Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
EASTER SERMON.
{ss. Or. Talmage Recounts the Stor,
Of the Prodigal Son.
ne r.onged for the Dear Old Faces at HON,
--Thsn Rose Up and Went to His
Father, Who Warmly We'll
coined His Boy.

Dr. Talmages text Easter Sunday
WINS Luke XIV, IS: II will arise and go
20 my father"
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out of man. hungry
man can toll neither with pen nor hand
nor foot. There has been many an
army defeated, not so much for lack of
ammunitian as for lack of bread. 1t
yyas that fact that took the fire out of
This Young man of the text. Storm and
expo>nre will wear out any mans life
in titAa, but hunger makes quick work.
The lacat awful cry ever heard on earth
i* IL. cry for bread. A traveller tells
fns that in Asia Minor there are trees
wiiich bear fruit looking very much
live the long bean of our time. IT
n called the carob. Once in a
while the people, reduced to desti-
Mutton, would cat these carobs,
Nbut generally the CAROLS, the beans
Bspolscn of here in the text. were
Thrown only to the swine, and they
crunched them with great avidity. But
this young man of my text could not
even get them without stealing them.
so one day, amid the swine troughs, he
begins to soliloquize. lie says: These
are no clothes for rich mans son to
wear; this is no kind of business for a
jew 10 be engaged in, feeding swine:
I'll go home; I'll go home; l will arise
and 20 to my father 1 know there
are a treat many people who try to
throw fascination, romance, n halo
abou. sin; but Notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have
said in regard to it, it is a
mean, low, contemplate business,
and putting food and fodder into the
troughs of herd of iniquities 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 it was
very wise thing for him to do. and
the only question is whether we will
follow him. Satan promises large
wages if we will serve him, but he
clothes his victims with rags, and he
pinchcs them with hunger and when
they start out to do better he sets after
them all the blood hounds of hell Sa-
tan comes to us to-day and
he promises all luXuries and emolu-
ments II 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 ut
tered the resolution Il will arise and
go to my father" In the time of Mary,
the prosecutor, prosecutor came to
Christian woman who had hidden III
her house for the 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 hereto"
The prosecutor opened the trunk. and
ON top Of the linen of the trunk he saw
glass. lie said: There is no hereto
here "Ah!' she said, you look in
the glass and you will see the hereto"
AS | take up the mirror of Gods
word to-day | would that, instead of
seeing the prodigal OF the text. we
might see ourselves-our want, our
wandering, our sin, our lost condition,
SO that we might be as wise as this
young man and say, Il will arise and
go to my father" The resolution of
this text was formed in a disgust at
his present circumstances. If this
young man had been by his employer
set to culturing flowers, or training
vines over On arbor, or keeping an ac-
count 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. II he had been
able to say: Il have thousand dollars
now of my own; what's the use of my
going back to my fathers house? Doyou
think I'm going back to apologize TO
the old man? Why, he would put me
on the limits He would not have GO
ing on around the old place such con-
duct as | have been engaged in.
won't go home. have plenty of mon
cy-plenty of pleasant surroundings.
Why should go home?" All! it was
his pauperism, it was his beggary.
He had 10 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 something more
exhileratir- - 1t is for this reason: A
man never wants the gospel until he
realizes he is in a famine struck state.
suppose should come To you in your
home, and you are in good, sound. ro-
bust health. and should begin TO talk
about medicine 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 physician. 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? never
have doctor" But suppose | come
into Your house and find You severe
~ sick, and know the medicines that
will cure you. and | know the physi-
clan who is skillful enough to meet your
case. You say: Bring on all that
medicine; bring on that physician. I
am terribly sick and want help" II
come TO you, and you feel all right in
body, and all right in mind and all
right in soul, you haze need of nothing;
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