The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-04-10

the sea, returned to his fathers house,
and his mother tried to persuade him
not to 60 away again. She said: "Now,
you had better stay at home. Don't &C
away. We don't want you to CO. You
will have it great deal better here. -
But it made him angry. The night be-
lore 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 storm
came up, and he was ordered TO very
perllous 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
OFT, he tried to rally his courage, but he
could not silence the voice he had heard
III the next room, and there in the storm
and darkness he said: 80 Lord, what a
wretch | have been What wretch I
am Help me just now, Lord God. :"
And 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, Il will arise and go to my
father. "
A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe J;
went out into the sea, went out too far.
got beyond his depth and he foated 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 OH
the beach at Liverpool found the lads
clothes and took them home, and the ia
Their was heartbroken, 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 overjoyed 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 sil
AA"No yOu "ouOu llolb ClC III
you come back? When you come back
will you come in the rags of your sin,
or will you come robed in the Saviour's
believe the latter Go
home to your God today. He is waiting
for you. Go home
The Turning Point
But remark the characteristic of tn :
resolution was, it was Immediately put
into execution. The context says, He
arose and came TO his father. - The |
trouble in nine hundred and ninety mine
times out of Thousand is that our re
lutions amount to nothing because we
make them for some distant time If | |
resolve to become Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing at all If / re-
solve to become a Christian tomorrow, |
that amounts to nothing at all If / re-
solve at the service this day to become
Christian, that amounts to nothing at
all If l resolve after | 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 put into
There is a man who had the Typhoid
ever. He said: "Oh, if 1 could get over
his terrible distress, if this fever should
lepart, if | could be restored to health,
would all the rest of my life serve
God - The fever departed. He got we'll
enough to walk around the block. He
got we'll enough to go over to business.
lie is we'll today-as we'll as he ever
vas. Where is the broken vow? There is
! man who said long ago, If could
i've to the year 1896, by that time l
will have my business matters all ar
anged and | will have time to attend
o religion, and l will be good, thor
ugh, consecrated Christian. The year
800 has come. January, February,
larch, April-a third of the year gone.
Where is your broken vow? "Oh, " says
ONE man. "I'll attend to that when
ct my character fixed up, when can
ct over my evil habits. am now Civ
Il to strong drink. Or, says the man,
| am given to uncleanness. Or, says
he man, Il am given to dishonesty.
When get over my present habits, then
III be thorough Christian. " Ny broth
r, you will get worse and worse until
hrist takes you in hand. mot the
ghteous, sinners Jesus came to call. "
III, but you say, Il agree with you in
II that, but | must put it off a little
niger. Do you know there were many
Tho came just as near as you are to the
ingdom of God and never entered it? !
las at Easthampton, and / went into
he cemetery to look around, and in that
,metery there are IL graves side by side
the graves of sailors. This crew, some
ears ago, in ship went into the break
IS at Amagansett, about three miles
way. My brother, then preaching at
had been at the burial ,
hese men of the crew came very near
ling saved. The people from Amagan-
1T saw the vessel, and they shot rock
S, and they sent ropes from the shore,
I'd these poor fellows got into the boat, {
I'd they pulled nightly for the shore, &
1T just before they got to the shore tho !
pc snapped and the boat capsized. and
ey were lost, their bodies afterward c
ashed upon the beach, Oh, what a 1
lemn day it was-I have been told of |
by my brother-when these l2 men c
V at the foot uf the nm Init and he read | ,