The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-01

doriul ran was laid out which has been tho
Wondefmont of an the years sineH-tho wou-
dUrment 0l an ouginee.a. And you teli me /
there are such mountains oi E.u betweca |
your soul and God thete ia no mercy. Then /
i see Christ waving HIs hand toward GOO /
mountains hear Him say, ~ will come /
oFerthe mountains oi tbs ain and iho bills i
OF thine lniquiiy" There shall Do no Pyre- /
neesi there shan be no Alra
Again / notice that this resolution OF Che |
young mnn OF my text was founded in aor- /
row or his misbuhavlor no was not mere |
physical plight. Il was grief that he had 40 /
malireated his father tits "a sad thing after |
O. father has done everything ior a child 20 |
have that child ungrWeful
How sharper than a Ecrpeni's tooth Il ls
To have q thankloss child.
That is Shakespeare "a foolish son is tho
| heavlness % his mother" That Is the Bible
Well, my friends, have not some Of as been
/ cruel prodleals2 Have we not maltreated our
/ Father And such Father Three times n
/ day hes Hefed thee. He has poured sunlight
/ into thy day, and at night kindled up all the
street lamps OF heaven. With what varieties
/ of apparel He hath clothed thee for the sea-
sons. Whose eye watches lhee2 Whose hand
/ defends thee2 Whose heart sympathizes with
| thee? Who gave you your children Who Is
/ guarding your loved ones doparledf such
/ Father So loving, 20 kind. II Hehad been
! n stranger Il He had forsaken us, II He had
| fagellated us, II He had pounded as and
turned as out Of doors on the commons, Il
| would not have been 80 wonderiul-our
treatment Of Him-but He Is "A Father, so
blowing, so kind, and yet how many Of us for
our wanderings have never apologlsed. II
we say anythingtha hurts our friends feel
| ings, III we do anything that hurts the feel
ing8 OF those Ia whom we are interested,
how quickly we apologizel We can scarcely
wait until we get pen and paper 70 write
| letter Of apology. How easy is Il for any one
who Is intelligent, RICH. hearted, 20 write an
| apology or make an apology We apologize
for wrongs done 10 our fellows, but some Of
us perhaps have committed ten thousand
times ten thousand wrongs against God and
never apologized.
I remark still further that this resolution
OF the text WIS ioundedin feeling Of home
sickness. / 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 tho
reading OF my text that makes mo think no
was homesick. Some OF YOU know what
! that feeling is. Far away from home some
times, surrounded by everything bright and
pleasant-plenty Of friends-you have said,
~ would give the world 10 be home to-
night" Well. this young man was home
sick for his fathers house. l have no doubt
when he thought OF his fathers house he
said, Snow perhaps father may not be
living" We read nothing In this story
this parnble-fOunded on everyday life; we
read nothing about the mother. II says
nothing about going home to her. l think
she was dead. / think she had died Of a
broken heart at his wandeungs, or perhaps
he had gone into dissipation from the fact
that he could not remember q loving and
sympathetic mother. A man never gets over
having lost his mother. Nothing said about
her, but he is homesick for his fathers
house. He thought he would Just like to 90
and walk around the old place. He thought
he would just like to 60 and see If things
were as they used TO be. Many a man after
having been of a long while has gone home
and knocked at the door, and a stranger has
come. II is the old homestead, but a stranger
comes to the door. He finds out father is
gone, and mother Is gone, and brothers and
Of the text said to himself "Perhaps father
may be dead" Still, he starts to find out
He Is homesck. Are there any here to-day
homesiek for God. homesick for heaven?
! A sailor. after having been long on the
. sea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not 10 go away
again. She said "Now, you had better
stay at home. Don't 20 away. We don't
want you to go. You will have it a great
deal better here" But it made him angry.
The night before he went away again to sea
, he heard his mother praying in the next
, room, and that made him more angry. He
, went far out on the sea, and a storm came
,, up, and he was orderedto very periious duty,
: and he ran up the rat-Hnes, and amid the
J shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that
he had heard In the next room. He tried ia
j., whistle it of, he tried to rally his courage,
nut he could not silence the voice he had
, heard in the next room, and there in the
! storm and darkness he said: 80 Lord, what
! a wretch have beenl What a wretch l am
/. Help me just now. Lord God" And
! thought in this assemblage to-day there
7 may be some who may have the memory ola
: fathers petition or a mothers prayer press
: ing nightly upon the soul, and that this
) hour they may make the same resolution
: find In my text, saying, 81 will arise and 60
: to my father"
1 A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; wen
{ out into the sea- went out too far, got be
: yond his depth, and he ioated far away. 4
ship bound for Dublin came along and tool
, him on board. Sailors are generally ver'
generous fellows. and one gave him a cap
q and another gave him a jacket, and anothe
I gave him Shoes A gentleman passing along
n on the beach at Liverpool found the lad
Il clothes and took them home, and the fathe
+ was heartbroken the mother was heart
q broken, at the loss Of their child. They hat
: heard nothing from him day after day. ant
they ordered the usual mourning for the sa,
4 event. But the lad took ship from Dublil
4 and arrived in Liverpool the very day tn
- mourning arrived. He knocked at the door
: The father was overioyed and the mothe
, was overjOyed at the return of their lost son
= Oh, my friends, have you waded out to-
!, deepf Have you waded down into sin2 Hav
- you waded from the shore? viii yol
come back2 When you come back will yol
=, come in the rags Of your sin, or will 70,
y come robed in the Saviours righteousness
= believe the latter. Go home to your Go,
:, to-day. He is waiting for you. Go home
= But remark the characteristic Of this res
=" olution was, it was Immediately put into ex
i, ecution. The context says, che arose an
y came to his father" The trouble in min
% hundred and ninety-nine times out OF a thou
- sand is that our resolutions amount to moth
"A ingbecause we make them for some distan
~ time. II / resolve to become Christian mex
% year, that amounts to nothing at all II re
II solve at the service this day to become