Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-22
near about medicines. why do You talk
to me Of physiciansa I never have doc

tor"
Suppose come into your house and find
you severely sick, and know the medi-
cines that will cure you, and / know the
physician who is skillful enough to meet
your case. You say: 'sBring on all that
medicine; bring on that physician. / am
terribly sick and / want help" If I came
to you and you feel you are all right in
body and all right in mind and all right in
soul you have need of nothing; but sup
pose have persuaded you that the leprosy
of sin is upon you, the worst Of all sick
ness, oh, then you say, Bring me that
balm of the Gospel; bring me that divine
medicamept; bring me Jesus Christ"
OUR RUINED CONDITION.
But says some one in the audience,
"How do you prove that we are in ruined
condition by sin2" Well, can prove it in
two ways, and you may have your choice,
can prove it either by the statements of
men or by the statement of God. Which
shall it beS You all say, "Let us have the
statement of God" Well, he says in one
place, 1.-THE heart is deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked.n He says
in another place, "What is man that he
should be clean? and he which is born of a
woman, that he should be righteousp" He
says in another place, "There is none that
doeth good: no. not one." He says In an
other place, las by one man sin entered
into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned.n
"Well," you say, II am willing to &C.
knowledge that, but why should I take
the particular rescue that you proposed"
This Is the reason, Except man be born
again he cannot see the kingdom of God"
This Is the reason, "There Is one name
given under heaven among men whereby
they may be saved" Then there are
thousand voices here ready to saw" WelL
am ready to accept this help Of the Cos
pei; would like to have this divine cure:
how shall go to work." Let me say that
o mere within, an Underlined longing
amounts to nothing. You must have
stout, tremendous resolution like this
young man of the text when he said, II
will arise and go to my father"
"Oh" says some man, how do l know
my father wants mep How do know, If
go back, would be receiveASn "Ohp'
says some man, you don't know where /
have been; you don't know how far have
wandered; you wouldn't talk that way to
me IL you knew all the iniquities / have
committed" What is that futter among
the angels of Godp 1t is news, it is newsi
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
ur Gt,av I'M ha l,xa
wouldn't talk about it or think of it; you
the Alps" Then Napoleon rose in his
stirrups and waving his hand toward the
mountains he said, "There shall be no
Alps" Thatswonderful pass was laid out
which has been the wonderment of all the
years since-the wonderment of all en-
gineers. 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, notice that this resolution of
the young man of the text was founded In
sorrow at his misbehavior. 1t was not
mere physical plight. 1t was grief that no
had SO maltreated his father. 1t is sad
thing after a father has done everything
for child to have that child be ungrateful. |
How sharper than serpent's tooth 1t Is
To have thankless child.
SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE.
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son Is
the heaviness of his mother" Thatis the
Bible Well, my friends, have not some Of
US been cruel prodigalsi Have we not
maltreated our Fatherf And such a
Father So loving, so kind. If he had
been stranger, If he had forsaken |
us, If he had fiagellated 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 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 homesickness. l 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 homesick. Some of Won
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