Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-01

~. Ac9~0c Andb you propose
ms Is the reason, Except man be born
again ,ls ne cannot see the kingdom Of God. -
ms Is the reason, There is one name
gwen under heaven among men whereby
they may be saved" Then there are 3
Thousand voices here ready TO say, well
am ready to accept this help of the Cos
Pei; would ike to have this divine cure.
how shall 20 to work. Let me say that
mere whim, an underlined LONGING
amounts 70 nothing. You must have =
stout, tremendous resolution like this
young man Of the text when he said. Il
VIII arise and go to my father"
Oh. says some man" how do know
my father wants me? How do know. II !
go back, would be receivedi'' "Ohr'
says some man, you don't know where /
have been. you don't know how far have
wandered; yeu wouldn't talk that way Il
me If you knew all the iniquities | have
committed What is that futter among
the angels Of Gods II 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 Tyre.
When Napoleon talked Of going into
Italy they said: you can't get there: II
you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about il or think Of il; you
can't get your ammunition wagons over
the Alps Then Napoleon rose in his
stirrups and waving his hand toward the
mountains be said, There shall be no
Alps" That wonderful pass was laid out
which has been the wonderment Of all the
years since-the wondermeut Of all en-
gineers. And you tell me there are such
mountains 81 sin between your soul and
God there is no mercy. Then | see Christ
waving his hand toward the mountains,
and hear him say, Il viii come over the
mountains OF thy sin and the hills Of thine
iuiqgity.n There shall be no Pyrenees,
there shall be no Alps.
Again, / notice that this resolution Of
the young man Of the text was founded IN
sorrow at his misbehavior. Il was not
mere physical plight. II was grief that he
had so maltreated his father II is a sad
thing after father has done everything
for a child TO have that child be- unyratefal.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth il is
To have 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 someo
us been cruel prudigalsi Have we not
maltreated our Fatherf And such
Father! SO loving 50 kind. If be had
been stranger. II he had forsaken
Us, IL be had fagellated Us, il he
had pounded as and turned US cut Of
doors on the commons, il would not have
been 50 wonderfHl-our treatment Of him:
but be is a Father 50 loving. SO kind, and
yet how many Of US for our wanderings
have never apologizedi We apologize for
wrongs done to cur 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 a feeling
OF homesiekness. 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 be was homesick. Some Of you
know what that feeling Is. Far away
from home sometimes surrounded by
everything bright and pleasant-plenty Of
have said, Il would give the
world TO be home tonight" Well, this
young man was homesick for his fathers
house. have no doubt when he thought
Of his fathers house he said. Now per
haps father may not be living"
We read nothing In this story-this para
bic founded on everyday life-we read
nothing about the neither. Il says moth
ing about going home to her think she
was dead. ! think she had died Of a broken
Z 1 Z k1sT
gone into dissipation from the fact he
could not remember loving and sympa-
thetic mother. A man never gets over hav-
ing lost his mother Nothing said about
her here. but he is h0mesick for his IA
theirs house. He thought he would just
Ike to 60 and walk around the old place.
He thought he would just like to so and
see il things were as they used 70 be.
Many a man. after having been off for a
long while. has gone home and knocked at
the door and a stranger has come II is
the old homestead. hut stranger comes to
the door. He finds out father IS gone,
mother is gone and brothers and sisters
al gone. think this young man Of the
text said to himself. Perhaps father may
be dead. Still he starts to find out. He
s homesick Are there any here today
homesick for God, homesick for heavens
A sailor. Al. er having been long on the
ga. returned to his fathers house. and his
mother tried TO persuade him not 70 20
away again. She said; Wow, you had
Better stay at home; don't 20 away. we
ion't want You to 60 You viii have il a
treat deal bstter here" But i made him
angry. The night before he went away
gain 70 sea he heard bis mother praying
hi the next nom and that made him more
angry. He went far out on the sea. and
storm came up. and he was ordered % very
,eriious duty, and be ran up the ratiines,
nd amid the shrouds Of the snip he heard
he voice that lac bad heard ia the next
room
He tried to whistle it off. he tried torally
~ courage, but he could not silence that
roice he had heard in the next room, and
here in the storm and the darkness he
aid. 20 Lord. what a wretch ] have
,een. what a wretch an Help me just
low. Lord Cod Ard / thought in this
,ssena blage today there may be some who
nav have the memory Of q fathers peti- (
ion or 3 mothers prayer pressing might I
" upon the soul, and that this hour they
nav make the same resolution ! ind innfy