Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-04-06

hot 10 90 away again. She said: "Now,
Won had better stay at home. Don't go
away. We don't want you to go. You
will have it great deal better here :"
But it made him angry. The night be-
fore he went away again to sea he heard
his mother praying i'll the next room,
and that made him more angry. He
went far out on the sea, and a storm
came up, and he was ordered TO very
perilous duty, and he ran up the rat
lines. and amid the shrouds of the ship
he heard the voice that he had heard in
the next room. He tried to whistle it
off, he tried to rally his courage, but 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 I have been! What wretch I
ami Help me just now, Lord God. ="
And I thought in this assemblage today
there may be some who may have the
memory of fathers petition or a
mothers prayer pressing nightly upon
the soul, and that this hour they may
make the same resolution I find in my
text, saying, 81 will arise and go to my
father. !"
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle
went out into the sea, went out too far.
got beyond his depth, and he f1oated far
away. A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him on board. Sailors
are generally very generous fellows, and
one gave him cap, and another gave
him jacket, and another gave him
shoes. A gentleman passing along on
the beach at Liverpool found the lad 5
clothes and took them home, and the fl
Their was heartbr0ken, the mother was
heartbroken, at the loss Of their child.
They had heard nothing from him day
after day, and they ordered the usual
mourning for the sad event But the lad
took ship from Dublin and arrived in
Liverpool the very day the mourning
arrived. He knocked at the door. The ia
Their was oyerjoyed and the mother was
overjoyed at the return Of their lost son.
Oh, my friends, have you waded out too
deep? Have you waded down into sin?
Have you waded from the shore? VIII
you come back? When you come back,
will you come in the rags Of your sin,
or will you come robed III the Saviour s
righteousness believe the latter Go
home to your God today. He is waiting
for you. Go home!
The Turning Point.
But Iremark the characteristic of this
resolution was, it was Immediately put
into execution. The context says, ''He
arose and came 70 his father" The
trouble in nine hundred and ninety mine
times out of a thousand is that our resO-
buttons amount to nothing because we
make them for some distant time. II
resolve to become a Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing at all. If [ re-
solve to become q Christian tomorrow,
that amounts to nothing at all. If | re-
solve at the service this day to become q
Christian, that amounts to nothing at
all Ii | resolve after I go home today
to yield my heart to God, that amounts
to nothing at ALL The only kind of reso-
luton that amounts to anything is the
resolution that is Immediately pct into
execution.
There is a man who had the typhoid
fever. He said "Oh, if [ could get over
this terrible distress, if this fever should
depart, if / could be restored to health,
would all the rest of my life serve
God. j" The fever departed. He got we'll
enough to walk around the block. He
got we'll enough to go over to business.
He is we'll today-as we'll as he ever
was. Where is the broken vow? There is
a man who said long ago, IF could
live to the year 1896, by that time l
will have my business matters all ar
ranged, and I will have time to attend
to religion, and I Will be good, thor
ough, consecrated Christian. )" The year
1896 has come. January, February,
March, April--a third of the year gone.
Where is your broken VOW? "Oh, - says
some man, ''I'1l attend to that when
get my character fixed up, when I can
get over my evil habits. ] am now Civ
en- to strong drink Or, says the man,
81 am given to uncleanness. Or, says
the man, q am given to dishonesty.
When get over my present habits, then
I'll be a thorough Christian. My broth
er, you will get worse and worse until
Christ takes you in hand. ''Not the
sinners Jesus came to call.
Oh, but you say, Il agree with you in
all that, but must put it off little
longer Do you know there were many
who came just as near as you are to the
kingdom Of God and never entered it? |
was at Easthampton, and I went into
the cemetery to look around, and in that
cemetery there are u graves side by side
the graves of sailors. This crew, some
years ago, in ship went into the break
ers at Amagansett, about three miles
away. My brother, then preaching at
Easthampton, had been at the burial.
These men of the crew came very near
being saved. The people from Amagan-
sett saw the vessel, and they shot rock
cts, and they sent ropes from the shore,
and these poor fellows got into the boat,
and they pulled nightly for the shore,
but just before they got to the shore the