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VKnPaKi.L TALMAGE IN EUJIOPE. PRACTICAL fJEftMON ON THE PROD IGAL SON. Pin I a Mean and Oiintrinptllijo Thing at Alt Times, and the I'rontlirs (it Katan Am Never Kept I'rncrastliiatlan Always Dangerous. London, Aug. 'Jl. Dr. Tnluingo linn torn Breaching during tho pant week every day. IrMdra the eiiKiiKi'ineulM tniulo In hla orlmlnnl programme for tha week bo prenched In fuverul toivim which ho hail promised to visit enrller, but liml Iwen un nhln (o do mi owIiik to no much morn time tlmn ho expected Ih'Iiik tnken tip by hta vUlt to HiiHutn, whither ho went to attend tlmdintrihutlon of Tim Chrlatlnii Hernld relief enro. Tho caiicellnn of theno en (cnKeineuta CAiueii acute (llHnpiKilntitient to tho cltlr.enx, ami no far na poHxIblo Dr. TalmnRc lias yielded to their entreaties to fix a inter date. Tho nudlencea lat week nt Icdn, llrndfonl, Hhcflleld nnd Derby wero enormoiiH, nnd nt each place the pop ular ovation In tho ntreets wna moit en tliualnntic. Tho xcrtnon aelected for pub lication thin week la from tho text, Luko xv, 18, "I will nrlno nnd no to my father." There la nothing like, hunger to take tho energy ont of n man. A lnniKry man can toll neither with pen nor hand nor foot. There Iihh been nn army defeated not ho much for inck of nmniunltlon nn for lack of bread. It wax that fact that tiwik tho lire out of thin youiiK man of tho text. Storm nnd oxpoturo will wear out any nmii'n life in time, but httiiKor inukeK quick work. Tho most awful cry over heard on earth is tho cry for bread. A traveler tells us that In Asia Minor there nro trees which bear fruit looking very much like tho long Wan of our time, It is called tho earali. Ouco in awhile, tho people reduced to destitution would eat these cnrnlm, but generally the caralw, the bonus spoken or hero In too text, wero thrown only to tho swlno nnd they crunched them with Krent avidity. Hut this young man of my text could not net oven them without stealing them. So one day amid tho swine troughs bo begins to pollloqulzu. ilornys, "l'lieso nro no clothes torn rich man's sou to wenr; this Is no kind of business for a .Tow to bo engaged In feed ing swine; I'll go home; I'll go homo; I will nrlso and go to my father." I know there, nro n great many people who try to throw n fascination, a rotuntico, n halo nbout sin; but notwithstanding nil thnt Lord Hymn nnd George Sand have said In regard to It, it Is a menu, low, contempt ible liUH..tcss, nnd putting food and fishier Into tho troughsof a herd of iniquities that mot nnd wallow In tho soul of man Is very poor business for men nnd women Intended to lie sons nnd daughters of tho Lonl Al mighty. And when this young mnu re solved to go homo it wna a very wiso thing for him to do, and tho only question is whether wo will follow him. Satan promises largo wages if wo will servu him, but he clothes Ids victims with rags and ho pinches them with hunger, nnd when they start out to do better he seta nfter them nil tho bloodhounds of hell. Satan cornea to us today nnd ho promises all luxuries, nil emoluments If wo will only servo him. Liar, down with theo to tho pltl "Tho wages of sin is death." Oh, the young man of tho text was wiso wheu he uttered tho resolution, "I will nrlso nnd go to my father." 8KK YOU1ISKI.K AS IN A GLASS. In tho time of Queen Mary of Knglnnd a persecutor cuiuo to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house, for tho lord's sake, one of Christ's servants, nml tho per secutor snld, "Where is that heretic)" Tho Christian woman said, "You open thnt trunk nnd you will seo tho heretic." The persecutor opened tho trunk, mid on tho top of tho linen of tho trunk ho saw a glns. Ho snld, "There is no heretic here." "Ah!" she Mild, "you look in tho glass mid you will seo the heretlol" Ah I tako up tho mirror of God's word today, I would thnt Instead of seeing the prodigal of tho text we might seo ourselves our want, our wandering, our sin, our lost condition so thnt wo might bo as wiso as this young man ,vni and sny, "I will nrlso nnd go to iny father." Tho resolution of this text was formed in disgust nt his present circumstances. If this young man bad been by his employ er net to culturlng flowers, or training vines over nn nrbor, or keeping account of tho pork market, or overseeing other lnlxir- era be would not hnvo thought of going home. If ho iiad had bis pockets full of money, if be l.ad been nblo to say: "I have a thousand dollars now of my own; what's the use of my going back to my father's houscf Do you think I nm going back to apologize to tho old manf Why, he would put me on tho limits; ho would not hnvo going on around the old place such con duct na I have been engaged In. I won't go home. There is no reason why I should go home. I huvo plenty of money; plenty of pleasant surroundings. Why should I go homer" Ahlitwiut bis pauperism; it was his beggary. Ho had to go homo. Some, mnu comes and says to me: "Why do you talk nbout tho ruined state of tho human soulf Why don't you speak nbout tho progr'chsof thoNineteenth century, and tain or something more cxlillnrntliigr" It Is for this reason a man never wants the Oospel until he realizes be is in n famine struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your homo nnd you are in good robust health, nnd I should begin to talk about medicines, and about how much bet ter this medicine Is than that, nnd oomo other medicine than some other medicine, nnd talk about this physician and that physician. After awhile you would get tired, and you would say, "I don't want to hear nbout medicines. Why do you talk to mo of physicians? I never have rv doc tor." Suppose I come into your house nnd find you severely sick, nnd I know the niedl cinea that will cure you, and I know the lilnl.in tul.n la .Hllf..l .w.....l. . ' yu j .,.. niiuinpKHI.UI ITIIUUIi IU llltl'lr your case. You any: "Hrlng on nil thnt medicine; bring on that physician. I nm terribly sick and I want help." If I came to you and you feel you are nil right In body and all right In mind nnd all right in soul you have need of uothlog; but sup pose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sick ness, oh, then you say, "Bring me that balm of tho Gospel; bring me thnt divine medicament; bring me Jesus Christ." OUU UUISKI) CONDITION. Dut nays some one in the audience, "How do you prove that we nro in a ruined condition by slur" Well, I can prove it iu two ways, and you may have your choice. I can prove It either by the statements of men or by tho statement of God. Which shall It be? You nil say, "Let us have the statement of God." Well, he says iu one place, "The heart Is deceitful above all things mid leperately wicked." He say in another place, "What Is mnu that he should be clean? nnd he which is I torn of a woman, that he should be righteous?" He faya in another place, "There is none that dceth good; no, not one." He Bays iu an other place, "An by one man ala entered Into the rt-orld, nnd dentil by sin; nnd no death pawed upon nil men, for that all hnvo sinned," "Well," you any, "I nm willing to no knowledgo thnt, but why should I tnke the particular rescue that you propose?" This Is the rcasotv "Kxevpt 11 mnu Iw bom Again ho cannot seo the kingdom of God." This Is tho reason, "There Is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may Imj saved." Then there nro a thousand voice hero ready to say, "Well, I nm ready to accept this help of the Gos pel; I would llku to hnvo this divine cure; how shnll I go to work?" Ictmo say that more whim, an undefined longing amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, tremendous resolution like till young mnu of tho text when ho snld, "I will nrlso and go to my father." "Oh!" says some man," how do I kuow my fattier wants me? How do I know, if I go back, I would bo received?" "OhI" says some mnu, "you don't know where I have l en; you don't know how far I hnvo wandered; you wouldn't tnlk thnt way to mo If you kuow all tho Iniquities I have committed." What is that Hotter among tho angels of God? It is news, it is news I Christ has found tho lost. Nor nnitcls ran their Joy contain, Hut kindled with now lire; The dinner lost Is found, they slug, And strike the founding lro. When Napoleon talked of going Into Italy they snld: "You can't get there; If you knew what tho Alps were you wouldn't talk about it or think of It; you can't get jour ammunition wagons over tho Alps." Then Napoleon rose In bis stirrups and waving his hand toward tho mountains ho said, "There shall bo no Alps." That wonderful pass was laid out which has heel 1 tho wonderment of all tho years since tho wonderment of all en gineers. And you tell mu there nro such mountains of sin lctwccn your soul and God there is 110 mercy. Then I seo Christ waving ills baud toward tho mountains, nnd I hear him say, "I will come over the mountains of thy slu and the hills of thlno Iniquity." There shall be no Pyrenees, there shall be no Alps. Again, I notice thnt this resolution of the young man of the text wna founded in sorrow at Ills mlsbehnvlor. It wna not mere physical plight. It was grief thnt ho had so maltreat cd his father. It is a sad thing nfter n father tins done everything for a child tohnvo tlmtchlld bo ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent's tooth It Is To luixo iv thankless child. BHAKKSITAItK AND TIIK IlIIII.i:. That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." That is the lllhle. Well, my friends, hnvo not someof us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! So loving, so kind. If ho had been a stranger, if ho had forsaken us, if ho hud flagellated uh, If ho had pounded us and turned us out of doors on the commons, It would not have been so wonderful our treatment of him; but he In a Father so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderlngii hnvo never apologized! We apologize for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us perhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God nnd never apologized. I remark still further that this resolu tion of the text was founded in a feeling of homesickness. I do not know how long this young man, how many months, how many years, ho hud lieen away from his father's house; hut there Is something J about tho reading of my text that makes me think lie was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far nwny from home sometimes surrounded by everything bright nnd pleasant plenty of friends you havo said, "I would give tho world to 1h homo tonight." Well, this young man was homesick for his father's house. I have no doubt when ho thought of ids father's house ho said, "Now pcr hnpi father may not bo living." Wo rend nothing in this story this para ble founded on everyday life wo read nothing nbout the mother. It says noth ing nbout going home toiler. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart nt his wanderings, or perhaps ho had gone into dissipation from the fact ho could not remember a loving nnd sympa thetic mother. A man never gets over hav ing lost his mother. Nothing snld ulKUit her here, but he is homesick for his fa ther's house. He thought ho would just like to go and walk around tho old place. He thought lie would just liko to go nnd see if things wero um they used to be. Many a man, after having been off for a long while, has gone homo nnd knocked at the door nnd n stranger has come. It is tho old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door. Ho finds out father is gone, mother is gone and brothers nnd sisters all gone. I think this young mnu of tho text snld to himself, "Perhaps father may be dead." Still ho starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any hero today homesick for God, homesick for heaven? A sailor, nfter having liccn long on the sea, returned to his miner's house, ami his mother tried to persuade him not to go ' l ' "M1"'!',0. ,8 aMh,!,l, fr, '"?' P'" awav again. She said: "Now, you had think I will ever get over this ife o dssi Wtter stav nt home: don't iro nwnv: we Ptl"" " f U, "John, .there is just don't want you to go. You will have It a "? thing that will stop this." llio prodl great deal better here." But it made him ran '? " '? "'"wl angry. Tho night lieforo ho went nwAy fal!1' T,mt ' stop it, nnd I'll stop it again to m V,e hennl bis mother ,)rnyIK I before night. Oh, my brain; lean stand in tho next rtxJm and that made him more i l no longer!" Thut prodigal never got angry. Ii vvnit far out on the sen, nml a storm came up, nnd lie wna ordered to very perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines, nnd amid the shrouds of the ship he heard tho voico thnt ho had beard iu tho next room. Ho tried towliUtlc it off, lie tried to rally his courage, but ho could not silence that voico lie had heard lu the next room, and there In the storm nnd the durki.ess he said: "O Lordl what n wretch 1 have Wen. what a wretch I nml Heln me lust nn, Ti.ir-,iH Ami i timing,, in tt.1. assemblage today there may W some who "1?J persuailu them back, ilo per may have the memory of a father's petl- , 8Uft,u'tl ,,u " 1Iu went with very easy tlon or a mother' prayer pressing might- pc-rsuaslon, Wcause lie was very homesick llv uixm tho soul, and that this hour they already. The other young mnu wild: "1 w.. v..va vrwl. - - nv .- ily upon the soul, and that this hour they may make the same resolution I find iu my text, saying, "I will arise and go to my rather." THE LOST ONK HK8TOISKD. A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe, went out Into thu sen, went out too far, got beyond bis depth ud lie floated faraway. A ship bound for Dublin came along nml took him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, aud one gave him n cap, aud Another gave him a jacket, and another gave hint shoes, A gentleman passing along ou tho beach at Liverpool found tho lad's clothes and took them home, nnd tho fnther was heartbroken and the mother was heartbroken at the los of their child. They had heard nothing from hint day after day, ami they ordered tho usual mourning for the sad event. Hut the lad took ship from Dublin nnd arrived in Lherpuol the very day the gar ments arrived. He kuocketi nt thetioor and the father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of thvlp liwt urn. Dli. nil frli-lldri. lwlVM VOU waded out too deep? Have you waded dowu Into slu? Hnvo you waded from the shore? Will you como bnctf When you tome back will you como In the rags of your sin, or will you como rolxtl in tho Saviour's rlghteousiu-ss? I believe tho lat ter. Go home to your God today. Hois waiting for you. Go home! Hut I remark tho characteristic of thl resolution was, it was Immediately put into execution. Tho context says "ho nroso nnd enmo to his father." Tho trouble in nine hundred and nlnety-nlno times out of n thousand is thnt ourrcsoliitlotiH amount to nothing be cause wo make them for some distant time. If I resolve to beenmo n Christian next year, thnt amounts to nothing nt nil. If I resolve to liecomo n Christian tomorrow, tliat amounts to nothing nt nil. If I re nolvo nt tho service today to liecomo a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go homo today to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. Tho only kind of resolution that Amounts to anything is tho resolution that is immediately put Into execution. There is a mnu who had the pliold fever. Ho said, "Oh, it I could gut over this terrible distress, if this fever should depart, if I could bo restored to health, I would all tho rest of my life serve GihI," Tho fever departed. Ho got well enough to walk around tho block. Ho got well enough to attend to business. He Is well today as well as lie over was. Where Is the broken vow? There Is 11 man who said long ago: "If I could live to tho year Ibirj, by that time I will have my business mat ters all arranged, and I will have time to attend to religion, and I will lie a good, thorough, consecrated Christian. "The year 1803 has come. January, February, March, April, May, June, July fully half of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? "Oh," says some man, "I'll attend to that wheu I can get my character fixed up; when I can get over my evil habits. I am now given to strong drink," or, says the man, "I um given tounclenuuess," or, says tho man, "I am given to dishonesty. When I get over my present habits, then I'll he a thorough Christian." My brother, you will get worse and worse until Christ takes you iu hand. "Not tho righteous, sinners Jesus came to call." "Oh," but oil say, "I ngreo with you on nil thnt, hut I must put it off n little long er." Do you know there wero ninny who came just as near its you nro to tho king dom of God and never entered it? I was nt Fast Hampton, Long Island, nnd I went Into tlio cemetery to look around, and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by side tho graves of sailors. This crew, some years ago, lu a ship, went into the breakers at Amagausett, about three miles nwny. My brother, then preaching at Fast Hampton, bad Wen nt the burial. Thcc men of tho crew came very near being saved. The people from Amagaiisett saw tho vessel, and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from t lie shore, nnd these oor fellows got Into tho boat and they pulled mightily for the shore, but just before they got to the shore tho rope snapped, and the boat capsized, and they wero lost and their bod lea afterward washed upon the bench. Oh, what a solemn day it wns I have been told of it by my brother when these twelve men lay nt the foot of the pi,it nnd lie read over them the funeral service. They came very near shore within shout ing distance of the shore, yet did not ar rive on solid hind. There ore some men who como almost to tho shore of God's mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be only lmost saved Is to be lost. iiir. 11111 r.i.r.aa ritiii'itiAi 1 will tell you of two prodigals, the one thnt got hack nnd tho other that did not get back. In Richmond there is n very i iniperuii nun ueuiiiiiui iiumu in ninny respects. A young man wandered off from thnt home. He wandered very far into sin. They heard of him often, but ho was always on tho wrong trnck. Ho would not go home. At tho door of that licuutiful homo one night there was n gieat outcry. Tho young man of tho house ran down and opened the door to see what was tho mat ter. It wns midnight. The rest of tho family wero nsleep. There were the wife nnd children of this prodigal young man. Tho fact was ho had come homo nnd driven them out. Ho said: "Out of thin house. Away with thrso children. I will dash their brains ont. Out Into the storm!" Tho mother gathered them up and tied. The next morning the brother, n young man who had staid nt home, went out to find this prodigal brother nnd son, and he came where lie was nnd saw tho young man wandering up nnd down in front of the place where ho had Wen staying, nnd the young mnn who land kept his integrity said to the older brother: "Here, what does this mean? What is the matter with you? Why do you act in this way?" Tim prodi gal look 11I nt him and said: "Who am I? Whom do you take me to W?" He snld: "You are my brother." "No, 1 nm not. I nm a brute. Have you seen anything of my wife nnd children? Are they dead? I drove them out last night in cue storm, i nm a urine, John, do you home. Hut I will tell you of a prodigal thnt did get home. Iu thin country two young men started from their father's house and went down to Portsmouth. The father could not pur sue his children; for some reason he could not leave home, nnd so ho wrote a letter down to Mr. Grlflln, saying: "Mr. Grlfllu, I wish you would go nnd seo my two sons. I They have arrival In Portsmouth, and they ' nro B,olnK t0,tak,","l,,p ftml f,olnB ftw'iy , 'ro, ll.01"?- v.Ml ' wo,,1(l Pewundo them hack." Mr. Urllllii went and be . .- . . . I . l T will not go. I have had enough of home. I'll never go home." "Well," said Mr. Grlflln, "then if you won't go home I'll get you a respectable position ou a respect able ship," "No, you won't," said the prodigal; "uo, you won't. I um going ns a ! common llr; that will plngue my father , most, and what w 1 do most to tantalize BDtl worr' wiu Vh'aHe ,,,e '" TIIK l'JlODIC.AI. UKbTOltKl), Years passed on and Mr. Grlflln was seated Iu Lis study one day wheu a mes sage came to him saying there was a young man lu irons ou a ship at tho dock a young man condemned to death who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. Grlflln went dowu to thu dock and went on ship board. The young man said to him, "You don't know me. do you?" "No," he said; "I don't know you." "Why, don't j ou re memWr that young man you tried to per suade to go home and he wouldn't go?" "Oh, yes," said Mr. Grlflln; "are ou that mnu?" "Yes, I am that man," said thu other. "I would like to lirve you pray for ! '" 'ifi I have committed murder nnd I must but I don't want to go out of this world until someone prays forme. Ym era my father's friend nnd I would like to havo you pray for me." Mr. Grlflln went from Judicial authority to judicial authority to get that young man's pardon. He slept not night nor day. He went from 'Influential person to In lin en tlnl person until in some way .he got that young man's pardon. He cnmodown'oti the dock, nnd as he arrived ou the dock with the pnrdon tho fnther came. lie had heard that his son under a disguised name had been committing crime and was going to bo put to death, So Mr. Griffin and the fnther went on ship's deck, nnd nt the very moment Mr. Grlflln offered the pnrdon to the young man tho old fnther threw his nrms around the sou's neck nnd tho son said: "Father, I have done very wrong nnd I nm very sorry, I wish I had never broken your heart. I am very sorry." "Oh," said the father, "don't mention it. It don't make any difference now. It is nil over, I forgive you, my son," nnd ho kissed him nnd kissed him nnd kissed him. Today I offer you the pardon of tho Gos pelfull pardon, free pardon. 1 do not caro what your crime has been. Though you say you have committed a crime against God, against your own soul, against your fellow man, against your family, against tho day of judgment, against the crossof Christ whatever your crime has been, here Is pardon, full pardon, and the very moment you take that pardon your heavenly Father throws ills arms about you and says: "My son, I forgive) ou. It Is nil right. You nru ns much Iu my favor now as if you had never sinned." Oh, there Is joy on earth and Joy In heaven! Who will tako tho Father's embrace? Nhnkrspenrn' Simplicity. Many of Shakespeare's contemporary poets must hnvo hnd every advantage t lint lie had in practical cxpcrlcncoof the stage, and nil of them had probably as familiar nn Intercourse with the theater as lie. Dm what udilTereuco between their maimer of constructing a play and hlsl In all his dramatic works his skill lu this Is more 01 lens apparent. In the best of them it N unrivaled. From tho llrst scene of them beseems to hnvo beheld as from n timet the end of all. In "Romeo nnd Juliet," for example, he hnd bis story Wforo him, nnd lie follows it closely enough; but how naturally one scene Ih linked to the next nml one event leads to another. If this play wero meant to Illustrate auj thing it would seem to W that our lives wero ruled by chance. Yet there Is noth ing left to chance, in tho action of tho play which advances with tho un vacillating foot of destlulty. And the characters are made to subordinate themselves to the lutcrcstn of tho play ns to something In which they have all a common concern. With the greater part of tho secondary dramatists tho character seem like tin practiced people trying to walk the deck of a ship In rough weather, who start for everywhere to bring up nnywhere. aniline hustled against each other in the most In convenient way. It is only when tho plot is very simple and straightforward that there Is any ch.'tuco nl smooth water and of things go ing on without falling foul of each other. Was it only that Shakespeare, in choosing ills themes, hnd n keener perception of the dramatic possibilities of a story? This is very likely, and It is certain thnt he pre ferred to take n story ready to his hnnd rather than invent one. All tho good stories, Indeed, seem to havo invented themselves In tho most obliging manner somewhere in the morning of tho world, nnd to havo been camp followers when the famous march of mind set out irom the farthest east. James Hussell Lowell in Harper'a How the Cluu '1'onsiim lifetime Nine. The fact that thcopossum Is a marsupial does not seem to be common knowledge. Anyway it wns revealed to a man who lives on Long Island in nn odd manner not long ago. Ho killed one of tho animals in ills garden with a gun nnd dragged the carcass to tho house. The hired mnn told him thnt by taking It to tho magistrate at Pntchogue, some five miles distant, ho could get n bounty of fifty cents, which wns offered by the county. Tho mnn did not nt tho time have any occasion to go to tho town, so ho offered tho opossum to a neighbor who drove by on his way to Pat chogue. This man didn't think that half n dollar would pay him for the trouble In volved, so hu declined the gift with thanks. That afternoon it occurred to tho wife of tho mnu who hml killed the animal that alio would- have to drive to Patchoguo to mnko some purchases. She suggested that her husband throw the body Into the bottom of the buggy under tho seat, as lie might as well make tho fifty cents as not. He did this and they drove to town to gether. After attending to their shopping they stopped in front of tho magistrate's office nnd tho husband alighted. He went Whlnd the vehicle to tako out the opos sum, when, lo and Wholdl he found eight little ones beside the old animal, Tho mother had tucked them all Intntlm ' pouch under her breast nt thu hound of danger and they had remained snugly hid den until shaken out by the jolting of the buggy. The amateur nlmrod therefore brought down ti.tiO with his shot instead of one-ninth of that sum, us ho had at first supposed. New York Tribune. A Tragic Story. A Leu Is ton dog mmlo n grave mistake Saturday. It is certain Unit "grave" de scribes it, for liu died of mortification Inter ami had to W burled. A little girl u Itli whom he hnd Wen playing had a cracker in her hand which tho dog greatly desired. She lifted it to her mouth to hito it t-icii the clog snapped nt the morsel and not only got that, but thu child's uomj with it. 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