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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE FACT SUGGESTS A SERMON ON
T. HOME cOMlNGs AND PRODlGALs.


There Is. More Joy In Heaven Over the
Repentins Sinner Than Over Any Other
Event on Earth-Telegraphy Of the Skies.
Home, Sweet Home.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 1i.-Rev. Dr.. Tai
mage, having concluded his round the
world tour, has selected as the subject
for today's discourse through the press
Home Again. the text chosen being
Luke xv, %, Bring hithe- the fatted
calf and kill it.
In all ages Of the world it has been
customary to celebrate joyful events by
festivity-the signing of treaties, the
proclamation Of peace, the Christmas
the marriage. However much on other
days Of the year our table may have
stirted supply, on Thanksgiving Gay
there must be something bounteous-
And all the comfortable homes Of Chris
tendon have at some time celebrated
joyful events by banquet and festivity:
The Prodisars Eet7En~ ~
~So1e5hhiiesSS~nnasssh ~nnss happened in. the old
homestead greater than anything that
has ever happened before. A favorite
son, whom the world supposed would
become yagabond and outlaw forever,
has got tired of sightseeing and has
returned to his fathers house The
world said he never would come back
The cid man always said his son would
come. He had been looking for him day
after day and year after year. He kne"
he would come back. Now, having re-
turned to his fathers house, the father
proclaims celebration. There is a calf
in the paddock that has been kept up
and fed to utmost capacity, so as TO be
ready for some occasion Of JOY that
might come along.
An, there never will be a grander day
on the old homestead than this day. Let
the butchers do their work and the
housekeepers bring into the table the
smoking meat The musicians will take
their places, and the gay groups will
move up and down the floor. All the
friends and neighbors are gathered IN,
and extra supply is sent out to the table
Of the servants. The father presldes at
the table, and says grace, and thanks
-,.Cnf:- -thst~ his long absent boy Is home
: again. Oh, how they missed him! How
glad they are to have him b0cE One
brother indeed stands poueing at the
back door and says: '"This is q great
ado about nothing. This bad boy should
have been chastened instead Of greeted.
Veal is too good for him!" But the IA
ther says: Nothing is too good Moth
ing is good enough" There sits the
young man, glad at the hearty reception,
but a shadow of sorrow fitting across
his brow at the remembrance Of the
trouble he had SEEN AL ready now.
Let the covers lift. Music. He was dead,
and he is alive again! He was lost, and
he is found By such bold imagery does
the Bible set forth the merrymaking
when a soul comes home to God.
The Young Convert.
First Of all, there is the new converts
Joy. 1t is no tame thing to become a
Christian. The most tremendous mo-
ment in a mans life is when he sur
renders himself to God. The grandest
time on the fathers homestead is when
the boy comes back. Among the great
throng who, in the parlors of my church,
professed Christ one night was a young
man, who next morning rang my door
, bell and said: ''Sir, cannot contain
myself with the joy feel. I came here
this morning to express it. I have found
more Joy in five minutes in serving God
than in all the years of my predigahty,
and came to say so. "
You have seen perhaps a man run
ming for his physical ibezty and the
officers Of the law after him, and you
saw him escape, or afterward you heard
the judge had pardoned him and how
great was the glee of that rescued mani
But It is very tame thing that COM
pared with the running for ones ever
lasting life-the terrors of the law after
him and Christ coming IN to pardon
and bless and rescue and save. You re-
member John Bunyan, in his great sto-
~, tells how the pilgrim put his fin
gers in his ears and ran, crying, "Life,
life, eternal ifep' A poor Car driver,
after having had to struggle to support
his family for years, suddenly was in
formed that a large Inheritance was his,
and there was Joy amounting to bewll-
derment, but that is small thing COM
pared with the experience Of one when
he has put in his hands the title deed to
the joys, the raptures, the splendors OF
heaven, and he can truly say, "Its man
sions ale mine; its temples are mine;
its songs are mine; its God is mine!''
Joy Of the Christian.
Oh, it is no tame thing to becomea
Christian. It is merryuaking. It is.
the killing Of the fatted calf. It is ju-
bilee. You know the Bible never COM
pares it to a funeral, but always com"
pares it to something bright. It is more
apt to be compared to a banquet than
anything else. 1t is compared in the BIZ
BILE to the water bright, flashing wa
ter-to the morning, roseate, fire work
ed, mountain transfgured morning.
wish>I could today take all the Bible
{ expressions about pardon and peace
and life and. comfort and hope and
heaven, and twist them into one gar
land, and put it on the brow Of the
humbless child Of God in all this lard,
and cry: Wear it, wear it now, wear
1t fore7er, son Of God, daughter Of the
Lord God Almighty. Oh, the JOY Of the
newScoIsert! Oh, the gladness Of the
Christian servicep'
You have. seen sometimes man N a
religious assembly get up and give his
experience. Well, Paul gave his expert
enee. He rose in the presence of two
csurche es-the church On earth and the
church IN heayen-and he said, S'Now,
his IS ny experience, sorrowful, yet
rejoicing; poor yet making
ch having nothing, get pos