The Monitor-register., 1896-04-10

70 80; ! resolve after l go home TODAY
70 yield my heart to God, that amonn.
TO nothing at all. The only kind ~ salS
iutlon that amounts to anvtbina .eso-
execution. put into
mere Is a man who had the tvnho;a
esel' ne said: "Oh. if I could oct ovor
Snls terripie distress, if this fever sbon1a
qepart' II l could be restored to bea,th
"o.,u an the rest of my life serve
ZOO, The fever departed. He cot well
enough to walk around the block H.
got well enough to go over 70 h,,s;,oaS
ne is well today-as we'll as he aver
was Where is the broken VOW? There Is
mar who said long ago, eff I could
W. 70 the year 1896, by that time |
Will V my business matters ALI ar-
ranged, and l will have time to attend
10 rellglon, and I will be a good. thor
oush, consecrated Christian" The wear
1870 has come. January, February.
march, April-a third of the wear zone
Where is your broken VOW? "Oh.,, saws
some man, "I1l attend to that when /
get my character fixed up, when I can
get over my evil habits. 1 am now Civ
en- to strong drink" Or, says the man.
i am given to uncleanness." Or. saws
tne man, II am given to dishonesty.
Mnen get over my present habits, then
III De thorough Christian" Ny BROTH
er, you will get worse and worse until
Christ takes you in hand. "Not the
righteous, sinners Jesus came to CALL"
On but you say, 81 agree with you in
al That, but l must put it off a little
longer" Do you know there were many
VINO came just as near as you are to the
Kingdom of God and never entered it? l
was at Easthampton, and I went into
the cemetery to look around, and in that
cemetery there are IL graves side by side
the graves of sailors. This crew, some
years ago, in a ship went into the break
ers at A~magansett, about three miles
away. My brother, then preaching at
Easthampton, had been at the burial.
These men of the crew came very near
being saved. The people from Amagan-
sett saw the vessel, and they shot rock
cts, and they sent ropes from the shore,
and these poor fellows got into the boat,
and they pulled nightly for the shore,
but just before they got to the shore the
rope snapped and the boat capsized, and
they were lost, their bodies afterward
washed upon the beach. Oh, what a
solemn day it was-I have been told of
it by my brother-when these 10 men
lay at the foot of the pulpit, and he read
over them the funeral service. They
came very near shore-within shouting
distance of the shore-yet did not arrive
on solid land. There are some men who
come almost to the shore of Gods
mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be
almost saved is to be lostl
Two Prodigals.
I will tell you of two prodigals-the
one that got back and the other that did
not get back. In Richmond there is a
very prosperous and beautiful home in
many respects. A young man wandered
off from that home. He wandered very
far into sin. They heard of him after,
but he was always on the wrong track.
He would not go home. At the door of
that beautiful home one night there was
a great cutlery. The young man Of the
uOuS6 Tall uOWu W Opou lu6 uOUI ~ S6o
what was the matter. 1t was midnight.
The rest of the family were asleep.
Thert we're the wife and children of this
prodisal young man. The fact was he
had COME home and driven them out.
He sRid "Out of this housed Away
with these childrenl will dash their
brains ehtl Out into the storm - The
mother gathered them up and fled. The
next morning the brother, the young
man who had staid at home, went out
to find this prodigal brother and son,
and he came to where he was and saw the
young man wandering up and down in
front of the place where he had been
staying, and the young man who had
kept his integrity said to the older broth
er: "Here, what does all this mean?
What is the matter with you? Why do
you act in this way?" The prodigal
looked at him and said: "Who am 1?
Who do you take me to be?" He said,
"You are my brother. "No, I am not.
I am a brute. Have you seen anything
of my wife and children? Are they
dead? I drove them out last night in
the storm. I am a brute. John, do you
think there is any help for me? Do you
think I will ever get over this life of dis
sipation?" He said, "John, there is one
thing that will stop this" The prod
igal ran his fingers across his throat
and said: ''That will stop it, and I will
stop it before night. Oh, my brainl I
can stand it no longer" That prodigal
never got home. But I will tell you of
a prodigal that did get home. In Eng
land two young men started from their
fathers house and went down to Ports
mouth have been there-a beautiful
seaport. Some of you have been there.
The father could not pursue his children
for some reason he could not leave
homeland SO he wrote a letter down to
Mr.. Griffin, saying:
"Mr. Griffin, l wish you would go
and see my two sons. They have arrived
in Portsmouth, and they are going to
take ship and going away from home,
I wish you would persuade them back"
Mr.. Griffin went and tried to per-
suade them back. He persuaded one to
go. He went with very easy persuasion,
because he was very homesick already,
The other young man said: 81 will not
go. I have had enough of home. I'll
never go home" "Well," said Mr..
Griffin, "then if you won't go home, I'll
get you a respectable position on a re-
spectacle ship" "No, you WON'T" said
the prodigal. "No you won't. I am go
ing as a private sailor, as a common
sailor; that will plague my father most,
and what will do most to tantalize and
worry him will please me best" Years
passed on, and Mr.. Griffin was seated in
his study one day when a messenger
came to him, saying there was a young
man in irons on a ship at the dock-a
young man condemned to death-who
wished to see this clergyman. Mr.. Grit
fin went down to the dock and went on
shipboard. The young man said to him,
"You don't know me, do your" "No,"
he said, 81 don't know you" "Why,
don't you remember that young man you
tried to persuade to go home and he
wonldn't CO.,, n0h. yes said Mr..
DR.. PIERCE'Sl
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