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and presses TO his parched lip, and his .
cracked tongue and his shrieking yet inn .
mortal spirit-no room
Oh, il this younger son of the parable
had not gone SO far off, il he had not
dropped 50 low in wassail, the protest
would not have been so severe! But, go-
ing clear over the precipicc ms the youn-
ger son did the elder son is angry and
will not 20 in.
sympathy For the Fallen.
Re not so hard in your criticism of the
fallen lest thou thysclf also be tempted.
DO you know who that man was who
Sabbath before last staggered up and
down the aisle In church. disturbing
the service until the service had TO stop
until he was taken from the room! lie
was n minister OF the gospel Of Jesus
Christ in Il sister denomination, That
man had preached tho gospel. that man
had broken tho bread of the holy com
munion FOR tho people. From what
height to what Il depth, oh, ] was glad
there was no smiling in the room when
that man was taken out, lis poor wife
following him. with his hat in her hand
and his coat ON her arm, 1t was as sol
cmn to mo as two funcrals-thc funeral
of the body and the funeral of the soul.
beware, lest thou also be tempted!
An invalid wcut to South America for
his hcalth and one day sat summing him
sclf on the beach when he saw something
crawling up the beach, wriggling toward
him, and he was affrghtcd. He thought
il was n wild beast or a reptile, aud he
took his pistol from his pocket. Then he
saw it Was not wild benst. 1t was
man. an immortal man, a man made in
H..
crawlcd UP 50 the feet of the invalid and
asked for strong drink, and the invalid
took his wine flask from his pocket and
gave the poor wretch something to drink,
and then under the stimulus he rose up
and gave his history. lie had been
merchant in Glasgow, Scotland. lie had
gone down under the power of strong
drink until he was so reduced in poverty
that he was living in n boat just off the
beach. "Why,' said the invalid, Il knew
" merchant i'll Glasgow once. merchant
of such and such n name" And the
poor wretch Strengthened himself and
said, II am that man" Let him that
thinketh he standcth take heed lest he
fall"
Again, l remark that the senior broth
cr of my text stands for the spirit of
envy and jealousy. The senior brother
thought that all the honor they did to the
returned brother was a wrong to HIN.
He said, 81 have staid at home, and
ought to have had the ring, and | ought
10 have had the banquet, and l ought to
nave had the garlNhuS' Aus loi ms
spirit OF envy ana jealousy Com.ns IoMn
through the ages CGlh anu LApei Hsnu
ana JACOB saul ana DaN ~ ii"'iI"n d,u
Mordeca'' othelIo ana iaso, O r'"nuo
ana Ahschca' oalsula anu Aoiq.".u''
"S"r anu oinp'S' o'ullOu' IN .I,a
, '',i' aii,,, l1',o,,.,, La ,.os n he+ter
no,k.mnn Dionvsius and Philoxenius,
,chom me Slew because he was q better
,ir,,ar Jeolousy among painters. Clos
tornnn and Geoffrey Kncller Hudson
and RevnolJs Frapcia. anxious to see u
nicture OF EHphael Raphael sends him a
i,icturo Francin. seeing il. falls in q fit
Of ioolousv. from which he dies. Jcal-
ousv among authors. How seldom con-
tcmnoraries sneak of each other, Memo
nbon and Plato living mt the same time
hut from, their writings YOU never would
sunnoso they heard Of each other. Re-
igious icalousics. The Mohammedans
nravinc for rain during n drought; no
rain conirg. Then the Christians begin
10 pray for rain. and the rain comes.
Tben tbe Nohammedans met together to
account for this, and they resolved that
Cod was SO well pleased with their pray
ers ne kent the drought on so as to keep
them Drawing but that the Christians
began to pray, and the Lord was SO
Disguised with their prayers that he
sent rain right away so he would not
hear any more of their supplcations
oh. this accursed spirit Of envy and
jealousy, Let us stamp it out from all
our hearts.
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