Identifier: withchildrenonsu00stal (find matches)
Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nts to treat us as thoughtful beings, but we want tofollow our own inclination and our own desire. God treats us verykindly. He gives us every needed comfort and every daily blessing,and yet oftentimes people are discontented and dissatisfied withGod; they complain and think they have a hard time of it. Insteadof being faithful and true to God, they turn away from him. Theydesire to forsake God and serve Satan. They desire to acceptwhat Satan says, and so turn away from God and all that is good.But they have the same experience over and over again that thisyoung man had. He went out with fine clothes and plenty ofmoney, and with high hopes; but he returned home in rags, withouta penny in his pocket, disappointed, penitent and ashamed. But I must not forget to tell you, that when he had journeyedmany a week, toiling wearily over the long road that had separatedhim from his fathers house, at last he came near his old home. Ingoing away he had nearly broken his fathers heart. With sorrow
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Copyrighted, 1911, by Sylvanus Stall. The Returning Prodigal HUSKS. 73 he was bringing his aged father down to the grave. But his fatherstill loved his wayward boy, and expected him home. As he satwatching at the door looking over the hills, he saw the returningprodigal when he was yet a great way off. This loving and for-giving father had compassion upon his son, ran and fell upon hisneck and kissed him, and welcomed him back home again. Thewayward boys heart was all broken up by such kind treatment. Hefell upon his knees at his fathers feet and said to his father, Father,I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no moreworthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants. But the father called his servants and commanded them tobring the best robe and put it upon this boy who had given him somuch sorrow; to bring the ring and put it upon his finger; and thento kill the fatted calf, so that they might make a great feast, in orderthat all might be made very gla

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