The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-15
STARTING FOR HOME.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE PREAcHES a RAD
lcAL SERMON.

lcAL SERMON.
Tho Prodisal's Return Furnishes the
rhame q For Powerful Discourse--A Di-
vine Cure For the Ills OF the World---t
Glorious Invitation.
WASHINGTON, April "a most rad
ical gospel sermon is the one of today by
DR.. Talmage. Itruns up and down the
whole gamut Of glorious invitation.
His text was Luke xv. Is, Il Will arise
and 60 to my father"
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy out of a man. A hungry
man can toll neither with pen nor
hand nor foot. There has been many
an army defeated not so much for lack
of ammunition as for lack of bread
It was that fact that took the fire out
of the young man of the text. Storm
and exposure will wear out any mans
life in time, but hunger makes quick
work. The most awful cry ever heard
on earth is the CRY for bread. a trav-
eler tells us that in Asia Minor there
are trees which bear fruit looking very
much like the long bean 81 ;e.ss-sir11e 5ass tue.
It is cane& Sns eesTo6. Once in awhile
the people, reduced to destltutlon'
would eat these carobs, but generally
the carobs. the beans spoken Of here
in the text, were thrown only to the
swine and they crunched them with
GREAT avidity. But this young man OF
nv text could not even get them with
out stealing them. So one day, amid
the swine troughs, he begins to solllo-
ouize. He says: These are no clothes
for rich mans son to wear; thisls no
kind of business for Jew to be en-
gagged in, feeding swine. I'll go home;
III 20 home. / will arise ami go to
my father"
know there are great many peo-
pie who try to throw fascination, a
romance. a halo, about sin. but not
withstanding all that Lord Byron and
George Sand have said in regard to It,
it is a mean, low, contemplate busl-
ness. and putting food and fodder into
the troughs of herd of iniquities that
root and wallow in the soul OF man IS
8 yery poor business for men and wo-
men Intended to be sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty, and when this
young man decided to 60 home 1t was
a 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
pinches them with hunger, and when
thev start out to do better he sets after
them all the bloodhounds Of hell. Sa-
tan comes to us today, and he promises
all luxuries and emoluments if we will
only serve him. Lar, down with thee
to the pit. 1.-The wages OF sin IS
death" Oh, the young man OF the text
was wise when he uttered the resolu'
ton, ''I will arise and go to my faith
err In the time of Mary, the perse
cutor, a prosecutor came to Christian
woman who had hidden in her house
for the Lords sake one OF Christ's ser
wants, and the perSecutor sald,
ssWhere is that heretic?" The Chris,
tan woman said, ''You open that
trunk and you will see the hereto. .
The persecutor opened the trunk and
on the top of the linen of the trunk he
saw glass. He said, There is no
hereto here" ''Ah!' she said, ''you
look in the glass and you will see the
hereto" ;,
As I take up the mirror of Gods
word today, I would that, instead OF
seeing the prod;gal 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 was and say, II will arise
and 60 to my father" The resolution
of this text was formed in disgust al
his present circumstances. If this
young man had been by his employe,
set to culturing flowers, or training
vines over an arbor, or keeping an &C,
count of the port market, or oversee
ING other laborers, he would not nave
thoughtof going home-if he had had
his pockets full of money, if he had
been able to say: ''I have 81, 900 now
of my own. What's the use OF my
going back to my fathers house? Dc
you think / am going back to aposo
gize to the old man2 Why, he would
put me on the limits. He would moi
have going on around the old place
such conduct as I have been engaged
in. I won't 60 home. There is nc
reason why I should go home. | have
plenty Of money. plenty. OF pleasant
surroundings. Why should l &C
homes" All, it was his pauperism, II
was his beggary. He had to go home.
Some man comes and says to me:
''Why do you talk about the ruined
state Of the human soul2 Why don't
YOU speak about the progress OF the
nineteenth century and talk Of some
thing more exhilaratinga" 1t IS fol
this reason: a man never wants the
gospel until he realizes he is in a fam:
Inc struck state. Suppose should
come to you in your home, and you
are in good, sound, robust health, and
IshouId begin to talk about medicines
and about how much better this medi'
cine is than that, and some other med,
icine than some other medicine, and
talk about this physician and that ply,
sician. After awhile you would get
tired, and you would say: II dom!
: want to hear about medicines. Why
do you talk to me of physicians. 1nev.
er havea doctor" But suppose come
into your house and I 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:
am terribly sick, and want help.
III come to you, and you feel you
are all right in body, and all right in
mind, and all right in soul, you have
need of nothing, but suppose [ have
persuaded you that the leprosy of sin
is upon you, the worst of all sickness.
Oh, then you say, Bring me that balm
of the gospel, bring me that divine
medicament, bring me Jesus Christ. -