...resemble that put into the mouth of the father of the prodigal son on his return to his home : This, my son, was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found. To the gifts which had heen sent him he seems to have paid little attention, nor to the honorable station...

...as in attitude of blessing — towards the pew in which sate Gilbert Arnold, continued, 'For this my son was dead, and is alive again : was lost, and is found.' " He tried to go on ; but it was plain that the over-strung chord had snapped. The crisis had come....

...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." Now by these two " servants " of the everlasting covenant, standing before God the Father, ready to...

...in a special individual manner in themselves, of that which is spoken of the prodigal son ; "This my son was DEAD and is ALIVE AGAIN, was lost and is found ;" and that if they arc true believers, in each of their cases personally, a brand has been plucked...

...contained the parable of the prodigal son, and as Alice listened to the exultant cry : "For this my son was dead and is alive again ; was lost, and is found," her husband saw the big tears gather and fall, and knew that they were tears of joy. For Cuthbert's...

...ourselves to Him, kissing us, and rejoicing, as God the mighty Forgiver can alone rejoice, that this His Son "was dead, and is alive again; was lost, and is found." What is it that we can now hold back ? We are invited, by the example of Christ's Cross, to offer up...

...clothed, and feasted ; yea, and adopted, and the one grand motto of the complete transaction is, " This my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost and is found," — found, to be lost again no more. This is, indeed, the jet, or edge, or joy, of his being " found."...

...always been filled. I need not enter into particulars. Enough to fay, in the Saviour's words, ' This my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found.' You, my friends, have waited long for your dinner. Let us continue the parable, and ' begin to be merry.'...

...Nor yet can I put in words the scene at the vicarage, and in the widow's cottage later on. " This, my son, was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found ! " Even Harold eagerly ransacked his wardrobe for clothes to fit poor John, who did not look very...

...arise and go to my Father.' Far off his Father sees him, and in triumphant joy receives him : ' This my son was dead, and is alive again; was lost, and is found.' It will be thus within eternity, till, in the fulness of charity, there shall be at last one flock...