X. J TALMAGE'S SEEM ON. "STARTING FOR HOME" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Golden Text: "I Will Arl.e and Co to My Father and Will Say to Him. Father I Ui? Sinned Against Heaven. HERE IS NOTH lng like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hun gry man can toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot. There has been many an army de feated, not so much for lack of ammuni tion as for lack of tread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out any man's life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A traveler tells us that in Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit look ing very much like the long bean of our time. It is called the carob. Once in a while the people, reduced to destitu tion, would eat these carobs, but gen erally the carobs, the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine, and they crunched them with great avidity. But this young man of my text could not even get them without stealing them. So one day, amid the swine troughs, he begins to soliloquize. He says: "These are no clothes for a rich man's son to wear; this is no kind of business for a Jew to be engaged in, feeding swine; I'll go home; I'll go home; I will arise and go to my father." I know there are a great many people who try to throw a fasci nation, a romance, a halo about sin; but notwithstanding all that Lord Byroa and George Sand have said in regard to it. it is a mean, low, con temptible business, and putting fcod and fodder Into the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root and wallow In the soul of man is a very poor business foi men and women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, and when this young man resolved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is, whether we will follow him. Satan promises large wages if we will serve him; but he clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Satan comes to us to-day and he promises all luxuries and emolu ments If we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! "The wages of sin is death." Oh! the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution, "I will arise and go to my father." In the time of Mary, the persecutor, a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house for the Lord's sake one of Christ's servants, and the persecutor said: "Where Is that heretic?" The Christian woman said: "You open that trunk and you will see the heretic." The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the trunk he saw a glass. He said: "There is no heretic here." "Ah!" she said, "you look In the glass and you will see the heretic." As I take up the mirror of God's Word to-day, I would that, instead of teeing the prodigal of the text, we might see ourselves our want.our wan dering, our sin. our lost condition, so that we might be as wise as this young man was and say. "I will arise and go to my father." The resolution of this text was formed in a disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man had been by his emploj-er set to culturlcg flowers, or training vines over an arbor, or keeping an account of the pork market, or overseeing other laborers, h would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to Bay, "I have a thousand dollars now of my own, what's the use of my going back to apologize to the old man? why, be would put me on the limits; he would not have going on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged In; I won't go home; there is no reason why I should go home; I have plenty of money, plenty of pleas ant surroundings; why should I go home?" Ah! it was his pauperism. It was tis beggary. He had to go home. Some man comes and says to me: "Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul? Why don't you speak about the progress of the nineteenth century, and talk of something more exhilarating?" It is for this reason: A man never wants the Gospel until he realizes he is in a famine-struck state. Suppose I should come to you In your. home, and you are In good, sound, robust health, and I should be gin to talk about medicines, and abont how much better this medicine is than that, and some other medicine than some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician. Af ter awhile you would get tired, and you would say: "I don't want to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians? I never have a doctor." But suppose I come into your house and I find you severely sick, and I know the medicines that will cure you, and I know the physician that Is skillful enough to meet your case. , You say: "Bring on that medicine, bring on that physician. I am terribly sick, and I want help." If I come to you and you feel you are all right In body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have need of nothing, but suppose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness. Oh! then you say, "Bring me that balm of the Gospel, bring me that divine medicament, bring me Jesus Christ." "But." says some one in the ludlence, "how do "you know that we are in a ruined condition by sin?" Well, I can prove it in two ways, and you may have your choice. I can prove it either by the statements of men or by the statement of God. Which shall it be? You say, "Let us have the state ment of God." Well, he says in one place, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." He says in another place, "What Is a man that he should be clean? and he which is born of woman, that he should be righteous?" He says in another place. "There is none that doeth good no, not one." He says in another place, "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned." "Well." you say, "I am will ing to acknowledge that, but why should I take the particular rescue that you propose?" This is the reason: "Ex cept a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." This is the rea son: "There is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may be saved." Then there are a thousand voices here ready to say: "Well, I am ready to accept this help of the Gospel; I would like to have this divine cure; how shall I go to work?" Let me say that a mere whim, an undefined long ing amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, a tremendous resolution like this young man of the text when he said, "I will arise and go to my father." "Oh," says some man, "how do I know my father wants me? how do I know, if I go back, I would be received?" "Oh," says some man, "you don't know where I have been; you don't know how far I have wandered; you wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have com mitted." What is that flutter among the angels of God? What is that horseman running with quick dispatch? It is news, it is news! Christ has found the lost. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire. The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre. "When Napoleon talked of going Into Italy, they said, "You can't get there. If you knew what the Alps were you wouldn't talk about it or think about it. You can't get your ammunition wagons over the Alps." Then Napoleon rose in his stirrups, and, waving his hand toward the mountains, he said, "There shall be no Alps!" That won derful pass was laid out which has been the wonderment of all the years since the wonderment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such moun tains of sin between your soul and God, there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving his hand toward the mountains. I hear him say, "I will come over the mountains of thy sin and the hills of thine iniquity." There shall be no Pyrenees; there shall bo no Alps. Again: I notice that this resolution of the young man of my text was found ed in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that he had so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child. That is Shakesx rre. "A foolish son Is the heaviness of his mother." That Is the Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! Three times a day has he fed thee. He has poured sun light into thy day and at night kindled up all the street-lamps of heaven. With what varieties of apparel he hath clothed thee for the seasons. Whose eye watches thee? Whose hand defends thee? Whcse heart sympathizes with thee? Who gave you your children? Who is guarding your loved ones de parted? Such a father! So loving, so kind. If he had been a stranger; if he had forsaken us; if he had flagellated us; if he had pounded us and turned us out of doors on the commons, it would not have been so wonderful our treatement of him; but he is a Father, so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderings have never apologized! If we say anything that hurts our frijend's feelings, if we do anything that hurts feelings of those in whom we are Interested, how quick ly we apologize! We can scarcely wait until we get pen and paper to write a letter of apology. How easy It Is for any one who is intelligent, right-hearted, to write an apology, or make an apology! We apologize for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us per haps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark still further, that this reso lution of the text was founded in a feel ing of home-sickness. I do not know how long this young man, how many months, how many years he had been away from his father's house, but there is something about the reading of my text that makes me think he was home sick. Some of you know what that feel ing is. Far away from home some times, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant plenty of friends you have said: "I would give the world to be home to-night." 'Well, this young man was homesick for his father's house. I have no doubt when he thought of his father's house he said:. "Now, perhaps father may not be living." We read nothing in this story this parable founded on every-day life we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wander ings, or, perhaps he had gone Into dis sipation from the fact that he could not remember a loving and sympathetic mother. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her, but he is homesick for his father's house. He thought he would Just like to go and walk around the old place. He thought he would Just like to go and see if things were as they used to b. Many a man after having been off a long while has gone home and knocked at the door, and a stranger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door. He finds out that father is gone, and mother is gone, and brothers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to him self. "Perhaps father may be dead. Still, he starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any here to-day homesick for God, homesick for heav en? A sailor, after having been long on the sea. returned to his father's house, and his mother tried to persuade him not to go away again. She said, "Now, you had better stay at home. Don't go away. We don't want you to go. You will have it a great deal bet ter here." But it made him angry. The night before he went away again to sea, he heard his mother praying in the next room, and that made him more angry. He went far out on the sea, and a storm came up and he was ordered to very perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines, and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that he had heard In the next room. He tried to whistle it off, he tried to rally hi3 cour age; but he could not silence the voice he had heard In the next room, and there in the storml and darkness he said, "O Lord! what a wretch I have been? What a wretch I am! Help mo Just now. Lord God." And I thought In this assemblage to-day there may be some who may have the memory of a father's petition, or a mother's prayer pressing mightily upon the soul, and that this hour they may make the same resolution I find In my text, say ing: "I will arise and go to my father." A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; went out into the sea, went out too far, got beyond his depth and he floated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one gave him a cap, and another gave him a jacket, and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lad's clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken, at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning for the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the mourning arrived. He knocked at the door, the father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh, my friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down into sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back will you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed In the Savior's righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He Is waiting for you. Go home! But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was. It was immediately put into execution. The context says "he arose and came to his father." The trouble In nine hundred and ninety nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing, because we make them for some distant time, if I resolve to become a Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all.' If I resolve to become a Christian to morrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at the service this day to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go home to-day to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of resolution that amounts to anything Is the resolution that is Immediately put into execution. There is a man who had the typhoid fever, he said: "Oh! if I could get over this ter rible disease; if this fever should de part; if I could be restored to health, I would all the rest of my life serve God." The fever departed. He got well enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to go over to business. He is well to-day as well as he ever was. Where is the broken vow? Not Far Oat of the Way. A young' woman from out of towa went to a tea among1 the literary set i last week, says the Washington Post, j She was introduced to a whole room- ful of people, and afterwards she went ' about trying- to call everybody by his I right name. She remembered an amaz- ing- number of names, but when she : came to one distinguished looking- man I she paused in despair. "I know : everybody else's name, she said, "but : when I try to remember yours I am completely at sea." "Then you're not : far wrong-," said the distinguished looking man, "my name is Atwater." FASHION NOTES. A superb costume was recently or dered for one of the coming White House receptions at Washington. The material is the new warp dyed silk about which the fashionable world has been quite enthusiastic. It ia in ivory white with roses 'shading from pink to dark maroon. The dress is lavishly draped with Valenciennes lace and is made with V shaped neck filled in with embroidered tulle; the sleeves are puffs of silk and lace, and are finished at the elbows with lace ruffles. The inner edge of the hem of the skirt has thick ruching made of white, pink and ma roon silk, pinked out at the edges and plaited together, the white ruffle being next to the skirt. An evening cloak is made of rich brocade. It has a deep yoke and high rolling collar of embroidered velvet; from the lower edge of the yoke fall tassel fringes of fine jet. These are at least half a yard in depth. The sleeves are very large puffs from shoulders to elbows, with fitted cuffs edged with sa ble. The garment falls to the feet and is finished down the front and around the hem with fur; the collar is fur-lined and may be worn standing or turned back upon the yoke. Judge of the Olympian Games. Universal peace during- the month of the games was proclaimed by heralds in every part of Hellas, and the slijrht est breaking of the sacred trine .v:;s thought sacrilege, which deities act! men alike were bound to punish. The judg-es of the fames, or "Hellano.: '. cate." ranginsr from nine to twelve in number at different times, were elected by the Eleans. All who wished to be judges were required to show not only that they had never committed a crime, public or private, but that they were stainless in moral character. Not unfrequently even men of distinc tion were excluded by this severe test during the golden age of Hellenic honor. "The Olympian Games' by Li. T. Ferris, in April St. Nicholas. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Tatarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. 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