The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-04-10
THE TURNING POINT,
az WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FA-
THEIR"

Rev. DIR. Talmage breaches the Old Fash
toned Gospel In His New Fashioned Way
The Prodigaps Return and Forgiveness
by the Father.
WASHINGTON, April ga most rad
ical gospel sermon is the one of today
by DR.. Talmage. 1t runs up and down
the whole gamut of glorious invitation.
His text was Luke XIV, IS, 81 will arise
and go to my father
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out of man. A hungry man
can toll neither with pen nor hand nor
foot. There has been many an army de-
feated not SO much for lack of ammuni-
tion as for lack of bread. 1t was that
fact that took the fire 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 is the Cry
for bread. A traveller tells us that in
Asia Minor there are trees which bear
fruit looking very much like the long
bean of our time. 1t is called the carob.
Once in awhile the people, reduced to
restitution, would eat these CAROLS, but
generally the carobs-the beans spoken
of here in the text-were thrown only to
the swine, and they crunched them with
great avidity. But this young man of
my text could not even get them with
out stealing them. So one day, amid the
swine troughs, he begins to soliloquize.
He says: "These are no clothes for
rich mans son to wear. This is no kind
of business for Jew to be engaged in,
feeding swine. I'll go home. I'll 60
home Twill arise and go to my father
know there are great many people
who try to throw fascination, a ro-
nance, a halo, about sin; but, notwith-
standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to it, it is a
mean, low, contemplate business, and
putting food and fodder into the troughs
Of herd of iniquities that root and
wallow in the soul of man is very
poor business for men and women in
tended to be sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty, and when this young
man resolved to 60 home it was very
wise thing for him to do, and the only
question is whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large wages if we will
serve him, but he clothes his victims
with rags, and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they start out to do
better he sets after them all the blood. |
hounds of hell. Satan comes to us today,
and he promises all Injuries and emolu-
ments if we will only serve him. Liar,
down with thee to the pit 1.-THE wages
of sin is death" Oh, the young man of |
the text was wise when he uttered the |
resolution, II will arise and go to my
fatherP' In the time of Mary, the perse-
cutor, prosecutor came to 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 woman said,
'You open that trunk, and you will see
the hereto" The prosecutor opened the
trunk, and on the top of the linen of the
trunk he saw glass He said, "There
is no hereto here" "Ah!" she said
you look in the glass, and you will see
the hereto. -
Our Lost Condition.
AS / take up the mirror of God
word today would that instead of see
ing the prodigal of the text we might
see ourselves-our want, our wander
ing, our sin, our lost condition, so that
we might be as wise as this young man
was and say, Il will arise and go to my
father. " The resolution of this text was
formed in disgust at his present cir
,umstances. If this young man had been
BY his employer set to culturing flow
BIS, or training vines over an arbor, or
keeping an account of the pork market,
,r overseeing other laborers, he would
1ot have thought of going home-if he
1ad had his pockets full of money if he
had been able to say II have $1,000
sow of my own. What's the use of my
going back to my fathers house? Do
you think I'm going back to apologize
70 the old man? Why, he would put me
IN the limits. He would not have going
IN around the old place such conduct as
have been engaged in. 1 won't go
ZONE. There is no reason why / should {
20 home. l have plenty of money,
,lenty of pleasant surroundings. Why
hould go homer" All. it was his pau.
,erism, it was his beggary! He had to
20 home Some man comes and says to
ne: why do you talk about the ruined /
tate of the ! imam soul? Why don t you
peak about the progress of the nine
zenith century and talk of something l
more exhilarsting?" 1t is for this rea- {
on: A man never wants the gospel un- q
il be realizes he is in famine struck c
tate. Suppose should come to You in /
our home, and you are in good, sound, '
obust health, and l should begin to L
ak about medicines, and about how b
much better this medicine is than that, L
nd some other medicine than some b
ther medicine, and talk about this ply L
ician and that physician. After awhile l
GU would get tired, and you would say g
i don't want to hear about medicines. t
Why do you talk to me of physicians? I b
ever have a doctor. But suppose / t
ONE into your house, and find you Sc !
erely sick, and l know the medicines i
hat will cure you, and l know the ply C
ician who is skillful enough to meet ]
our case. You say: Bring ON all that b
ledicine; bring ON that physician. / a