Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-03-02

town, opening the best bottles Of wine,
driving the fastest horses, and living
with evil companions whom he dare
not introduce to his sisters He does
not describe him IN some lewd dance
hall. intoxicated with fiattery as much
as with wine. He does not have a
palace of Gree filled with princes and
princesses. the walls pictured. the
floors OF mosaic. the banquet table
grooming under the weight of gold and
silver as we'll as fruits and viands.
Parable Omits Details
"He does not trace him on and on,
running into debt. having his friends
leaving him one by one, as humming
birds with their pretty wings will hut-
ter away from flower as soon as the
honey Is gone. He does not describe
him at last so poor that he is begging
alongside OF the begsars whom he once
| cursed in the street. No. Jesus covers
up the months OF wassail. libertinism.
and conviviality with the simple SEN
tence of my text The younger son
gathered all together and took his
| journey into far country In
Christ's parable 1t Is only one step
| from the fathers house to swine 9
trough.
The trouble with many so-calle d
| Christian teachers Is that We put q
| halo over sin and talk too much about
water nymphs. fairies. seamaids. deni-
| zens Of the ai-, syiphs, spirits and
| faxen-haired goddesses. We picture
| nptation as a dream of beauty seat
| ed upon the rim OF cloud. She holds
| in one hand a pack Of cards and In the
| other a chalice Of wine. The colors OF
her cheek. the flowers caught In the
folds OF the garment clinging about her
| 1.-THE form make her look so innocent
one can't help loving her. even though
| she may be bad.
The great criticism against John
Milton is that he introduces his Satan
man. Supposing tonight ! should at
| tack a certain infldel book or a vile
| French novel and mention the book By
name and the author. and tell you I'M
der no condition to read 1t; that IL you
| did you would blast your soul for time
| and eternity. What would be the re-
| suit? Tomorrow morning fifty or one
| hundred of the young people sitting be-
| fore me would arise early and take the
| first car down town and hurry to the
| publishers and buy that very book
merely because the preacher told you
not to read il. That is human nature.
What Is the greatest damage a
| newspa per can do 4 man? Attack
| him? No, That always does an in
nocent public man good. The harder
| the newspaper dcnounces. the more
prominent the man becomes. The
worst insult the newspapers can give
is 10 simply ignore man. Never men
ton his name. Treat him as IL he was
not worth noticing. The most awful
contempt you can hurl at an enemy is
silence, complete silence. never-endins
silence.
Not Satan's Bulletin Board.
"Refuse TO allow your back TO be
Satan's bulletin board. Pose not be-
fore a community as reformed drunk
ard, or an evangelical thief. II you
once had a diseased tongue. please DO
not tell it. II you were once bedaubed
with social filth. we do not want 70
know it, Talk not about the gilded
saloon and bacchanalian feasts and the
good times you used 10 have before you
Joined the church and married and
gave up all fun. Throw not the coat OF
many colors over RIGHTEOUSNESS and
somber black over virtue. Leave evil
advertisements alone. With one
plunge jump from the highest noun
| tain OF inspiration into the lowest
depths of despair with the simple SEN
| tence, And he went into a far coun-
try
I'm the next place. learn that the
prodigal of my text went into the far
country because the father was too
| lenient, and divided unto him his liv-
| ing OF course, We all know the great
| teaching Of this parable was to show
| Gods mercy; how, as a broken hearted
parent he Is longing for the wayward
| child to come home. But there are
| many minor truths as well as the
| major one. All the gold taken from
| the mines is not poured into the same
mold. The chisel of Michael Angelo
| can cut curly-headed shepherd boy as
well as the long, flowing beard and
swarthy muscles of the Jewish law
| giver. The wheels in a factory should
not be despised because they do not re-
volve the one way.
Mr.. Moody said: This father ough;
| to be censured. He could not have
| done greater unkindness to the boy
than to give the younger son his goods
and money and let him go. A true
| father would have said to such a con-
temptible filial spirit. Go and earn
| your own portion by the sweat Of your
| brow" Yet hundreds of parents are
| making the same mistake every day.
| Try as hard as the loving heart may
We are very apt to be partial to the
| babies. When the young couple stand
at the marriage altar, hope and poverty
generally clasp hands. The first chill
dren who sleep in the cradel have to
take their share of struggle for daily
bread. But when the youngest babies
are born the parents often have foot
| hold. Servants now clean the house
and run the errands and care for the
| shoes. To use a WORKOUT figure. the
younger son lies on bed of roses.