The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-04-16

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| Whiln, or underlined longing amounts to
nothing. You must have q stout, q
| tremendous resolution like this young
man i'll the text when he said: Il Will
arise and go to my father OH"
| says some young man, how do I Know
my father wants me? How do i know
| If [ go backlsI would be receiyedy'
Oh says some man. you don t know
! where have been; you dom sknow how
far / have wandered; you wouldn't
talk that way to me il you knew Of all
| the iniquities have committed. = w hat
I is that futter among the angels OF
| God 4 What is that horseman running
with quick dispatch? Tt is news! 1t is
news! 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 goingsinto
! Italy, they said, ''Y on can't get there.
1t you knew what the Alps We're you
wouldn't talk about it OF think about
it. You can't get your ammunition
wagons over the Alps.'' Then Ma
poleon rose in his .stirrups,s and, way.
ing his hand toward the mountains, he
said, ''There shall be no Alps!' That
wonderful pass was laid out which has
been the wonder of the all the years
since the wonderment Of all engin-
GERS. And you tell me there are such
mountains of sin, between your soul
and God, there is no mercy. Then ]
see Christ waving his hand toward
the mountains. l hear him say, II will.
come over the mountains of thy sin
hn 1c Of mir, w.
shall be no Pyrenees; there shall be no.
Alps.
Again: [ notice that this resolution
of the young man of my text was
founded in SORROW at his misbehayior.
1t was not mere physical plight. It
was grief that he had so maltreated
his father. 1t is a sad thing after a
father has done everything for child
to have, that child ungrateful
How sharper than a serpent's tooth
it is,
To have a thankless child.
That is Shakespeare. "a foolish son
is the heaviness Of his mother That
is the Bible. Well, my friends, have
not some of us been cruel prodigals?
Have we not maltreated cur Father?
And such a father! Three times q day
has he fed thee. He has poured sun
light into thy day and at night kindled
up all the street lights of heaven.
With what varieties Of apparel he
hath clothed thee for the season.
Whose eye watches thee? Whose hand
defends thee? Whose heart symDa-
thizes with thee? Who gave you your
children? Who is guarding your loved
ones departed? Such Father! So
| loving, so kind. If he had been a
stranger; if he had forsaken US; if he
had tiagellated us; if he had pounded
us and turned us out of doors on the
commons. it would not have been so
/ WOnderful-our treatment Of him; but
he is Father, so loving so kind, and
| yet how many of us for our wandering
have never apologized! If we say any
| thing that hurts our friends feelings,
if we do anything that hurts the feel
| ings of those in whom we are interes-
| ted how quickly we apologize We
can scarcely wait until we get pen and
paper to write a letter of apology.
| How easy it is for anyone who is in
telligent, right-hearted, to write an
apology, or make an apology. We
apologize for wrongs done to our fell
| lows, but some Of us perhaps have
committed ten thousand times ten
! thousand wrongs against God and
| never apologized.
l remark still further, that this reso-
! luton of the text was founded in a
| feeling Of inconsistencies. I do not
! know how long this young man. how
many months, how many years he had
| been away from his fathers house,
| but there is something about the read
! ing of my text that makes me think
| no 1,>rN I'll q ~
what that feeling is. Far away from
home sometimes, surrounded by every
| thing bright and pleasant-plenty Of
friends-you have said: II would give
the world to be home tonight" Well,
this young man was homesick for his
| fathers house. I have no doubt when
he thought of his fathers house he
said: "Now, perhaps father may not
be living" We read nothing in this
story-this para ble-founded on every
| day life-We read nothing about
mother. 1t says nothing about going
home to her. | think she was dead.
l think she had died Of a broken heart
at his wanderings, or, perhaps he had
gone into dissipation from the fact
that he could not remember a loving
and sympathetic mother. A man never
gets over having lost his mother
Morning SalQ ABOUT her, but he is home
sick for his fathers house He thought
he. would just like to go and walk
around the old place. He thought he
would just like to go and see if things
We're as they used to be. Many man
after having been off a long while has
gone home and knocked at the door,
and q stranger has come. 1t is the
old homestead but a stranger comes
| to the door. He finds out father is
| gone, and mother is gone, and brothers
and sisters all gone. [ think this young
man of, the text said to himself, s.Per-
| haps father may be dead" Still he
starts to find out. He is homesick.
Are there any here to-day hOmesick
or after having been long on the sea re
after having been long on the sea, re
turned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to
go away again. She said, 'Now, you
had better stay at home. Don't go
away. We don't want you to so. You
will have it a great deal better here
But it made him angry. The night
| before he went away = p.ain$ ia 500 -hn