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


Dublin came along and took him
aboard. Sailors are generally very
I generous fellows, and one gave him a.
cap, and another gave him u Jacket,
and another gave him shoes. "a gentle
man passing along on the beach at
| Liverpool found the lads clothes and
took them home, and the father was
l8heaft-brolS the mother was heart
broken, at the loss Of their child. They
had heard nothing from him day after
| day, and they ordered the. usual
mourning for the sad event. But the
lad took ship from Dublin and arrived
| in Liverpool the very day the mourn
ing arrived. He knocked at the door,
father was OVerjoyed and the mother
4 was oyerjoyed at the return of their
lost lost SON s1.n Oh, my friends, have you
| Waded out too deep? Have you waded
down into sin? Have you waded from
the. shore? Will you come back?
When YOU come back will you come
in the rags of your sin, or will YOU
! come robed in the SaVior's righteous
ness. . believe the latter. Go home
to your God to-day He is waiting for
you. Go home!
| But remark the Characteristic Of
| this resolution was, it was Immediate
sly put into execution. The context
says he arose and came to his faith
er. The trouble in 900 times out Of a
thousand is that our resolutions
amount to nothing, because we make
them for some distant time. If [ re-
4 solve to become a Christian next year,
/ that amounts to nothing at all. IF /
/ resolve to become a Christian to-mor-t
| row, that amounts to nothing at all.
! It 1$resolve at the service this day to
! become a Christian, that amounts to
nothing at all. If resolve after I go
home to-day to yield my heart to God,
| that amounts to nothing at ALL The
|sonly kind of resolution that amounts
to anything is the resolution that is
immediately put into execution There
| is a man who had the typhoid fever.
he said: 30! if 1 could get over this
| terrible distress; if this fever should
depart; il could be restored to health.
l would all the rest of my life serve
| God. The fever departed He got
well enough to go over to business.
| He is well to-day-as well as he ever
| was. Where is the broken VOW
There is man who said not long ago:
| If | could live to the year 1896, by
! that time [ will have my business
matters arranged, and l will have
time to attend to religion, and l will
| be good, thorough, consecrated
| Christian"
The year 1896 has come January,
February, March, April-a fourth Of
the year gone: Where is your broken
vow? Oh says some man. ''Tll at
tend to that when / get my character
liked up, when | get over my evil hab-
It's; am now given to strong drink
or, says the man.. 81 am given to dis
honesty. When get over my present
habits, then I'll be a thorough Chris
tian." My brother, you will get worse
and worse until Christ takes you in
hand. ''Not the righteous sinners Jesus:
came to call" Oh, but you say, 81
agree with you in that, but must put
it off little longer.'' Do you know
there were many who came just as
near as you are to the kingdom of God
and never entered it? I was at East
hampton, and [ went into the GEM
etery to look around, and in that Gem
etery there are twelve graves side by
side-the graves Of sailors. This crew,
/ some years ago, in a ship went into
4 the breakers at Amagansett, about
. three miles away. My brother, then
then preaching at Easthampton, had
been to the burial. These mensof the
/ crew came very near being saved The
oAAA
sci and they shot rockets and they
sent ropes from the shore, and these
| poor fellows got into the boat, and
they pulled nightly for the shore, but
| just before they got to the shore the
rope snapped and the boat capsized,
and they were lost, their bodies after
ward washed upon the beach. Oh!
what solemn day it Was-I have been
/ told Of it by my brother-when these
| twelve men lay at the foot of the pull
pit and he read over them the funeral
service. They came very near shore
within shouting distance of the shore.
yet did not arrive on solid land. There
are some men who come almost to the
shore Of Gods mercy, but not quite,
not quite. To be almost saved is to be
lost! -
! will tell you Of two prodigals-
one that got back and the other that
did not get back. In Richmond. Va,
4 there is very prosperous and beauti-
full home in many respects. A young
man wandered off from that home. He
! wandered very far into sin. They
heard of him after, but he was always
on the wrong track. He would not go
home. At the door of that beautiful
home one night there was a great out
cry. The young man Of the house ran
down to open the door to see what was
the matter. It was midnight The
rest of Inc family were asleep. There
were the wife and children of this
prodigal young man. The fact was he
had come home and driven them out.
He said: '.Out of this house. Away
I with these children; [ will dash their
4 brains out. Out into the storm!"4s The
mother gathered them up and fled.
I The next morning the brother. the
l young man who staid al home. went
out to find this prodigal brother and
son, and he came where he was, and
saw the young man wandering up and
4 down in front of the place where he
had been staying, and the young man
! who had kept his integrity said to the
A older brother: Here, what does all
this mean? What is the matter with
4 you? Why do you act in this way z"
The prodigal looked at him and said:
= 'sWho am I? Who do you take me to
B be-" He said: You are my brother
mo, I am not. I am a brute. Have
4 you seen any thing of my wife and chill
Il dren2 Are thew dead2 drove them