Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-11-12
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE FACT SUGGESTS A SERMON ON
HOME CoMlNes AND PRoDleALs


Home, Sweet Home.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 11.-Rev. DIR. 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 beinp
Luke XIV, 23, Bring hither the fatted
calf and kill it. ."
In all ages Of the world it has boon
customary to celebrate joyful events bv
festivity-the signing of treaties, the
proclamation of peace, the Christmas
the marriage. However much on other
days of the year our table NAV have
stinted supply, on Thanksgiving day
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 ProdigaPs Return.
Something has happened in the old
homestead greater than anything that
has ever happened before. A favorite
son, whom the world supposed would
become a vagabond and outlaw forever
has got tired of sightseeing and has
returned to his fathers house. The
world said he never would come back.
The old man always said his son would
come. He had been looking for him day
after day and year after year. He knew
he would come back. Now, having re-
turned to his fathers house, the father
proclaims celebration. There is q 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
Ah, there never will be 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 presides at
the table, and says grace, and thanks
God that his long absent boy is home
again. Oh, how they missed himl How
glad they are to have him back! One
brother indeed stands pouting at the
back door and says: "This is a 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 shadow Of sorrow fitting across
his brow at the remembrance of the
trouble he had seen. All 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 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 q 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 young g.,
man, who next morning rang my door
bell and said: "Sir, / cannot contain
myself with the joy feel came here '
this morning to express it. l have found
more JOY in five minutes in serving God
than in all the years Of my prodigality,
and / came to say 80.
You have seen perhaps a man run
ming for his physical liberty 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 man
But it is very tame thing that COM
pared with the running for ones ever y
lasting life-the terrors Of the law after 4
him and Christ coming in to pardon -
and bless and resoue and save. You re- " y
member John BunyaR. IN his great sto' = =
y, tells how the pilgrim put his I'm o.
gers in his ears aud ran, crying, "bife, ~
life, eternal lifep a poor car driver, !,
after having had TO struggle TO support =
bis family for years. suddenly was in :
|ofmed that a large inheritance was his,
md there was JOY amounting to bewil'
sermeDt, but that is a small thing COM
pared with the experience of one when
~ has put in his hands the title deed TO
DO joys, the raptuTes, the splendors Of
haven, and he can truly say, Its man =
'lpns are minei it's temples are mine :
NJ songs are mipei its God Is mine"
JOY sf the Christian
oh, IL is no tame thing 70 become
|,bristian IL is merrymaking II ls
|he killing of the fatted calf IL Is jn-
Mo-, You know the Bible never com :
oales il 10 funeral, but always com
|safea it 90 something bright ltis more
Atl 10 be- compared 10 banquet than
Aesthing else 10 Is compared ~ the ~
|ak 20 the water-~ bright flashing wa
VA 90 tho morning, rpseale, hre Work
"a mountain tTanshgured morning J
Nth ! could today take all the Bible
AZ ossiQps ahopt pardoa snd paaee
NNN llfe aud comfort aaa hope Ana
|Rtgop, and twist them into ono gar
|s8 and put u 0n tho brow " lhe
''N|p pblest child " God in all Ihls land
''7 ery' Wear a. wear "a now, wear
|| |lluUr Ruu al God daunhtuT ~ tht