Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-10

81 WILL ARISE AND GO TO ny FA-
THER."

Rev. DIR. Talmage breaches the Old Fash
ioned Gospel In His New Fashioned way
The Prodigars Return and Forgiveness
by the Father.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-A most rad
ical gospel sermon Is the one OF TO-DAY
bv DR.. Talmage. It'runs up and down
the whole gamut Of glorious invitation.
His text was Luke XIV, Is, Il Will arise
and 90 to my father. "
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy ont Of man. a hungry man
ran toll neither with pen nor hand nor
foot. There has been many an army de-
feated not so much for lack Of ammunl-
tion as for lack Of bread. 1t was that
fact that took the fire out Of tins young
man of the text. Storm and exposure
will wear out any mans life III tllne'
but hunger makes quick work. The most
awful cry ever heard on earth Is the cry
for bread a traveller tells us that III
Asia Minor there are trees which bear
fruit looking very much like the long
bean of our time. 1t is called the caroO.
Once in awhile the people, reduced TO
destitution, would eat these carobs, nus
Generally the carobs-the beans spoken
of here in the text-were thrown only 10
the swine. and they crunched them with
great ayidity But this young man OF
nv text could not even get them WITH
ont stealing them. So one dav, amid the
swine troughs, he begins to sollloqulze'
He saws: "These are no clothes for a
rich mans son to wear. This Is no KIND
of business for Jew to be engaged IN
feeding swine. I'll go home. III 90
home Twill arise and 60 to my father
I know there are a great many people
who try to throw fascination, TO
nance. a halo, about sin; but, notwith'
standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to 1t, 1t Is
mean. low. contemplate business, and
putting food and fodder into the trough'
of a herd Of iniquities that root ano
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 youns
man resolved to go home 1t was very
wise thing for him to do, and the only
onestion is whether we will follow him
Satan promises large wages if we VII
serve him, but he clothes his victims
with rags, and he pinches them witt
hunger, and when they start out 70 d'
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 to the pit 1.-The wage
of sin is death" Oh, the young man o
the text was wise when he uttered tn
resolution. 81 will arise and go to N.
fatherl" In the time of Mary, the perse
cutor, a prosecutor came to Chrisiial
woman who had hidden in her house 10
the Lords sake one Of Christ's servants
and the prosecutor said, "Where Is tina
heretic?'' The Christian woman said
"You open that trunk, and you VIII Sc
! the hereto. The prosecutor opened I'd
trunk, and on the top Of the linen OF IN
trunk be saw a glass. He said, liner
is no hereto here. " "AhV' she saio
"You look in the glass, and you VIII Sc
. the hereto. "
Our Lost Condition.
As take up the mirror of God
word today would that instead OF sec
ing the prodigal of the text we migl
see ourselves-our want, our waluel
, ,np. our sin, our lost condition, SO 'i'
we might be as wise as this young ma
was and say, II will arise and 60 TO III
father. " The resolution Of this text WI
formed in a disgust at his present eli
oumstances. If this young man had pee
by his employer set to culturing nov
u ers. or training vines over an aroor'
keeping an account Of the pork marke
or overseeing other laborers, lie woul
not have thought Of going home-i
- had had his pockets full Of money II
b. had been able to say; 81 have $i,O'
now Of nv own. What's the use OF II
ooine back to my fathers housef !
o Won think I'm going back to apologl
4 10 the old man2 Why, he would put Il
ON the limits. He would not have gon
" ON around the old place such conduct
y have been engaged in. / won't
1 home. There is no reason why shon
90 home. / have plenty Of none
plenty Of pleasant surroundings w
Il should go homer" Ah, it was his pa
d verism, it was his beggary de haa