The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-29
THE TROPICAL SON
THIS WAS sUBJECT OF EVANGELIST
 WHARTON.
Many Persons Manifested Their Inter- est fin Great Revival at Audito- rfusn--Meeting to Close Next
 Sunday Night.

Probably one thousand people were at the city Auditorium Monday evening to hear pr. H. M. wharton begin the l last week of his evangelical work In Montgomery.
 Not only was there a large number at the meeting, but large percentage of those present manifested their in- terest in the meeting by either ac- knowledging their yielding to their bet ter impulses or by personal work with those without the fold.
 Before the sermon several notes were read requesting the prayers of Chris tian for individuals and following these requests q large number of those in the audience made the same request l for friends and relatives and for them selves.
 Dr. Wharton announced that the meetings will come to an end at the evening service next Sunday.
 The subject for Monday evening was From a Hog-Pen to Heaven" and was based on the following text from the story of the Prodigal Son: When he came to himself he said, T will arise and go to my father;' and he arose and came to his father"
 Tn reading the story on which the sermon was based. pr. wharton made interesting remarks on the different passages giving the story a new mean ing to many of his hearers. He said that the father was "a fool Co divide up his property in the first place." You let a father distribute his property to his heirs before he dies." said the evangelist, "and he is very liable to so to the poorhouse."
 Tn speaking of the young mans woes when he had spent all of his money in riotous living" the preacher said: You get out of money and see what a famine there appears to be even In the most prosperous times. From your standpoint, a big famine will have arisen in Montgomery and everybody you ask for aid will have gone broke just like you have"
 Its much easier to say to yourself that you are a lot better than many people than 1t Is to turn from the path you are pursuing" said he, in passing, when he read that the young man de- termined 'to go to his father" When he read that "his father saw him afar off" and ran to meet him. Dr. Wharton said: T reckon his mother was dead or she would have been there first"
 when he took up his text. he said in part: ... are on canvas, in the newspapers or in stories Christ was the greatest Of story y-tellers and his stories have sig nificance which Is vital to all The etory of the prodlga1 son means every ane of us who has gotten away from cod by whatever paths we have stray ed. GA [,
 "sinners have turned from God in many different directions. A man wac cares not for drink. deserves no creole for not being drunkard and may tnrn from God in the very act or prld- ing himself on his abstaining rom at. cohol. The story of the prodigai son ID a mirror held up to naturA .,.
 HPeople who have not gwen tAe .. salves to Christ are in a measure crazy. nh how, much it takes to make peopi,s, think Many of you here tonlgnt VIII lia not come to yourselves untll you u~t .e iost vouT jobs and have not a cent 10 ,sn,,r nan,es Some of you Will torce sod & to break your hearts before you turn from your ways ... A.,..,
 'we are too prone to leaVe s. tne AZ. o,,t of our calculations ana torses me, N,, o'n have this deadly enemy to flgnt al ". ,',sv through life. Just you make . Iho so,NIoo to turn around and go the tSnr oeci,.o S,av-to be eonverted---and see Snn, thev will beset you with kou arg not sood enough yet'--'Yonre eowaro no' ,,,DO haok'-Td rather be called .o,,,srS .o trying to live as should. Then tSsv win tell you that your tathsr