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MSTMMII iilffffiiffl.
I would call the attention of farmers and
all others wishing a good meal, to the fact
that lam still running my
RESTAURANT,
Under the Barlow House, where 1 will serve
you up a warm meal at any hour. Oysters,
Fish and Game served in their season. I
also keep a full line of
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Americas; Ga., Sept.2o, 1882. tf
Drs. HEAD & BLACK
Have permanently established the wonder
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treatment rationally combined to meet ail
the various indications of the ills incident to
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promotes nutrition and digestion, removes
constipation, and while removing all op
pression of the system overcomes depression
and exhaustion, removes malaria and pre
vents Typhoid condition. It is tonic, cleans
ing tlie system internally and externally.
Dr. Black continues to make the treatment
of OANOEKS a specialty, he guarantees a
cure of all cases under his treatment.
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TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. Bell ITT TALMAGE
HOMESICKNESS.
Luke xv., IS: ‘Twill arise and go to my
father.”
When a man is thoroughly hungry
his energy is all gone, iic can toil
neither with brain nor hand. Many
an army has been defeated,not through
lack of amunition, but for lack of bread.
It was this that tamed the high spirit
of tlie young man mentioned in my
text, lie could have got along with a
rough blanket fora covering, the night
sky for a roof, and might have dropped
his thirst in a puiblil well: But he
must have something : i eat. Storm
and exposure in length of time will
wear out a man’s life, but hunger makes
quick work. This young man must
have something to eat within a few
hours or die. The traveler in Asia
Minor to-day will tell you that there
are trees that bear long beans, or
“carobs,” as they are sometimes called,
or bushes as they are sometimes trans
lated. These long beans are often eaten
by the poorer population, but more of
ten they are thrown to the swine that
crunch them with great avidity. The
young man in the text wants some of
these beans or earobs, but lie cannot
get them without stealing them. Seat
ed amid tlie sjvine troughs, perfectly
wretched, an idea flashes across him:
“1 will go home. These are no clothes
for a rich man’s son to wear. What
business is this for a Jew—feeding
swine? I can stand it no longer. [
will arise and go to my father.” Not
waiting to patcli up Lis poor clothes,or
improve his personal appearance, away
lie flies. Homesickness gives him a
fleet loot. See him, the youug man
who had bee’n oil'a good while, now is
on his homeward tramp. Are we, my
friends, ready to follow him? Novelists
have thrown around sin romance and
fascination, but my text tears off the
disguise. Notwithstanding all that
l.oid Byron and George Sami have said,
sin is a low, mean, contemptible busi
ness, and tilling the troughs for the herd
of iniquities that root and wallow in
the soul is no occupation for men and
women intended to bo sons and daugh
ters of the Lord Almighty. Oil, the
wisest tiling that that young man did
was to resolve to go hack. His circum
stances would never get any better
there. He could not sew up the rags.
He could not appease the hunger. Ilia
business would never become any more
respectable than it was. Go home,yon
poor hoy. lam glad to see you get up
with such good resolution, and the only
safe step for us to take is in tho same
direction. Satan iias a great many
beards of iniquity, ami he says he will
give us large wages if we will only
watch them. Liar! Down with thee
into the pit. “The wages of sin is
death!” Batan covers iiis employes
with rags; he pinches them with eternal
hunger, and when they are weary of the
business and try to get away, he chases
them with all the bloodhounds of per
dition. Oh, was it not a sensible thing
for tliis young man, when he found
himself in tlie destitution and suffering
of that wilderness, to say, “I will arise
and go to my father!”
In the time of Mary the queen, amid
the great persecutions, a persecutor
came to tlie house of an old Jhristian
woman and demanded what he called a
heretic that was hidden in the house.
The old Christian woman said: “Open
that trunk and you will find him.”
The persecutor opened the trunk and
on top of some linen lay a looking-glass,
and the persecutor looked in it and said:
“Where is the heretic I am looking
for?” and the old Christian woman
said: “Don’t you see him in the glass?”
As to-day we take up the glass of God’s
word 1 would that instead of seeing the
prodigal, we might see our own lost
condition by reason of our sin and be
so impressed with it that we should cry
out mighty to the Lord for His mercy.
I have, in tho first place, to remark
that this resolution of the prodigal was
made in a disgust at his present condi
tion. If his employer had set him to
tending flowers, or to training vines
over the arbor, or to keeping an account
of the pork market,or to overseeing the
other laborers, that young man would
have never gone home to his father’s
house. If he had had salary enough
to clothe himself even moderately; if he
had had salary enough to get on ordi
narily, he would have said: “I can get
along without these splendid things. I
can rough it just as a great many other
young men have roughed it.” If he
had had money in his pocket he never
would have started home. He would
have said: “What do I want of my
father with fifty, a hundred, a thousand
dollars in nry pocket? What do I want
to go home for? I will never apologize
to the old man. Besides that I have
one-third of the property coming to mo
any how. Besides if I went homo I
know father would put me on tho limits,
lie would not allow such going on in
the old place as I like to indugo in.
Come, my boys, fill high, and let’s
drink again to the good time that’s
coming!” Ah! it was his utter desti
tution and pauperism; it was the fact
that they begrudged him even the beans
and the carobs. It was because he had
come down to destitution boneath
which there was no lower depth that
he resolved to go to his father. Let me
here say that no man ever starts for
God until he is persuaded of his famine
struck condition. People say to minis-
ters: “Why do you stand and talk
about tho lost state of man?” For the
reason that unless men are persuaded
of it they don’t want the Gospel. If I
come into your house and you are well,
and I talk about powerful medicines
and physicians, you say: “That is
nothing to me, I have no cough, no
neuralgia, no rheumatism. Why do
you talk to me about medicine?” But
if I come into your house and you feel
that you aro desperately sick, and un
less you get help very soon you must
die, as soon as I begin to talk about
medicine or a doctor you say: “Bring
me them quickly or I shalldie.” Now,
if I can convince you that in your nat
ural condition you are lost; that you
are sick and diseased by reason of sin
from the crown of your head to the soles
of your feet, then you are ready to hear
me while I speak of Jesus Christ, the
Great Physician, and of the balm that
will heal all our wounds. And you say:
“How arc you going to prove it?”
Well, 1 could prove it by the assertion
of men, or I could prove it by giving
you God’s statement. Which shall it
Ire? God’s statement, every man says.
You shall have it. Jeremiah says:
“ The heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked.” Job: “Who
is man that he should be clean and he
which is born of a woman should be
righteous?”—Job xv., xvi. “How
much more abominable and filthy is
man which drinketh iniquity like wa
ter?” Go further and read. “There is
none that doeth good; no, not one.”
“As by one man sin entered into tlie
world and death by sin, so death hath
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned.” By every possible smile the
Bible sets forth tho truth that tve are
guilty, and that there is no help for us
so far as human medicament is concern
ed. Sin is a red-hot plowshare that
turned up Eden, and it has prostrated
the whole earth with the exhaustion of
death, and unless a man quits his sin
and comes to God for salvation lie can
not be saved. Prove it. I will prove
it: “Except a man be born again hecan
not sec the kingdom of God.” “There
is but one name given among men
whereby we can be saved, and that is
the name of Jesus.” Do not some of
yon begin to feel like that young man
of tlie text, weary of your sins? Do
you not feel like coming to tlie ward
robe of i Mill's mercy and asking for a
garment of pardoning love? Would
you not like to sit down at tlie great
banqueting table of God’s mercy? Are
there not some hero who would like to
be Christians? You cannot bo where
you are down in your sin. Go home!
go home! Make some stout resolution
like the young man of my text. A
mere whim, a mere indefinite longing,
will not amount to anything. The
young man of my text did not say-. “I
will wait until the carivan comes along
and I will get a ride. No!” with an
emphasis that sounded through all the
ages, he said: “1 will arise and go to
my father!”
1 remark, further, that the resolution
of the text was formed in sorrow at his
past behavior; it was not a mere phy
sical plight; it was sorrow at the
thought that he had so badly' treated
his father. Oh, it is a sad thing that
a son, after having been watched over
by a father and educated and cared for,
should go away and break that father’s
heart! “How sharper than a serpent’s
tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
That is Shakes pc re. “A foolish son is
the heaviness of his mother.” That is
tlie Bible. Oh, have wo not treated
our Father badly? And such a Father! I
Three times a day, with wonderful
regularity, lie has fed yon. Through
how many winters He has given you
wood and coal! How careful He has
been to see that you had apparel suited
to the climate and changes of the sea
sons! Who fed you this morning when
you arose? Who has sheltered your
household? Who has given you the
love of your children? In whose keep
ing are the departed loved ones of your
heart? Who pours golden sunlight by
day, and by night lights up the street
lamps of Heaven? On whose earth do
you walk? At whose fountains do y r ou
drink? Whose eye hath pitied you?
Whose hand hath helped you? Whose
heart had compassion on you? Whose
voice hath called you? Our Father, so
lenient, so loving, so generous hath He
been. Oh, we have all been cruel
prodigals. We have chosen the wil
derness to the loving arms of our Fath
er. Have you no coniessions to make?
Have you no sorrow to express? Have
you no pardon to ask foi? Have you no
resolution to make? Oh! if it had been
a stranger it would not have been so
wonderful that we turned away from
Him. If He had maltreated us, if He
had flagellated us unmercifully, if He
had turned ns out of doors, if He had
starved us, it would not have been
strange if we turned our backs on such
a Father. But no, He lias loved us,
lie lias fondled us, He has caressed us
all our life long. Are you sorry that
you have offended? Is there in this au
dience ono man frank enough to say:
“Father, I have sinned?” If you do
wrong to a friend you are willing to
apologize. You say: “I am sorry I
said that or did that.” Have you ever
apologized to God? Can it be that ten
thousand times ten thousand transgres
sions of your life are all uncancelled?
If it be so, may God have mercy upon
your soul.
J remark again that this resolution
of the text was formed in a feeling of
homesickness. I do not know how
long the young man had been gone—
how many weeks, how many years—
from his father’s house, but I am very
certain from the reading of the passage
I that he was homesick. It is a very
disagreeable feeling. You know what
it is. You have been away off', and
although you may have had plenty of
friends around you, and all the circum
stances were cheerful, you said within
your soul: “I would give the world
if I could be home,” Well, this young
man of the text was homesick. lie
wanted to walk around the old place
again. He wanted to see if the house
looked just as it used to look. Above
all, he wanted to see his father and
clasp him by the hand again. I think
perhaps the thought may have flashed
through his mind. “Perhaps father’s
dead.” \ou know that many a prodi
gal has come home after a long absence
and has knocked at the door, and a
stranger has come, and father is gone,
and mother is gone, arid brothers and
sisters are gone. The old homestead
has passed into some other possession,
and L think it was with all that anxie
ty that tlie young man of the text says:
“I will arise and go to my father, to
find him if I can.” Are there not
those here to-day who would like to
go back to God? Would you not
like to have Christ put his scarred hand
upon you and press you to his heart
and utter these melting words: “I
have loved you with an everlasting
love.” Oh, are there not those here
who are homesick for God, homesick
for heaven? 1 heard of a sailor boy who
came back to see his parents, and he
stayed a few days, and his mother
importuned him not to go away again,
and the night before ho went back to
sea lie heard her praying in the next
room. It made him harder than he
was before. He went to sea. One
hitter cold night he clambered up the
ratlines; lie was out on perilous duty.
The winds Tvere whistling around him
in tho darkness, and lie heard some
thing that first seemed like his moth
er’s voice, and then seemed like that
very prayer, and he trembled in the
darkness, and charged himself with
cowardice, and tried to-whistle off the
feeling: but all the more it pressed
through his >o:tl-—the very prayer he
heard his mother utter in the next room.
And there, amid the ship’s shrouds, he
cried: “God he merciful to me, a
sinner! Oh, it there be mercy for such
a wretch as i am, help me! Lord,
help me!” And 1 have thought while
standing here that perhaps some prodi
gal in tins audience might have coming
into his soul the memory of father’s
prayer or mother’s petition long ago
uttered, and that prayer might press so
mightily on your soul that you would
this moment surrender yourself to the
Lord who bought you.
I remark again that this resolution
of the text was immediately put into
execution. The text says he arose and
came to his father. The trouble is
that nine hundred and ninetyriine out
of the thousand of our resolutions
never amount to any tiling. We do
not carry them out. How many of ns
have, scores of times, resolved upon a
Christian life? And yet have not
entered it. Here is a man who,
twenty-five years ago, in the time of
typhoid fever, said: “O, Lord let me
get over this sickness and I will serve
Thee all the rest of my life.” The
lever departed; ho is well, in the house
of God to-day, and yet he has never
espoused the cause of Jesus. Here is
a man who said; “If I can only live
to see 1882, by that time I will get
over the rush of business, and I will
give my time to the Lord, and all the
rest of my days shall he spent in His
service;” and here we are, in 1882, and
that man has not kept his vow.
A resolution that I will become a
Christain next year, or next month, or
next week, or to-morrow, or ten o’clock
to-night, is worth nothing. The young
man of the text is one moment sitting
down amid tho swine and the husks.
Then he says; “I trill arise and go to
my father,” and he starts the very in
stant: as quick as that he is on his
way. O! my dear friends, are there
some of you to-day ready to start for
heaven? Do you not want to start now?
You feel your need of pardon. Why
not seek it now? You feel that you
need a title to heaven. Why not get
it now? llow many have put it off?
And there are some who say: “I must
get my life changed first, and I must
get better first, and then I will come.”
All, my brother, you will get worse
and worse until you come to Christ.
No man ever made himself better.
“Not the righteous;
Sinners Jesus came to call.”
“But,” say, you “put it off a little long
er and I will come.” Ah! that is what
one of olden time said: “Go thy way
for this time, I will attend to it after
a while.” Did he? No, he went away
and perished. To he almost a Christ
ian is to be no Christian at all. At
Anagansette, Long Island, a vessel
canto ashore and dashed itself to pieces
in the breakers and tho men on the
beach threw ropes and shot rockets,
and tho ciew of the wrecked vessel
got in a small boat and pulled toward
the beach, and they came almost to the
shore, but the rope snapped and they
were swamped. There corpse the next
day tossed upon the beach. They
came within a stones throw of rescue
and yet they perished. Oh, how many
men thete are who come almost to the
beach of heaven, within arm’s reach
of pardon and peace and salvation, yet
right there they are swamped forever.
Do you know, my brother, that eterni
ty is at stake in this matter? Y’ou
would not risk SIOO on as poor securi
ty as you have for your immortal soul.
If you lend a man ijilOO you take a
note for it. It you buy property you
take a deed for it. If you build a
house you get insurance on it. And
yet for your everlasting inheritance
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yon have no title, uo promise, no hope.
Why will you starve in the desert
when you might feast in your Father’s
house? God wants you to come back;
the angels wants you to come back;
the Church of Christ wants you to
come back. God, the infinitely love
ly and patient One, leans from His
throne to-day and stoops over with
every possible entreaty and says:
“Come now, and let us reason together.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
And then God lilts his right hand and
takes an affidavit, saying: “As I live,
saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure
in the death of Him that dieth. Turn
ye; turn ye; why will ye die?”
I want to tell you of two prodigals—
the one that came hack to his father’s
house and the other that did not. In
Richmond, \ a., there tvas a young man
vho had every advantage in his father’s
house of a Christain education, and he
wandered away. He forgot his father’s
counsel and his mother’s love—further
and further ho wandered, until he was
a prodigal. One night in one of the
finest homes in Yirginia, while the
family were sound asieep, at midnight
there was a loud rapping at the door
and the crying of children outside. Tho
young man of the household rushed
down, and opening tlie door, found that
it was the wife and the children of his
brother, the prodigal. The prodigal
had come home to his own dwelling,
and at some word of the wife that
offended him he said: “Out of this
house! Away with the children! I will
dash their brains out!” And they fled
through the darkness to their grand
father’s house. The next morning the
young man went out to see the prodi
gal who had driven his own family
away. lie found him pacing up and
down in front of iiis house, and said to
him: “What are you doing here?
What is the matter with yon?” and
the prodigal turned upon him and said:
“What do you think of me?” “Why
I think you aro my brother.” “No,”
said he, “I am a brute. I turned them
out in the storm Inst night. I am a
brute.” And then he said: “O, brother,
brother, do you think there is any cure
iorme? Do you think I will ever get
over these wanderings? Do you think
I will ever stop tliis life of dissipation?
I think there is only one thing, John,
that will do it. ’’What is that?” said
the brother. “O,” said tlie prodigal,
“there is only just one thing that will
do it,” drawing his finger across his
throat. “I will, I will, before night
comes. I can’t hear it longer. Oh,
my brain!” Ho was the prodigal that
never returned from evil ways.
I will tell you of another. Two
young men jit England were down to
the sea-shore, expecting to embark.
I hey could not bear the restraints of
a kind father’s house. The fathe.l
wrote down to Mr. Griffin, of Ports
mouth, saying: “My twe sons are down
in your city'. I wish you would per
suade them to come back.” lie found
the two boys, and persuaded one to go
home. The other said: “I won’t go
home.” “Then.” said Mr. Griffin, “I
will get you a good place on a very
respectable ship.” lie said: ‘ I won’t
take it, I want to be a common sailor,
and that will, plague father most, and
what will break his heart will do me
most good.” Some years passed along,
and one day Mr. Griffin was seated in
his study, when word came: “There
is a man on ship-board in irons,
awaiting execution, who wants to see
you.” Air. Griffin did not recognize
him. “Don’t you remember me? I
am the young man you tried to per
suade not to go to sea.” “Oh, yes,”
said Air. Gridin. “I remember von.”
“Well,” said he, “I committed tho
crime of murder. lam going to die,
and I thought I would ask you to pray
for me before I died.” Air. Griffin,
thinking of the dear old folks at home,
and of the father, whose heart had long
ago broken over that wayward son,
said: “I will try to get you a pardon.”
He rushed about by day and by night,
from city to oity, to the proper authori
ties, and sure enough he got the pardon.
He moved the heart of the Judge by
the terrible story of parental suffering,
and he came in hot haste with the par
don, and as he was coming on the ship
he met the father, who had come down
from the country. He had found out
that his hoy was in trouble under a
disguised name, and there Air. Griffin
with the pardon met the father on the
dock. They went on board, and the
very moment that Air. Griffin handed
tho pardon to that wayward son, at
the same moment the father threw his
aims around the wayward boy’s neck
and kissed him, and the son confessed
his crime and his wanderings, and said:
“Father, forgive me if 1 have bioken
your heart.’, And the father said:
“I forgive you.” The chains were
knocked off, and the boy went home
free. To-day I come to you with a
pardon—glorious pardon of the Gospel.
I put it in your right hand, while at
the same moment the Lord God Al
mighty, your Father, breaks in upon
the darkness of your soul and throws
the arms of His compassion around
your neck, and says: “I forgive you
for all your wanderings,” and there is
joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who
will accept the Father’s embrace?
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