesick for his ia ther's house. He thought he would jus like to go and walk around the old place He thought he would just like to go ant see if things were as they used to be.
 Many man after having been of , long while has gone home and knocked l at the door, and stranger has come. is the old homestead, but 8 strange comes to the door. He finds out fathe is gone, mother is gone and brother and sisters all gone. think this youn, man of the text said to himself, "Per haps father may be dead" Still h
 starts to find out. He is homesick. Ar there any here today homesick for God homesick for heaven?
 A sailor. after having been long ol the sea, returned to his fathers hous
 and his mother tried to persuade hir not to go away again. She said: ''No, you had better stay at home; don't g
 away; we don't want you to go. To
 will have it 8 great deal better here.
 But it made him angry. The night be
 fore he went away again to sea he hear
 his mother praying in the next room
 and that made him more angry. H
 went far out on the sea, and storI
 came uD, and he was ordered to yer
 perilous duty, and he ran up the raj
 lines, and amid the shrouds of the shi
 he heard the voice that he had hear
 in the next room.
 He tried to whistle it of; he tried
 rally his courage; but he could not g
 lence that voice he had heard in the ne1
 room. and there in the storm and tn
 darkness he said: 70 Lord, what
 wretch I have been, what g wretc
 aml Help me just now, Lord God.
 And I thought in this assemblag today there may be some who ma have the memory of fathers petitio [ or a mothers prayer pressing mightil
 upon the soul, and that this hour the [ may make the same resolution find , my text, saying, II will arise and go | mv father