Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-09
EASTER SERMON.
:cv. DR.. Talmage Recounts the Story
of the Prodigal Son.
lie Longed for the Dear Old Faces Mt Homo
Then RIOS" Up aud Went to His
Father, who Warmly We'll
coined His hoy.

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to my father"
the energy out of a man. A hungry
man can toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot. There has been many an
army defeated, not so much for lack of
ammunition rs for lack Of bread. IL
was that fact that took the fire out Of
| this Young man of the text. Storm and
exposure viii wear out any mans life
in time, hut hunger makes quick work.
| The most awful cry ever heard ON earth
/ is the cry for bread. A traveller tells
MS that in Asia Minor there are trees
which bear fruit looking very much
like the long bean Of our time. IL
| Is called the caroh. Once in a
while the people. reduced To dcsti-
| tuition, would eat these carobs,
but generally the CAROLS. the beans
| spoken of here in the text, were
| thrown only Ia the swine, and they
,runchcd them with great nvidity. But
this young man Of my text could not
even get them without stealing them.
80 one day. amid the swine troughs, he
begins To soliloquize. He says: These
are no clothes for n rich mans son to
wear: this is no kind of business for n
Jew to be engaged in, feeding swine;
III 60 home: III go home; | will arise
and go to my father" I know there
are great many people who try to
throw fascination, n romance, halo
about sin; but notwithstanding all
that Lord byron and George sand have
said in regard to it, it is n
mean, low, contemplate business,
and putting food and fodder into the
troughs of herd OF iniqnities that
root and wallow in the soul of man is q
very poor business for men and women
| intended to be- sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty. and when this
Young man resolved to go home it was
very wise thing for him to do, and
the only question is whether we will
| follow him. Satan promises large
wages IL we will serve him, hut he
clothes his victims with rags, and he
pinches them with hanger and when
they start out TO do better he sets after
them all the blood hounds of hell. Sa-
tan comes to us to-day and
he promises all luxurics and emolu-
ments il we will only serve him. Liar.
Down with thee To the pit! The
wages of sin is death" Oh! the young
man of the text was wise when he ut
tered the resolution, IL will arise and
| go to my father" In the time of Mary,
the prosecutor, n prosecutor came to n
| Christian woman who had hidden in
her house for the Lords sake one of
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said: Where is that heretic?' The
Christian woman said: You open that
trunk and you will see the hereto. "
| The prosecutor opened the trunk, and
on top Of the linen of the trunk he saw
glass. lie said: There is no hereto
here" "Ah," she said, you look in
the glass and you will see the hereto"
AS I take up the mirror of Gods
word to-day | would that. instead of
seeing the prodigal of the text, we
might see ourselvcs-our want, our
wandering. our sin, our lost condition,
SO that we might he as wise as this
young man and say, 81 will arise and
go to my father" The resolution of
this text was formed in n disgust at
his present circumstances. IL this
young man had been by his employer
set to culturing flowers, or training
vines over an arbor, or keeping an ac-
count of the pork market, or overseeing
other laborers, he would not
have thought of going home.
/ II he had had his pockets full
of money. IL he had been
able to say: Il have thousand dollars
now of my own; what's the use of my
4 going back to my fathers house? Doyou
think I'm going back to apologize to
the old man? Why, he would put me
on the limits. lie would not have go
/ ing on around the old place such con-
duct as | have been engaged in.
won't go home. have plenty of mon
ey-plenty of pleasant surroundings.
Why should go homer All! it was
/ his pauperism, it was his beggary.
lie had to go home. Some man comes
and says to me: "Wsy do you
talk about the ruined state of the
human soul? Why don't you speak
about the progress of the nineteenth
century and talk of something more
exhilerating?" 1t is for this reason: A
man never wants the gospel until he
realizes he is in a famine struck state.
suppose / should come to you in your
home, and you are in good, sound, ro-
bust health, and l should begin to tall;
about medicines. and about how much
better this medicine is than that, and
some other medicine than some other
medicine, and talk about this physician
and that physician, after awhile you
would get tired, and you would say
Il don't want to hear about
medicines. Why do you talk to
me of physicians? never
have a doctor" But suppose 1 come
into your house and / find you severe.
ly sick, and l know the medicines that
will cure you, and l know the physi.
clan who is skillful enough to meet your
case. You say: Bring on all that
medicine; bring on that physician.
am terribly sick and want help" If
come to you, and you feel all right in
body, and all right in mind, and al
right in soul, you have need of nothing
hut suppose have persuaded you that
the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst
of all sickness. Oil then you say
Bring me that balm of the Gospel
bring me that divine medicament bring
me Jesus Christ" But" says some
one in the audience, show do you know
that we are in n ruined condition by
sin?' Well, can prove it in two ways
and you may have your choice. / car
prove it either by the statements o.
men or by the statement of God
Which shall it be? You say, Let u.
have the statement of God" Well, ii,
says in one place, The heart is deceit
full above all things and desperately
wicked" He says in another place
what is man that he should be clean.
and he which is born of woman. tha'
he should be righteous?' He says il
another place, There is none tina
doeth good-no, not one" He says il
another place, LAS by one man sin en-
tered into the world, and death by sin
and SO death passed upon all men, fol
all that had sinned." well" you say
II am willing to acknowledge that
but why should / take the particular
rescue that you propose?" This is thu
reason: There is one name given un
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