Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-15

There Is nothing like hunger to take the
1nerRy out 81 q man. hungry man can
toll neither with pen nor hand nor foot.
There has been many an army defeated mot
Of bread. 1t was that fact that took the flrs
out Of this young man Of the text. Storm
and exposure will wear out any mans life In
time, but hunger makes quick work. The
most awful cry ever heard ON earth 70 the
cry for bread. 4 traveller tells ~ that u
Asia Minor there are trees which bear huat
looking very much like the long bean OF oul
time. It Is called the carob. Once in awhile
the people, reduced to destitution, would ea1
these carobs, but generally tho carohe-ths
beans spoken Of here in the text-wsre
thrown only to the swine, and thcy crunehed
them with great avidtty. But this young
man Of my text could not even get them
without stealing them. 30 ono day, amid
the swine troughs, he begins to soltloQui1a.
He says: "These are no clothes for . rtch
mans son to wear. This isno kind Of busi-
ness for Jew to be engaged tn. feeding
arise ami go to my father"
know there are a great many people who
try to throw fascination, a romance,
halo, about sin: but, Notwithstanding all that
Lord Byron and George Sand have said IN
regard to 1t, it is a mean. low, contemplate
business, aud putting food and fodder into
the trouyhs Of a herd Of iniQuities that root
and waliow in the soul OF man ts . very poor
business for men and women intended to b
sons and daughters OF the Lord Almighty,
AMI when this young man resolved to &c
home II was a very wise thing for him to do,
and the only question Is whether We will fol.
low him. Satan promises large wages II We
will serve him, but he clothes his victima
with rags, and he pinches them with hunger,
and when they start out to do better he seta
after them all the bloodhounds OF hell. Satan
comes to US today, and he promises all lux.
uries and emoiuments IL we will only serve
him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! "Ths
wages of sin is DEATH" Oh, the young man
OF the text was wise when he utterrd the res
olution. Il will arise and go to my father!'
In the time of Mary, the prosecutor, perse-
cutor came to u Christian woman who had
hidden in her house for the Lords sake one
OF Christ's servants, and the prosecutor said,
"where is that heretic?" The Christian wo-
man said, You open that trunk, and yor
will see the heretic.'' The prosecutor opened
trunk he sa glass. He said, ''There Is nc
hereto here" 'Ah"' she said. ''You looh
in the glass, and YOU will see the heretic."
As take up the mirror Of Gods word to-
day would that instead OF seeing the prod
igal of the text we might see ourseives-ouI
want, our wandering our sin, our lost con-
dition. SO that we might be rs wise as this
young man was and say. 81 will arise and
go to my father" The resolution Of thii
text was formed in a disgust at his present
circumstances. If this young man had beer
by his employer set to culturing flowers, OF
training vines over ~u arbor, or keeping an
account of the pork market. or overseeing
other laborers, he would not have thought OF
going home-if he had had his pockets full
OF money; if he had been able to say: 81 have
$1,000 now of my own. What's the use oi
my going back to my fathers houseI Dc
you think I'm going back to apologize to the
old mani Why, he would put me on the
limits. He would not have going on around
the old place such conduct rs 1 have been
engaged in. l won't go home. There Is nc
reason why should go home. have plenty
of money. plenty of pleasant surroundings.
why should go home?" All. IT was his
tnupersm, 1t was his beggary! He had to
20 home. Some man comes and says to me-
"Why do you talk about the ruined state oi
the human soul? Why don't you speak
esntury ami talk of something more
sxhIlarsting2" 1t is for this rea-
sori A man never wants the gospel un'
III no realizes he is in a famine struck State.
suppose should come to you in your home,
AMI you are in good. sound, robust health,
AMI l should begin to talk about medicines,
aud about how much better this medicine Id
than that and some other medicine than
come other medicine, and talk about this
physician and that physician, After awhile
you would get tired, and you weuld .'ay'
~ don't want to hear about medicines why
have doctor" But suppose / come iAtd
your house, and find you severely eiek and
know the medicines that will euro you, and
know the physician who is skillful enough
to meet your case. You say: Bring on all
that medicine; bring on that physician.
am territiy iy sick and want help" II
come 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 sickness:
Oh, then yon say. "Bring me that balm OF
the gospel; bring me that divine medics
ment; bring me Jesus Christ"
But" says some one In tho audience,
show do you know that we are In . ruined
condition by sini" Well, can prove it in
can prove it either by the statements Of men
or by the statement Of God. Which shall Il
be3 You say, Let us have the statement OF
God" Well, He says in one place, "rhe
heart is deceitful above all things and desper-
ately wicket" He says Ia another place,
| he which is born of woman that he should
be righteous2" He says in another
| place, "There is none that doeth good
| no, not one" He says in another place.
"As by one man sin entered into the world,
| and death by sin, and so death passed upon
| all men, fer that all had sinned." "Weli, !"
| you say, Il am willing to acknowledge that,
but why should take the particular rescue
i that you propose?" This Is the reason: "Ex-
| cept a 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. "
| hen there are thousand voices here ready
| to say: well. I am ready to accept this
| help of the gospel. I would Ike to have
this divine cure. How shall 60 to work2''
| Let me say that m.re whim, an underlined
| longing, amounts to nothing. You must
| have "a stout, a tremendous resolution like
this young man of the text when he said, 81
| will arise ami go to my father" "Oh," says
| sor1e man, show do know my father wants
mel How do know II I go back I would
4 be received?" "Oh," says some man, 'you
don't know where l have been. You don't
know how Jar l have wandered. You
! wouldn't talk that way to me II you knew
! all the iniquities have committed" What
| IL that fiutter among the angels OF Godi
| What is that horseman running with quick
I dispatch? 1t is news! 1t 10 newsl Christ
| has found the lost.
| Nor angels can their Joy contain,
But kindle with new fire.
The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre
When Napoleon talked Of going into Italy.
Il IL