The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-20
BY Rev.
Frank l..
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sonshp asserted for us we're an idle dream and solid reality
If really and daughters of God then we surely
should live higher plane and nober atmosphere thah
we ordinarily occupy
The Prodiga Son went from his fathers house and
down the inclined plane that leads perdon and Hades
because he forgot his fathers love and goodness and his o"
great inheritance.
He thought he knew how best live "the life that now is
he demanded his pamony and from the home OF
his youth to be his master and to do as he pleased
But the young msook the meaning and the value OF
his liberty and his opportunity His direct his
life took effect enla cement and ennobement OF
mind and heart but in lowering Of his manhood and debase
of his powers He Went away into far country and there
wasted his substance with rotous living" --.
What picture of human nature There men, young
and DID, who when they find themselves a far country are
ready to do things they would home among
their friends and neighbors
Is morality of locality? Does geography decide
ethical obligations Does distance deaen consc fence?
But when the Prodgal Son chad spent all" famine over
took him. The gaun wolf of snared his heels. Then
the secondent and secentered young discovered the
stern and the sober realities of life From living like prince
reduced to living like pauper He became swlneherd
He would fan have filled his belly with the husks that the swine
did eat: and no gave unto him"
Want and misery did their ministry of redemption and
when he to himself he went straight back to his father
house and restored favor having suffered much and hav
ing discovered the meaning of the life that is
What pity that poor human find its way out of
deuon and dreams to reality and sanity through the swams OF
senasm and the treacherou qcksand of ignorance and sin
However it useless to speculate about Utopia like
Aphonso of CASTLE mpousy hint that had been pres
the council of the gods when the world planned
could have improved the scheme of creation.
We accept conditions they and learn to make
the OF "the life that is troubling ourselves
continually with what might have BEEN what may be- but
alert and vigorous in high and joyful of today
The story of the Prodga Son suggests the highest and
deepest questions of ethics and theology, of conduct and
gon We hint thought only which needs special empha
in this twentieth century when many young and young
forgetting the higher law and the divine ideal and
living only for self Tie Thought set forth in
the sentence when he himself"
In every soul there higher and lower arustc and
egolStc self Those who look upon the life that Isl
merely opportunity for material and pleasure and
buO fOf thottb
But those who have themselves and have discov-
cred the world of thought and the world of righteousness
and the world of beauty under stand that years and
mess here to be interpreted in larger than those
commonly used the market afternoon teas Saloons
the club the thought of eXpounder of theo
ogy.
The life that is awake fact that
and daughters of the living Godthat the
cepted time, the hour of infinite vaue and that if blind
and deaf losing opportunities that but
once.
the youth of America the glory and meaning te
life that isl To persuade them give the strength
courage OF their manhood and the grace beauty their
manhood the of God and the redemption of humanity
The far country the riotous living the wasted substance
the mighty fame the swneherd hungry for hssare all
nal symbols of the life of manand the only relief the
of the picture the light that shines through words
HE came himself"
In the life living able to say 81 have
myself? conscious of my divine origin and duty
and destiny?"
That is the supreme word