Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-25

mon wharaby they may be saved Then
there are a thousand voices here ready
to say, ''Well, [ am ready to accept TINS
help of the Gospel: | would like to nave
this divine cure: how shall go to work?
Let me saw that a. mere whim, an unde-
fined longing amounts to nothing. y on
must have a stout tremendous resolution
like this young man Of the text when ne
said II will arise and go to my father.
'Oh!" says some man" how do know
nv father wants me? How do know,
if I go back, would be received?' 'sOh'-
saws some man, ''you don't know where l
have been; you don't know how lar L
have wandered; you wouldn't talk that
way to me if you knew all the inquiries
[ have committed" What is that 1lutter
among the angels of God? 1t is news,
it is news! 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 lyre
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 your 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 WODdcrment or
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 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, l notice that this resolution Of
the young man of the text was founded
in sorrow at his behavior. 1t was not
mere physical plight 1t was glief that
he had so maltreated his faJher. 1t is q
sad thing after a father has done every
thing for child to have that child be
ungratefuL
How sharper than serpent's tooth it is
70 have thankless child
A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe,
went out into the sea, went out too far,
get beyond his depth and he tloated far
away A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him on board. Sailors
are generally very generous fellows, and
one gave him a cap. and another gave
him jacket, and another gave him
the beach at Liverpool found the LAOS
clothes and took them home, and the IA
ther was heartbroken and the mother
was heartbroken at the loss Of their
child. They had heard nothing from
him day after day, and they ordered the
usual mourning for the sad event.
But the lad took ship from Dublin and
arrived IN Liverpool the very day the
garments arrived He knocked at the
door and the father was Overjoyed and
the mother was overjoyed at the return
of their lost son. Oh. my friends, have
you waded out too deep? Have you
waded down into sin? Have you waded
from the shore? Will you come back?
When you come back will you come in
the rags of your sin, or will you come
robed in the Saviour's Righteousness? |
believe the latter. Go home to your
God to-day. He is waiting for you. Go
home!
But remark the characteristic of this
resolution was, it was Immediately put
into execution.
The context says, 'he rose and came
to his father' The trouble in nine
hundred and ninety-nine times out of q
thousand is that our resolutions amount
to nothing because we make them for
some distant time. If I resolve to be-
come a Christian nextye that amounts
to nothing at all. If l resolve to be-
come a Christian tomorrow, that
amounts to nothing at all. If l resolve
at the service to-day to became a Chris
tian. that amounts to nothing at all. If
| resolve after | go home to-day to yield
my heart to God, that amounts to moth
ing at all. The only kind of resolution
that amounts to anything is the resolu-
ton that is Immediately put into execu-
ton.
There is man who had the typhoid
fever. He said, ooh, if could get over
this terrible distress, if this fever should
depart, if l could be restored to health
l would all the rest of my life serve
God" The fever departed. He got we'll
enough TO attend to business. He is well
to-daY-as we'll as he ever was. Where
is the broken VOW? There is a man who
said long ago: eff / could live to the
year 1892, by that time l will have nv
business matters all arranged and will
have time to attend to religion, and
will be a good, thorough, consecrated
Christian. 1.-The year 1892 has come.
January, February March, April, May.
Juue, July-fully half of the year gone.
Where is your broken vow?
''Oh." says some man, 'I'll attend to
that when can get my character fixed
up; when can get over my evil habits
| am now given to strong drink, or, says
the man, Il am given to uncleanness,'
or, says the man, II am given to dis
honesty. When get over my present
habits, then I'll be a thorough Christian"
My brother, you will get worse and worse
until Christ takes you in hand "Not
the righteO1S. sinners ,JoSuS ca mo to call
oh bnt you say, Il agree with you
on all that, but must put it off IL little
longer Do you know there were mar"
who came just as near as you are to tie
Kingdom of God and never entered il
| was at East Hampton, Long Islam.
and went into the cemetery to look
around, and in that cemetery there are
twelve graves side by side-the graves
or sailors. This crew, some years ago,
in ship, went into the breakers at
AmaganSett about three miles owov