Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-15

low quickly We 0DOlOX160I We can Sc0tC0iy
vait until we get pen and paper to write /:
gho Is Intelligent, righ: hearted, to write an
Ipoio9y or make an apology! We apologize
Or wrongs done to our fellows, but some OF
% perhaps have committed ten thousand
lines ten thousand wrongs against God and
ever apolo9ised.
u the text was founded In . feeling of home
dckness. do not know how long this
roung man, how many months, how many
rears, he hal been away from his fathers
house, but there is something about the
eading of my text that makes me think he
vas homesick. Some of you know what
hat feeling Ia. Far away from homo some.
Of friends-you have said,
Il would give the world to be home to-
i!ght." Well. this young man was home
hck for his fathers house. have no doubt
when he thought of hts fathers house he
aid, SNOW perhaps father may not Be
living" We read nothing In this story
his parnble-founded on everyday life; We
read nothing about the mother. It says
aothing about going home to her. I think
The was dead. I think she had died Of
broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps
10 had gone into dissipation from the fact
hat he could not remember . loving and
Ympathetic mother. A man nevsr gets ovei
having lost his mother. Nothing said about
aer. but he u homesick for his fatheri
house. He thought he would just like to &C
aud walk around the old place. He thought
ae would just like to go and SEQ II thingf
we're as they used to be. Many Q man after
having been OF u long while has gone home
and knocked at the door, and q stranger has
some. It Il the old homestead, but q stranger
comes to the door. He finds out father IL
gone. and mother Is gone, and brothers and
list ers are all gone. think this young man
,f the text said to himself. "Perhaps father
nay be dead" Still, he starts to find out
ae is homesick. Are there any here to-day
lomesick for God. homesick for heaven7
A sailor. after having been long on tn
yea, returned to h fathers house, and hii
lgain. She said. "Now, you had bt ttet
tay at home. Don't go away, We den1
want you to go. You will have II eteN
ieal better here" But it made him angry
rhe night before he went away again to se<
he heard his mother praying In the nen
loom. and that made him more angry. HI
vent far out on the sea, and a storm camt
lp, and he was ordered to very periious duty.
and he ran up the rat-lines, and amid the
,hrouds of the ship he heard the voice that
1s had heard in the next room. He tried tC
whistle it Off, he tried to rally his courage
put he could not silence the voice he had
heard in the next room, and there in the
storm and darkness he said: 40 Lord, what
/ wretch have been! What a wretch l am
Help me Just now. Lord God" And
thought in this assemblage to-day there
nay be some who may have the memory of q
.ather = petition or q mothers prayer press
nS nightly upon the soul, and that this
hour they may make the same resolution
md in my text, saying, 81 will arise and &c
% my father"
A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; wen
ut tuio the sea, went out too far, got be
yond his depth, and he foated far away.
hip bound Tor Dublin came along and tool
lin en- board. Sailors are generally yer,
Generous fellows. and one gave him q cap
ind another gave him jacket, and another
,avs him shoes. A gentleman passing along
N the beach at Liverpool found the lad'a
ilethes and took them home. and the fatheI
vas heartbroken, the mother was heart.
Token, at the loss Of their child. They had
leard nothing from him day after day, and
hey ordered the usual mourning for the sad
,vent. But the lad took ship from Dublin
md arrived fu Liverpool the very day the
mourning arrived. He knocked at the door.
The father was overjoyed and the mother
was overjoyed at the return Of their lost son.
Oh. my friends. have you waded out too
ieep. Have you waded down into sin2 Have
Tou waded from the shore? Will you
:ome back? When you come back, will you
come in the rags Of your sin, or will you
:oms robeJ in the Saviour's righteousness2
believe the latter. Go home to your God
o-day. He is waiting for you. Go homel
But remark the characteristic Of this res
'lution WAS, it was Immediately put into ex.
.cution. The context says. ''He arose and
came to his father" The trouble in nine
aundred and ninety-nine times out Of a thou
band is that our resolutions amount to moth
hg because We make them for some distant
lime. II resolve to become Christian nexi
rear, that amounts to nothing at all. Ii l re-
tolve at the service this day to become Q
Christian, that amounts to nothing at all II
| resolve after go home to-day to yield my
heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all.
The only kind OF resolution that amounts to
anything Is the resolution that u immediate.
Nput into execution.
There Is a man who had the typhoid fever.
1e said: "Oh. IL could get over this terri
de distress, II this fever should depart, II
rest of my life serve God" The fever de-
parted. He got we'll enough to walk around
me block. He got we'll enough to go over
70 business. He Is we'll to-day-as we'll as he
fver was. Where Is the broken vow! There
3 a man who said long ago, ''If could live
o the year 1885. by that time will have my
business matters all arranged. and / will
ave time to attend to religion, and will be
good, thorough, consecrated Christian. y
The year 1896 has come. January, Febru.
try, March, April-a third OF the year gone.
Where is your broken vow2 "Oh," says
'ome man, "I'll attend to that when
get my character fixed up, when car
get over my evil habits. am now Civ.
IN to strong drink." Or, says the man, 81
nan, ~ am given to dishonesty. When
get over my present habits, then I'll be q
thorough Christian" My brother, you will
get worse and worse until Christ takes you
n hand. mot the righteous. sinners Jesus
came to call" Oh, but you say, II sgree
with You in all that, but must put 1t of q
little longer" Do you know there were
many who came just as near as you are to
the kingdom of God and never entered it2
was at EastE:np:on, and l went into the
cemetery to look arOuLd, and in that ceme-
.ery there are twelve graves side by side
he graves of sailors. This crew, some years
lyo, in n ship went into the breakers al
Amayansett, ABOUT three miles away. My
brother, then preaching at Easthampton. had
,een at the burial. These men OF the crew
.ame very near being saved. The people
rom Amagansett saw the vessel and they
not rockets and they sent ropes from the
hore. and these poor fellows got into the
Doat and they pulled nightly for the shore
,ut just before they got to thu shore the rope
snapped aud the boat caps,zed, and they
we're iost. their bodies afterward washed up.
the beach. Oh, what IA solemn day it was
l have b. en tod OF it by my brother-wheu
:heee twelve men lay at the foot OF the pni'
Dit. and he read over them the funeral ser
ice, They came very near shore-wtthif
ihoutlng distance Of the shOre-yet did no
arrive on solid land. There are some mel
Who come almost to the shore OF Gods mercy
but not quite, not quite. To be almost save|
. to be lost.
will tell you Of two prodigals.the on
hat got back and the other that did not Re
back. In Richmond there Is very prosper
pus and beautiful home In many respects. 4
roung man wandered of from that nome
be wandered very far into sin. They heart
pf him after, but he was always on IN
wrong track He would not go home. A
The door Of that beautiful home one nign
there was q great outcry. The young ma
bf the house ran down to open the door Z
bee what was the matter. 1t was midnign'
Tho rest OF the family were asleep. Ther
Were the wife and children Of this prodigs
Youns man, The fAot was he had como HON
IA 6s1vsn them out He saidk"Oue OF I'M