The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-30
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Rags and Hunger the Wages Paid by
Satan.
The Hounds of Hell started After All
Who Refuse the EmoIuments
OF Their Services.

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II will arise and 60 TO my father"
There is nothing like hunger 10 take
the energy out Of n man. A hungry
man can toll neither with pen. nor
hand, nor foot. There has been many
an army defeated not SO much for lack
of ammunition rs 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 was the cry for bread.
a traveller tells us that in Asia Minor
there are trees which bear fruit very
much like the long bean of our time.
1t is the carab tree. Once in while
the people, reduced to restitution.
would eat these carabs, but generally
these carabs, the beans spoken of here
in the text, were thrown only tn the
swine, and they crushed them with
great avidity. but this young man of
my text could not get even them with
out stealing them. So one day, amid
the swine troughs. he began To solilo-
quizc. He says: These are no clothes
for n rich mans son To wear; this is no
kind of business for jew 10 be en-
gagged IMPEDING swine. I'll go home:
I'll go home. Il will arise and go To my
father"
| know there are n great many people
who try To throw fascination. ro-
nance, halo about sin: but, notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and George
sand have said in regard to it. 1t is n
mean, low. contemplate business. and
putting food and fodder into the
troughs of a herd of iniquitics that root
and wallow in the oul of man is very
poor business for men and women in
tcnded To be sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty And when this
young man resolved 10 go home. it was
a very wise thing for him 20 do. and the
only question is whether we will follow
him.
Satan promises large wages IL we will
serve him; but he clothes his victims
with rags, and he pinches them with
hunger. and when they start out 10 do
better he sets after them all the blood
hounds of hell. Satan comes 10 MS to-
day and he promises all Injuries, ali
emolumcnts If we will only serve him.
Liar, down with thee 10 the pitt The !
wages Of sin is death" Oh, the young
man of the text was wise when he ut
tered the resolution: IL will arise and |
60 To my father"
In the time of Queen Mary of Eng |
land prosecutor came 10 "A Christian !
woman who had hidden in her house |
for. the Lords sake one of Christ's scrv- |
ants. and the prosecutor said where |
is that hcrctic?" The Christian woman |
said: You open that trunk and YOU will !
see the hereto" The prosecutor OPEN |
ed the trunk. and on the top of the
linen of the trunk he saw glass He |
said: There is no hereto here" "Ah" |
she said, you look in the glass and You
will see the hereto" As take up the
mirror Of Gods word to-day, | 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 bc as wise
as this young man was and say: II will |
arise and go 10 my father"
The resolution of this test was form
ed in disgust At his present circum-
stances II this young man had been
10y his employer set To culturing low
ers, or training vines over an arbSr, or
keeping accounts of the pork markct.o-
overseeing other laborcrs. he would not
have thought of going home. II he had
had his pockets full of money, il he had
been able To say, II have a thousand
dollars on my own account; what's the
use of going back 10 my fathers house?
Do you think | am going back 10 apol-
ogize To the old man? Why, he would
put me on the limits: he would not
have going on around the old places
such conduct as | have been engaged
in; won't go home; there is no reason
why | should GO home; have plenty of
money, plenty of pleasant surround
ings, Why should GO home?" All. il
was his pauperism, il was his beggary.
He had 10 go home.
Some man comes and says TO me:
why do you talk about the ruined
state of the human soul? Why don't
you speak about the progress
of the nineteenth century. and
talk of something more cNhilarating?"
II Is for this reason: \ man never wants
the Gospel until he realizes he is in
famine-Struck state. Suppose should
come to you in your home, and you are
In good, robust health, and should be-
gan Ia talk about medicines, and about
how much better this medicine Is than
that, and some other medicine than
some other medicine, and talk
about this physician and that
physician. After while you
would get tired, and YOU would say; II
don't want 10 hear about medicines