Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-22
WORK OF THE LORD
Clear - the Sun and Terrible
as al Army
WITH BANNERS IN The CHURCH
OF Christ a-InaEe Tails Of It's Won
dsEful March IN his ElOqusns Ser
nan tor the Week.

L0SDos, Aug. eI.-Dr. Talmags has
been preaching dEing the past week
every day Besides the engagements
la4ds ID his original programme for tue
week be pralchsl Ia several towns
9hish hs had promised - Visit eariier,
11t dad besn unable % DO 80. owing 10
So muoh more time than BIZ expected BE-
ing I'd . Up ~ his visit % Russia.
whittier be went % attend the dstriba-
tiou u The Christian Herald relief
cargo. Tee caaesiing II these engage
meats caused acute disappointment 70
tae citizens, aad a. Tar as possible Or.
Talmase has yielded 70 their entreatles
tl 81 a laler date. The audiences last
wees at Leeds, Bradford, ShelEold and
Der0y We're enorua = 3, and al each place
the popular ovation IA the streets was
most enthusiastic. The sermon selected
for publication this week Is from the
text, LUks xv. IS, i vii arise and 60
% nay father
There is nothing ike hunger 70 take
the energy out q a man. A hungry
Lrm c;In Toll rher with pen nor hand
nor foot. There has been many an
aruy defeated NOT So much FOR lack Of
ammunition as FOR lack OF bread. IL
was gLat fact that rook the fire out Of
tins voung Glan DC tae text. Storm and
exposure win wear out any mans life
ia r'uaa, bat hunger makes quick work.
The most awful cry ever heard on earth
- the cry for bread.
a traveller tells Us that IN Asia Minor
there are trees which bear fruit looking
ve.y much Ike the long bean OF orr
time. 1t il called the carab. Once IN
awhile the people reduced TO desdtution
would eat these carabs, bat generally
the carlos. the beans spoken OF here in
the text, were thrown only 70 the swine
and they crunched them with great
ayidity- Bat this young man of my
text could not get even them without
stealing them. SO one day amid the
swine .roughs he begins To sohloquize.
He says. These are no clothes for a
rich man 8 son 70 wear; this is no kind Of
business for a jew 70 be engaged in
feeding swine; III 90 home; I'll 20 home;
l VIII arise and 80 to my father"
POOLS MAXI A MOCK AT SIN.
FhnOw there are a great many people
VINO Try 10 throw fascination. a ro-
nance, halo about sin, but notwith-
standing all chat Lord Byron and George
Sand have said IN regard 10 il, it is a
mean, low, contemplate business, and
putting food and fodder into the troughs
Of herd Of iniquities that root and
wallow in the soul of man is very poor
business fer men and women intended
10 be sons and daughters Of the Lord
Almighty. And when this young man
resolved 70 SO home it was very wise
thing for him to do, and the only ques-
ton Is whether we VIII follow him.
Satan promises large wages if we viii
serve him; but he clothes his victims
with rags, and he piuches them with
hunger, and when they start out to do
better be sets after them all the blood
hounds OF hen. Satan comes to US to-
day and he promises all luxuries, all
enclnnsuts If we VIII only serve him.
Liar. down with thee to the pitt "The
wages OF sin is death" Oh, the young
man OF the text was wise when he
uttered the resolution, Il will arise
aud 60 10 my father"
Ia the time of Queen Mary of Eng
land a prosecutor came to q Christian
woman who had hidden in her house for
the Lord's sake one Of Christ's servants,
and the prosecutor said. Where is that
hcretcy' 1-he Christian woman said.
'You open taat trunk and You VIII see
the heruric." Tae prosecutor opened the
trunk. and on the top Of the linen Of the
trunk be saw a glass. he said, There
Il To hereto here "Ah." she said,
''l1ok in the glass and you viii see the
her tic As I take up the mirror of
Gods word today l would that instead
Of seeiue the prodigal Of the text we
might see ogrselves--our want, our wan
d ung. our siu. oar lost coudition-so
that we might he as wise as this young
man was and Say, 4 will arise and 60
O. my f.thcrT
Ihc resolution II this ext was formed
81 tls-lst ar his present circumstances.
II t'ls young man had been by his en-
p'8ger Sd. e. culruring flowers. or train
ire vic-e ser en- arbor. or keeping ac-
count lf a pork market. or overseeing
oher lha-aEs. he would not have
taoas ot home. Il be had had
La rccg.t t-l al money. if be had been
a1.e ,1 say. z have "a thousand dollars
ROW ~ nr sHn. What the use OF my
going a.ek % nay fathers houseS Do
YOU snsnx am EeIrer back 20 apologize