The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-11-21
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AGAIN IN BROOKLYN.
DIR. Talmase Finds Many Lessons in the
JOY of.Comins 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,
ssHome Again" the text chosen beng
Luke XIV, 50, Bring hither the fatted
calf and killed 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 Christ
mas, the marriage. However much
on other days Of the year our table
may have stinted supply, on Thanks
giving day there must be something
bounteous, and all the comfortable
homes of Christendom have at some
time celebrated joyful events by ban
quet and festivity. :,
Something has happened in the old
homestead greater than anything that
has ever happened before. A tavorlte
son. whom the world supposed would
become a yagabond and outlaw for
ever, has got tired of sightseeing and
has returned to hisfather,s house: The
world said he never would come back;
The old man always said hisson would
come. He had been looking for hlm
day after day and year after year, lie
knew he would come back. Now, hay
ing returned 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
to be ready for some occasion OF JOY
that might come along;
All, there never will be a granoer
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 1nusi-
clans will take their places, and the
gay groups will move up and down
the floor. AL the friends and neigh
bors 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 hls
long absent boy is home again, On,
how they missed him. How glad they
are to have him back! One brother
indeed stands pouting at the back door
and SAYS: This is great ado about
notb;no This had boy should have
been chastened instead of greeted.
Veal is too good for him." But the
father says, Nothing is t, too good
nothing is good enough" " There sits
the young man, glad at the hearty re
ception, but shadow of sorrow hit
ting across his brow at the remem-
brance of the trouble he had seen: All
ready now. Let the covers Lift. Music.
He was 6ead, and he is alive again
He was lost, and heis found! BY such
bold imagery does the Bible set forth
the merry-maHng when a soul comes
home to God. :.
First of all, there is new converet
Joy. It 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 grand
est time on the fathers homestead IS
when the boy comes back. Among
the great throne who in the parlors of
nv church professed Christ one night
was Young man, who next morning
rang NV doorben and said: Sir, |
cannot contain myself with the JOY l
feel. came here this morning to eX-
press it. I have found more joyin five
minutes in serving God than In all the
years of my prodigaity, and came
to say so"
You have seen perhaps 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 ofthat res
cued man! But it isa very tame thing
that compared with the running for
one'severlasting life, the terrors of the
law after him, and Christ coming in
to pardon and bless and rescue and
save. You remember John Bunyan,
in mis- great story, tells how the pilgrim
put his fingers in his ears and ran,
crying, Life, life, eternal life" A
poor car driver, after having had to
struggle to support his family for
wears, suddenly was informed that a
large inheritance was his, and there
was ioy amounting to bewilderment.
but that is small thing compared
with the experience of one when he
has put his hands the title deed to the
joys, the raptures, the splendors of
heaven, and he can truly, say, Its
mansions are mine; its temples are
mine; its songs are mine; its God IS
mine!''
Oh, it is no tame thing to become a
Christian. It is a merrymaking. 1t
is the killing of the fatted calf It is
Jubilee. You know the Bible never
compares it to funeral, but always
compares t to something bright 1t
is more arv to be compared to ban
quet than anything else. 1t is COM
pared in tie Bible to the water-bright,
flashing ySater-to the morning, ro-
seate, worked, mountain transfgured
morning. wish I could today take
all the BLDG expressions apouI pdiuoi!
and peace and life and comfort and
hope and heaven, and twist them into
one garland, and put it on the brow
of the humblest child of God in all this
land, and cry: Wear it, wear it now
wear it forever, son of God, daughter
of the Lord God Almighty! Oh, the
Joy of the new convert. Oh, the glad
ness of the Christian service
You have seen sometimes man IN
religious assembly get up and give
his experience Well, Paul gave his
experience. He rose in the presence
of two churches-the church on earth
and the church in heaven-and he said |:
s.Now, this is my experience; Sorrow
full, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet
making man rich; having nothing
yet possessing all things" If all the
people who read this sermon knew the