Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-04-06
THE TURNING POINT.
al WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY IA
TIER"

Rev. DIR. Tainage breaches the Old Fash
toned Gospel in His New Fashioned Way.
The ProdigaI.s Return and Forgiveness
by the Father.
WASHINGTON, April GA most rad
ical gospel sermon is the one of today
by DIR. Talmags. 1t runs up and down
the whole gamnt Of glorious invitation.
His text was Luke XIV, IS, Ct will arise
and go to my father. -
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out of a 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 Tt was that
fact that took the fire out OF this young
man Of the text. Storm and exposure
will wear GU any MANS life in time,
but hunger makes quick work The most
awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry
for bread. = traveller tells US that in
Asia Minor there are trees which bear
fruit locking very much like the long
bean Of our time. 1t is called the carOb
Once in awhile the people, reduced to
restitution, you'd eat these CAROLS, but
generally the carobs-the beans spoken
Of here in tie text-were thrown only to
the swine, aid they crunched them with
great aviditv. But this young man Of
my text could not even get them with
out stealing them. So one day, amid tie
swine troughs, he begins to soliloquiZo.
He says: These are no clothes fO: a
rich mans son to wear. This is no kind
of business fer @ Jew to be engaged in.
feeding s:gine. I'll go home. I'll go
home VIII arise and go to my father.
know there are great many people
who try I'd throw q fascination, a ro-
nance. halo, about sin; but, notwith
standing al that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to it, it is q
mean, low. contemplate business, and
putting fO.d and fodder into the troughs
of q hero of iniquities that root and
wallow IL The soul of man is very
poor business for men and women in
tended to re sons and daughters Of the
Lord Almighty, and when this young
man resolved to go home it was very
wise thing iOr 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, AID 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 luxuries and emolu-
ments if we will only serve him. Liar,
down with thee 20 the pit "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, q 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,
lyon 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 Il glass He said, ''There
is no hereto here. . 'tAhi'' she said.
''You look in the glass, and you Will see
the hereto.
Our Lost Condition.
As I take up the mirror of Gods
word today would thau 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 shis young man
was and say, 81 will arise and go to my
father. - The resolution Of this text was
formed in disgust at his present cir
cumstances. If this young man had been
by his employer set to culturing flow
ers, or training vines over an arbor, or
keeping an account of the pork market,
or overseeing other laborers, he would
not have thought of going home-if he
had had his pockets fill of money if he
had been able to say: 81 have $1,000
now Of my own. WHAT'S the use of my
going back to my fathers house? Do
you think I'm going back to apologize
to the old man? Why. he would put me
ON the limits. He wonld not have going
ON around the old place such conduct as
have been engaged in. I won't go
home. There is no reason why should
go home. 1 have plenty of money,
plenty of pleasant surroundings. Why
should I go homer All, it was his pau
perism, it was his heggaryl He had to
go home. Some man comes and says to
me: why do you talk about the ruined
state of the human soul? Why don t you
speak about the progress of the nine
teenth century and talk of something
more exhilarating?" 1t is for this rea-
son A man never wants the gospel IN
til he realizes he is in famine struck
state. Suppose should come to you in
your home, and you are in good, sound,
robust health, and 1 should begin to
talk about medicines, and about how
much better this medicine is than that,
and some ether medicine than some
other medicine, and talk about this ply
stefan and that physician. After awhile
you would get tired, and you would say
ST don't want to hear about medicines.
Why do you talk to me of physicians? I
never have a doctor. - But suppose
come into your house, and I find you Sc
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