Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-06

nit see tine kingdom Of Cod. This is
the reason: There is one name given
under heaven among men whereby they
may be saved" Then there are thou
sand voices mere ready to say: well, l
am ready TO accept this help of the Cos
pei: I would like to have this divine
cure: how shall go to wOrk?' Let me
saw that q mere Whim, an underlined
longing amounts TO nothing. You
must have e stout. a tremendous resO-
luton like this young man of the text
when he said. Il will arise and 90 TO
nv father oh says some man,
chow do I know my father wants me?
how do I know. If l go back, l would be
received2' oh. says some man, you
don't know where [ have been; you
don't know how far I have wandered;
YOU wouldn't talk that way to me if you
knew an the iniuuities I have commit
ted What is that tlUtter among the
angels of God? What is that horse,
man running with quick dispatch? 1t
is news, it is news, Christ has tOuno
The lost.
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindle with new fire.
The sinners lost is found they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
Again: I notice that this resolution
Of the young man OF my text was
FOUNDED IN SORROW
at his misbehavior. 1t was not mere
physical plight 1t was grief that he
had so maireated his father 1t is a
sad thing after q father has done every
thing for a child TO have that child un-
grateful
How sharper than serpent's tooth Ii Is,
To have thanhess child.
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
is the helyiness of his mother. ~ That
is the Bible. Well. my friends, have
not some of us been cruel prodigals?
Have we not malUeated our Father?
And such q Father, Three times a day
he has fed thee He has poured sun
light into thy day and at night kindied
up am the street lamps of heaven. With
what varieties OF apparel me hath cloth
cd thee fer the seasons. Whose eye
watches thee? Whose hand defend
thee? Whose heart sympaJhiZes with
thee? Who gave YOU your children?
Who is guarding your loved one de-
parted Such q Father, So loving, so
kind If he had been q stranger; if he
had forsaken us: if he had Negotiated
us. if he had pounded us and turned us
out of doors ON the commons. it would
not have been so wOnderful-Our treat
ment Of him; but he is a Father, so low
ing. so kind and yet how many of Us
for our Wanderings
Rave NEVER APOLOGIZED!
II we say anything that hurts our
friends feelings If we do anything that
hurts the feelings Of those i'm whom we
are interested. how quickly we apollo
gize. We can scarcely wait until we
get pen and paper TO write a letter Of
apology. How easy it is for any one
who is intelligent right-hearted, to
write an apology, We apologize for
wrongs done to cur fellows. but some Of
us have perhaps committed ten thous-
and times ten thousand wrongs against
God and never apOlOgized.
Iremark still further that this resoiu-
tiOn of the text was founded i'm feeling
OF inconsistencies. ] do not know how
long this young man. how many
months. how many years he had been
away from his fathers house, but there
is something about the reading Of my
toNt that makes me think ne was home
sick. Some of YOU know what tnat
feeling is. Far away from home some
times. surrounded by everything bright
and pl5asan--plenty of friends-you
have said. 81 would give the world TO
be home tonight" Well, this young
man was home-sick for his fathers
house. I have no doubt when he
thought of his fathers house he said:
"Now. perhaps father may not be lir-
ing" We read nothing in this story
this parable-fOunded