...prodigal son over again when they embrace each other, and the father says: "Rejoice with me, for this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found." I have forgotten the name of the father, I have forgotten the name of his son; but I have not forgotten...

...he now indeed deeply feels was due to his child. One grand soluce, however, still remains : " Thu my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." " Vale, vale, at non in etemvm." The Rev. Joshu* Mann, on the 31>t of He observed, " What preOMU pnmun...

...a returning1 prodigal ; that both your earthly and heavenly Father may rejoice, and say, " This our son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost and is found." (Luke xv. 32.) I pray you read the whole chapter. Sir, I remain an earnest desircr of your conversion...

...is yet a great way off, will run and fall upon his neck and kiss him ; saying as he goes, " This my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." Such, my young friends, is the nature of that love which your parents have for you ; and, 5. Which...

...singing." He will at once bless you, and will say, with regard to every sincere penitent, " This, my son, was dead, and is alive again; — was lost, and is found. Dwelling on the tears of the Lord Jesus, in an hour of bereavement, the following lines were penned...

...his feet; and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and be merry ; for this my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." " Bring hither the best robe." The spotless robe of innocence was once our covering, and our glory....

...on his feet ; and bring hither the fatted calF, and kill it ; let us eat and be merry i f°r this my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." The design of Christ was to represent his heavenly Father in that parable : and to wounded spirits...

...choir with one consent strike sweetly in ; for thus goes the round at heaven's table, "For this my son was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found," Luke xv. 22, 21, 32. I need not farther explain the parable : God is the Father, Christ is the cheer,...

...his feet ; and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, " and let us eat and be merry. For this my son was " dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found. " And they began to be merry." Here let all sinners (and sinners we all are) behold the loving kindness...

...yet return to bis earthly and to his heavenly Father's house, like him of whom it is said, " This my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found." Let parents then, instead of giving way to desponding thoughts, turn their eyes and their prayers to...