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The Eminent Washington Divine's
Suoday Sermon.
Subject: “The Prodigal's Return.”
Tex» “I will arise and go to my father.’
Luke xv,, 18.
There is nothing like hunger to take the
faery out of a man. A hungry man oan
toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot,
80 much for lack of ammunition
of bread.
out of this youug man of the text, Storm
and exposure will wear out any man’s life in
time, but hunger makes quick work. The
mos: awful cry ever heard on earth
ery for bread, A traveler tells us that in
Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit
ns
time, It is called the carob.
the people, reduced to destitution, would eat
these carobs, but generally the carobs
beans spoken of h in the text
thrown only to the swine, and they erunched
them with avidity, But this young
man of my text ild not even get them
without stealing them. So one day, amid
the swine trouchs, he begins to soliloqu oe,
He says ‘“‘I'hese are no clothes for a rien
man's son to wear. This {8 no kind of
ness for a Jew to be enguged feeding
swine, I'll go home. I'l go home, I will
arise and go to my father,”
I know there are a great many people who
to throw a fascination, a
nwithstan
slo, about gin: bat, n
} n and George Sand h
a
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Pe were
grreat
of
busi-
in
ling ail that
ave sald ia
low, coatemptible
i ant fodder into
) ities that root
wonl of man iss very poor
it and women intended
ns and daushiers
an { when this young
homs it was a very »
and the only questi
low him. Satan pron
will serve him, but
with rags, and he pinehes
and wh !
after thema
to us f
1g Vv IY
war to
business
noi
Comes
uries and emo
him. Liar, down withthe
wages of sin is d Oh, th
{ the text was
“1 will
s {ime
al hh."
+ hy
“I don’
do vou
have
your
know
I know
to meet
that medi
am territly
eons to v
in bod
in soul,
pone i have
of ain
Ch, th
the go
and death by death passe
all men, fc ! sitoed.”’
you say, * 1 whlling to acknowledge t
but why sl « particular rescus
that you pt » the reason. ""Ex-
cept 8 man be born a he cannot ses the
kingdom God.” Fhis is the reason
“There is one name given under heaven
Among men whereby they may be saved,”
Then there are a thousand voices hers ready
to say: “Well, I am ready to accept this
help of the gospel. I would like
this diviae cure,
Ist ine sv that a mere whim, an undefined
longing, mmounis to nothing. You must
at,
¢
of
this youog mao of the text when he said, <I
wil arise an ' go to my father,”
me? How dol know if I go back I would
be received?” “Oh.” says some man, “you
don’t know where I have bees. You don't
know how far I have wanderss, You
wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew
all the Iniquities I have committed,”
dispatch? It is news!
bas found the lost,
Nor apgvis can their joy contain,
But kindle with cow fire,
The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike toe sounding lyre,
Whea Napoleon talked of going into Italy,
they said: ‘You can’t get there, If yun
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 10s in his stirrups, and,
waving his hand toward the mountains, he
said: “There shall be no Alps) That won
derful pass was sid out which has been the
wonderment of all the years since—the won.
derment of all engines 8, And you tell me
there are such mountains of sin between
‘our soul and God there Is no merey, Then
see Christ waving His hand toward the
mountains. I near Him say, “1 will come
overthe mouniains of thy sin snd the hills
of thine iniquity,” There snall be no Pyre-
Dees; there shall be no Alps,
Again, I notice that this resolution of the
it is news! Christ
young man of my text was founded in sor.
row a' his misbehavior. It was not mere
physical plight,
| maltreated his father. It {2 a sad thing after
have that enfld ungrateful,
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child,
{ That is Shakespeare,
i heaviness of his mother,” That is the Bible
| Well, my friends, have not some of us been
{ eruel prodiguls? Have we not maltreated our
{ Father? And sueh a Father! Thres times a
| day has He fed thee, He has poured sunlight
{ into thy day, and at night kindled up all the
i #troet lamps of heaven, With what varieties
“ons. Whose ave watches thee? Whos hand
defends thee? Whose heart sympathizes with
| thee? Who gave you vour ~hildren? Who is
guarding your loved ones departed? Buch a
| Father! Bo loving, so kind, If He had been
# stranger, if He had forsaken us, if He had
flagellated us, {f He had pounded us and
| turned us out of doors on the commons, ft
{ would pot have been wonderfale—our
treatment of Him-—buat He is « Father, &
| loving, so kind, and yet how many of us {«
our wanderings have never apo'ogized! |
we say anything that hurts our frisnd’s fesl.
| ings, if we do auvthing that hurts the
ings of those in whom we are Interested,
how quiskly we apologize!
wait until we got pen nnd paper to write a
| letter of apology. How easy is it for any one
who is intelligent, righ: hearted, to write an
| Apology or make an ap y! We apologize
for wrongs done to on yw, but some of
us perhaps have ten thousand
times ten thousand wrongs against God and
never apologized,
I remark still further that this
of the text was foun
sliekneas, [I do
young man, how
hal
but there is methin ab
of my text ma
ho ie
NOMmes) .
“0
mitted
resolution
ded in a feeling of homes
not ww long this
mat MINS, how many
' his futl
“rs
the
years, h
ut
think
house,
reading
Was
tht feelin
times
or his father
he thought «
“Now perhag
" We read
nothing
nothing about
she was
broken t
heart
he had wx
that
AvVimi
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ne into
ha sryiel ’
he + $0
passing
snd th
ind the
and the father
rdered the
But
and arrived in 3
mourning arrived, | nocke {
he father was ov ¥ 4 rr
vor)
friends,
Havev
1 waded fron
When
rags «
the
the
her
AS youd 8
ie hs XK?
coma in ths
ne robe in the
1 belisve the latter
to-day, He iz waitin
Jat I remark the
lation was,
The eo
his fath
and ninety-nit
hat our
WORULe We make them | ne
If 1 resol & be vie 8 Christian fioxt
, that amon hing at all, If] re
day to pecoms a
.
disian
sive at the sere
Christian, that an its ton
I rescive after [
neart to God, that &
I'he only kind of reso
anything is the resciut
iy put into execution,
here is a man who had the typhoid fever,
He anid: “Oh, if I could get over this tortie
bie distress, if this fever should deonrt, {1 1
could be restored to healt bh, I would ali the
rest of my life serve God” The lever de.
| parte]. He got well enough to walk around
i the block. He got well snough to go over
to business, He is well to-day —as well as he
ever was, Wherv is the broken vow’ There
thinz at a
{ to the year 1896, by that time I will have my
{ business matters all arranged, and 1 wiil
have time to attend to religion, and I will be
a good, thorough, consecrated Christian.’
I'he your 1506 has come,
| Where is your brokem vow? “Oh ™
i some man, “I'll attend to that
get my character fixed up:
i wet over my evil habits, aM now give
en to strong drink.” Or, says the man, “|
am given to uncleanliness.”” Or, says the
man, “I am given to dishonesty, When i
(got over my present habits, then I'libe a
| thorough Christian.” My brother, you will
set worse and worse until Christ takes you
in hand, “Not the righteous, sinners Jesus
came to esil.” Oh, but you say, “I agree
with you in all that, but I must put it off a
littie jouger.” you know there were
| many who came just as near as you are to
thes kingdom of God and never entered it? |
was ut Essthamp on, and I went into the
cemetory to look around, and in that came
tory thers are twelve graves side by side
the graves of sailors. This erew, some years
says
when 1
when I ean
Amagansett, about three miles away, My
brother, then preaching at Easthampton, bad
been at the burial, These men of the crew
eames very near being saved. The Jeopie
from saw the vessel and they
shot rockets and they sent from the
shore, and these poor fellows got into the
boat and they pulled mightily for the shore,
but just before they got to th- shore the rope
snapped and the boat capsized, and they
were lost, their bodies afterward washed up-
on the beach, Oh, what a solewn day it was
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theses twelve men lay at the foot of the pm
pit, and he read over them the funernl ser.
vice, They came very near shore——ayithin
shonting distance of the shore--yet did not
arrive on solid land, There are some men
who come almost to the shore of God's merey,
but not quite, not quite, To be almost saved
is to he lost,
I will tell you of two prodiguls—the ons
that got back and the other that did not get
back, In Richmond thers {8 a very prosper
ous an! beautiful home in many respects, A
wing man wandered off from that home,
I» wandered vary far into sin, They heard
# fer, but he wis always on the
Ha would not go home, At
the door of that beautiful home night
thers was a grew! oatery, The man
of the house ran down to open the
matter, It was midnight,
The rest of the family were asleep, There
were the wife and ehildron prodigal
young man, The fact was he had come home
nnd driven them out, He sald: “Out of this
housd' Away with ehlidren! I will
dnsh their brains ont! Oat into tas storm!”
The mother gathered them up and fle Tae
Young man
went out to find this
and he came to
where he was and saw the voune man wan-
dering up and down in front of the planes
wheres he had been staying, and the young
man who had kept his integrity said to the
older “Hore, what does all tiis
mean al 18 he matter with Why
in this way?" pid
“Who
wrong trues,
one
voung
daar to
f
of this
these
who had staid at home,
brother
do you take ma to ba?"
my brother,” va, I ane I a
ything of my wife and chil.
Are they dead? [drove them out last
I um a brute,
you think there is any heip for ¢
think I will evar get
He sald, “John,
this." The
his throat an
not,
in the storm,
aver this |
tions"
t will stop
thes
1 have been
pursue his
Kissed
u the sar.
frees jaa
rime has hae
sasay you have committed a erime
pod, against your own » Bn ust
low man, against your far
the day of judgment, against the
whatevrsr your erime
full par
ton, and t
take that pardon ¥
throws
against
rose of Christ
been, here is pardon,
¥ ¥ nent you
Hen y Father His
about you and says: “My son, I tors
It is all right, You are as 1
w as if you hai nev fied
s aart? 5 3
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Park Lose: the
Its Herd,
The National Zoolag eal
Oldest Bisaa
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we of Wan
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six!
ing been £1 fed ins insporale i
sions, The “Lo
fio i# one of the Laest in
at the kiting
will be bard to re
brit Mme f was Killed was one of the largest
and oldest ia the serd, and for a tithe was
the tyrant and monareh of all the others at
the “Zoo.” A year Or two ago be had a very
desperate fight with a younger bull, and
sinew that tine has been Kept away from the
rest of the berd and conflped in a pea in
which there was al<o a young bull, who ap-
parently was eatireiy peaceful, Oa the day
of the fight the oid teliow amused himself by
teasing the younger bali and pokiag at nim
as they walked around the pea, The young
bulidid not like this and began to show fight,
A dozen times the bewsts rushed at each
other and eame together with shoeks that
startled the other animals and brought to the
enciosure all the keepers, who endeavored to
The
fits oe
the 00
great reg in felt
them, as
sufficientiy to prevent the animals from es-
The buffaloes fought until both of
then were so nearly exhausted that they
could hardly stand. Then the young one
was driven away and the oid ons enticed in-
to the buffalo house, whers the surgeon in
charge of the “Zoo" and his assistants labored
to save his jife The iast blow that he had
received from the young buffalo, however,
had doue its work, and the animal Hved but
a little time after the fight was over. The
post mortem showed that he was frightfuilly
gored and nearly all the bones of his body
broken, It is mater of surprise to the sur-
geons that he stood up and fought as long as
he did. ‘Lhe young buffalo was not seriously
injured,
Greater New York's Population,
Dr. Roger 8. Tracy, Register of Vital
Statistics, bas made the following estimate
of the population of the Greater New York,
from the weekly reports of the of
Health of New York and Brooklyn, and from
the Federal census of the Jopdistian of Long
Island City, Newiown, Flushing, Ja vaiea,
Richmond Couuty and the part of Hemp
stead that is ascexed: Total population,
3,165,059; population of New York, 1,916,668;
Brookiy. an. Ki County, 1,106,000;
Island City, 42,578; Newtown, 24,067; Flush«
J 17,785; Coun
potend
One Disadvantage of Whiskers.
There was a time when Senator Da.
con, of Georgia, wore an ornate and
lavigh hirsute adornment, and pletures
tnken at the time he was president of
the Georgian Senate so represent him
Naw he contents himself with a simple
mustache. How he happened to shear
beard was told by the Senator him
self recently
ii
“It was,” he began, “when the roller
broke out and invaded
the families in the Bouth It
struck Macon, and somehow it found a
viotim in Everybody
to the skating rink, and consequently 1
went, 1 soon
skating craze
best
ie,
Wis
aing
ncequired a remarkable
of grace gliding
aver the floor to the | ulsation of exhil
and 3 mpany
by ladie
were somewhat distrustful of th
sk0L 1 l
il
as the
degree in dre
amy
"Hiv
Miy
Ccinting waltz strains
demand who
rr oOwad
I never forget, 1
guardian angel one ever
of a lady whose main support |
her feeble efforts to pi
with the and
tremulously gliding
the «
skates approached us from t
floor
nmong rowd, when
direction. 1 saw at
nd lost
rothing but
} Yifis
IR Compu
blind
ian bh
vidence wis
gtroyed
as
Na
Wa
ngersus Than Cuns
Cleveland Moffett, ww!
still lower TORY the
1 nade lighter. In high-pros« |
sure guns, the “factor of safety” is of
ten as grea. as twenty, which means |
that the guns are made twenty times 1s |
tirong as ig theoretically nevessary or
the strain they must bear. In ordinary
yong the “factor of safety” is twelve,
in boilers it is about six, in bridges it is
vanally five, and in almost every con
struction or machine it is at least four,
tuese wide margins of extra strength
iwing considered necessary ag an offset
to errors in theoretical computations,
er defects in construction and mater.ai
as
1
are
The Proper Food for Thin and Stout.
Tall, thin persons, if they take suf.
cient exercise to digest it, should eal
starchy foods—plenty of bread and
corcala-sweet frujts, cream, all moa‘s
but pork and veal, and drink an abun.
dence of milk and pure water. Fleshy
jpoople must avoid all breads and
gralne, sweet foods, pastries, cakes,
ete, cream and milk, and confine their
diet to rare beef, well-cooked mutton,
joultry, fish, a few green vegetables,
and sour fruits, drinking only sufficient
water to aid digestion. Lettuce, celery,
and watercress, though possessing ¥'¢-
tle nutriment, have great dietetic and
ebemical value, and their free use 8
commended to all. They are specially
portant in the diet of persons en-
puged in sedentary occupations, and
these should also eat an abundance of
fruit. Almost all kinds are of value to
them, but aranges, apples, grape fra't,
Gigs and dates are most important
The Campal tn of Friedland, |
The campaign of Friedland
either less geulus or than
other of Napoleon's victories, accord AN INTERESTING
ing to the standpoint from which it is | YOUNG LADIES’ COLLEGE
judged, If he is to be regarded through
out its duration merely as a il
then his conduct shows compn
Hitthe ability He on
where he did not expect a
though he had ni
nnd
his
that
less,
shows
mare any
Hace Between the
came
The race
dle ti
execute an ndmirable
trifling
me
jogs wns compare with | ove tdies BI are
of
Friedland
affair,
his oppone:
was fa
incomplete It
abandon Hellsberg, but it
annihilate Lim or
fentury
commonpi
compelled
foe 10
ot necessarily
the war
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