The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-04-18
Sermon Deals LUlth Failings to be .4Uoided

young fellow who Travelled with the
circuses every summer. He was the
individual who sat by the driver on
the band wagon when the street par
ade was going on. and called out in
loud stentorian voice: Immediately
after the parade is over grand, free
grounds. Why, when that circus
came to our town. this young fellow,
whom we all knew, was the idol the
envy of all of the small boys in the
place: he was the lion of the hour;
he outshown even the glorious cir
Gus combination itself. ! met him on
the same train, once going east from
indianapolis He was dressed up
flashily looking like Snowman and
| said: Hello. Way up in the show
business And he said: Yes. way
up in the show business. Said he
was on his way To Urbana, Ohio, TO
meet his circus. but before we got
there he told me a hard luck story
and wanted me 10 let him have a
couple of dollars. Thus do our
beautiful ideals become rudely
shattered. saw him now in diff
ferent light. and knew him as he
really was.
These clever boys reach the limit
sooner or later. The man with a
soft snap has his day. That 5 the
difficulty about soft snap. It's
too soft. II It had been a little
harder. it might have lasted longer.
And the fellows who start out in life
thinking that they are going To make
every body serve them generally
wind up by serving others instead
and doing it in very mental fashion.
That's the way il turned out with the
prodigal son. Made his own father
serve him. Made him turn over part
of the home POSSESSIONS went away
aud tried TO make everybody minister
TO his pleasure. wound up By serving
others i'm the most mental way-was
glad enough to get job feeding pigs,
feeding pigs. and he a Jew. per
son that hated pig worse than any
thing else i'm the world. The father S
table wasn't good enough for him,
now he was glad enough 10 eat TO
his fill. on the husks that they
fed 10 the swine. When | was in the
Holy Land. they showed me a tree
bearing a hat. lobe-shaped fruit. and
said il was what the prodigal son fed
upon ! tried to chew il. and II
puckered ones tongue, and left bad
taste in the mouth Truly The prodi
gal son was in hard luck when this
was all that he had 10 satisfy his
H.
he would fain have filled his belly
with the husks that the swine did
eat: and no man gave unto him.
That was tough luck. wasn't it?
Reduced tc point where he was
willing 10 eat the husks belonging TO
the swine and they wouldn't give him
any. We are told that al this juneture
he came to himself Should have
thought he would. II takes a whole
lot sometimes to make people come
10 themselves. And when he came
10 himself he said. How many hired
servants of my fathers have bread
enough and to spare. and | perish
with hunger. | will arise and 90 TO
nv father. and will say unto him,
Father, have sinned against heaven
and before thee. and am no more
worthy TO he called thy son: make
me as one of thy hired servants.
well. | am glad that down there
in his humility and degradation and
want he found the right way,
learned the right lesson. learned now
10 correct mistake Some people,
because they have gone wrong, think
there is no hope for them; some peo-
ple when they make a mistake, think
il never can be corrected. But II the
prodigal boys. the young men who
have gone wrong, and who are peat
ing around in the world, and who are
ashamed to look into the faces oil
their own. would just turn their steps
homeward. If they would do as dia
this prodigal son. He arose and came
To his father. He went home. am
glad that he went home. before 1t
was too late: that when he got there.
his father wasn't lying out IN the
sepulcher. remember. when my
mother died. that ] went away on a
journey to throw off the sorrow OF II
all. and when | returned the place
seemed more desolate than ever.
Mothers chair was empty now,
mothers smile. mothers face greeted
me no more. The old home is broken
np. and mother rests in that sweet,
sunderland of peace, but | am glad
that while she lived. ! did what |
could to make her last days happy
oh. man: Oh. woman. be good to
those who gave you life, and trained
you up into manhood's ways. IL VIII
come to you. in after years like a
blessed benedietion. Oh, prodigal.