Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-09

gospel sermon is the one Of today by DIR.
Talmage. 1t runs up and down the whole
gamut Of glorious invitation. His text
was Luke XIV, IS, "I 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-
ieated 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 tho text. Storm and exposure will wear
out any mans life in time, but hunger
makes quick work. The most awful cry
ever heard Oh earth Is the cry for bread. A
Traveller tells us that in Asia Minor there
arc trees which bear fruit looking very
much like the long bean Of our time. 1t
is called tho carob. Once in awhile the
people, reduced to destitution, would eat
these carobs, but generally the carobs, tho
beans spoken of here in the text, were
thrown only to the swine, and they crunch
cd them with great avidity. But this
young n6n Of my text could not even get
them without stealing them. So one day,
amid the swine troughs, he begins to So
lilOquize. He says: "These are no clothes
for rich mans son to wear; this is no
kind CT business for q Jew to be engaged
IL, feeding swine. I'll go home; I'll go
home. 1 will arise and go to my father. I"
know there are great many people
whJ try to throw fascination, a romance,
halo, about sin, but Notwithstanding all
-has Lord Byron and George Sand have
slit in regard to it, 1t is mean, low, con-
tomptlble business, and putting food and
fodder into the troughs of herd of iniqui-
ties that root and wallow in the soul of
man is very poor business for men and
women intended to be sons and daughters
Of the Lord Almighty, and when this
young man resolved to go home 1t was a
worry wise thing for him to do and the on
ly question Is whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large wages If we will
servo him, but ho 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 bloodhounds of
hell. Satan comes to us today, and he prom
ises all luxuries and emoluments if we
will only serve him. Liar, down with thee
to the pit! "The wages of sin is death. )"
Oh, the young man Of the text was wise
when he uttered the resolution, ~ will
arise and go to my father" In the time of
Mary, the prosecutor, prosecutor came to
Christian woman who had hidden in
her house for tho 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 heretic." 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" "Ahr' she
said, "you look in the glass and you will
see the heretic"
Seeing Ourselves.
AS tako up tho mirror of Gods word
today, would that, instead of seeing the
prodigal of the text, wo might see our
selves-our want, our wandering, our sin,
our lost condition-so that we might be as
wise as this young man was and say, II
will arise and go to my father" The reso-
luton of this text was formed in dis.
gust at his present circumstances. If this
young man had been by his employer set
to culturing flowers, 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 full of money,
If he had been ablo to say: 81 have 81, 900
now of my own. What's tho use of my 60
ing 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 would not have going on
around the old place such conduct as 1
have been engaged in. won't go home.
There is no reason why should go home.
l have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant
surroundings. Why should l go home?'
All, it was his pauperism it was his beg
gary. 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 nineteenth century and talk of some
thing moro eexhilarating" 1t for this rea-
son: A man never wants the gospel until
he realizes ho is in q famine struck state.
Suppose l should come to you in your
home, and you are in good sound, robust
health, and l should begin to talk about
medicines, and about how much better
this medicine is than that, and some other
medicine than some other medicine, and
talk about this physician and that ply
sician. After awhile you would get tired,
and you would say: II don't want to hear
about medicines. Why do you talk to me
of physicians? 1 never have doctor" "
But suppose come into your house and l
find you severely sick, and l know the
medicines that will cure you, and know
the physician who is skillful enough to
meet your case You say: "Bring Oh all
that medicine, bring ON that physician. I
am terribly sick, and want help"
Ruined by Sin.
If come to you, and you feel you arc
all right in body, and all right in mind,
and all right in soul, you have need of
nothing, but suppose have persuaded you
that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the
worst of all sickness. Oh then you say,
Bring me that balm of the gospel, bring
me that divine medioament, bring me Je-
sus Christ" "But," says some one in the
audience, chow do you know that we are
in ruined condition by sin?" Well, can
prove it in two ways and you may have
your choice. 1 can prove it either by the
statements of men or by the statement of
God. Which shall it be? You say, "Let us
have the statement of God" Well, he says
in one place, "The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked" He
says in another place, "What is man that
he should be clean and he which is born
of woman that he should be righteous?"
He says in another place, ''There is none
that doeth good--no, not one." He says in
another place, "As by one man sin enter
cd into the world, and death by sin, and so
death passed upon all men, for that all
had sinned." "Well," you say, 81 am
willing to acknowledge that, but why
should I take the particular rescue that
you propose" This is the reason; (" Except
man be born again he cannot see the
kingdom Of God" This is the reason:
"There is one name given under heaven
among men whereby they may be saved"
Then there are thousand voices here ready
to say: "Well, 1 am ready to accept this help
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