The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-06
Hoods SarsapariIIa
The Blood Purifier and True Nerve Tonic

| thing after a father has done everything
for child to have that child ungrateIui'
How sharper than serpent's tooth it is,
To have thankless child.
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son is
the heaviness of his mother" That is the
Bible. Wen, my friends, have not some
of us been cruel prodigalS2 Have we not
maltreated our Father? And such a IA
therl Three times a day has ne fed thee.
He has poured sunlight into thy day and
at night kindled up all the streetlamps OF
heaven. With what varieties of apparel
he hath clothed thee for the seasons;
Whose eyes watches thee? Whose hand
defends thee2 Whose heart sympathiZes
with thee? Who gave you your childrenE
Who is guarding your loved ones depart
ed? Such a Father So loving. so kind: II
he had been a stranger; If he had torsaken
us; If he had fagellated US; II he had
pounded us and turned us out OF doors
on the commons. il would not have been
so wonderful-our treatment of him; but
he is "a Father so loving, so kind, ana yet
how many of us for our wandering have
never apolOgiZedi If we say anything that
hurts our friends feelings. if we do any
thing that hurts the feelings of those in
whom we are interested. how quickly we
apOlJgizei We can scarcely wait until We
get pen and paper to write a letter or
apology How easy It is for any one VINO
is intelligent, right-hearted, to write an
apology, or make an apology! We apollo
gize for wrongs done to our fellows; but
thousand times ten thousand wrongs
against God and never apologiZed.
tion of the text was founded in feeling
of home sickness. l do not know how long
this young man, how many months how
many years he had been away from his
father $ house. but there is something
about the reading of my text that makes
me think he was homesick. Some OF you
know what that feeling is. Far away
from home sometimes. surrounded by ev-
erything bright and pleasant-plenty or
friends-you have said: Il would give the
world to be home tonight" Well this
young man was homesick for his fathers
house. L have no doubt when he thought
of his fathers house he said: Now, per-
haps father may not be living. We read
nothing in this story--this parable-found-
ed on everyday lfe--we read nothing
about the mother. 1t says nothing about
going home to her. ] think she was dead.
/ think she had died of a broken heart at
his wanderings, or, perhaps he had gone
into dissipation from the TACT that ne
could not remember a loving and sympa-
thetic mother. A man never gets over haV-
ing lost his mother. Nothing said about
her, but he is homesick 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 II Things
were as they used to be. Many a man
after having been off a long while has
gone home and knocked at the door, and
a stranger has come. II is the ola nome
stead hut "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. Perhaps father may be dead"
Still, he starts to find out. He is homesick.
Are there any here to-day hOmeSick Tor
God. homesick for heaven? sailor af-
ter having been long on the sea, returned
to his fathers house, and his mother tried
TO persuade him not to go away again. She
said; Now, you had better stay at nome no
You will have it a great deal better here"
But it made him angry. The night before
he went away again to sea, he heard his
mother praying in the next room, and that
made him more angry. He went tar out
on the sea, and a storm came up and ne
was ordered to very perilous duty, and he
ran up the ratlines, and amid the shrouds
of the shin he heard the voice that he had
heard in the next room. lie tried TO whistle
il off he tried to rally his courage; but
he could not silence the voice he had heard
in the next room, and there in the storm
and darkness he said, 20 Lord! what
wretch | have been? What a wretch 1
am Help me just now, Lord God" And l
thought in this semblage to-day there
may be some who may have the memory
of a fathers petition, or a mothers prayer
pressing nightly upon the soul, and that
this hour they may make the same resolu-
ton l find in my text, Saying. L VIII arse
A lad at Liverpool W ent out to battle:
went out into the sea- went out too far,
got beyond his depth and he floated far
away A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him on board. Sailors are
generally very generous fellows, and one
gave him cap, and another gave him
| a Jacket, and another gave him shoes. \
| gentleman passing along on the beach at
Liverpool found the lads clothes and took
them home and the father was heart
broken, the mother was heartbrOken, 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
| mourning arrived. He knocked at the
door. the father was overjoyed and the
| mother was overjoyed at the return of
| their lost son. oh, my friends have you
| Il a IA
! down into sin? Have you waded from the
! shore? VIII you come back? When you
come back will you come in the rags of
! your sin, or Will you come ROBBED in the
| SaViours righteousness? l 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, IL was Immediately put in
! TO execution. The context says he arose
ana came 70 ms father. The trouble in
| nine houndred and ninety-nine times Ouc
| of thousand is that our resolutions
| amount to nothing, because we make them
! for some distant time. il | resolve to be-
! come Christian next year, that amounts
| to nothing at all. If 1 resolve to become
| Christian tomorrow, that amounts 10
| nothing at all. If resolve at the service
| this Gay to become Christian, that
! amounts to nothing at all If l resolve
| after l go home to-day to yield my heart
/ to God, that amounts to nothing at al;
| The only kind of resolution that amounts
! to anything is the resolution that is i'm
| mediately put into execution. There Is d
tlttiiA 4iel'. tA4I ~ p4lDlN lever. ne SAID.
! "Oh, If / could get over this terrible ais
tress; il this fever should depart; if
could be restored TO health, / would ali
| the rest of my life serve God" The fever
| departed. He got well enough TO walk
| around tho block. He got well enough 10
! 80 over 10 business. He IS we'll to-day
| as well os he ever was. Where is the
! broken VOW There is a man who said.
] long ago; II could live TO the year 1895
! by that time ! will have my business maj
| tiers an arranged, and ] will have time 10
! attend 70 religion, and i viii be a good
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