...than the proud Spartan mother upon her warrior-son, reaping the fruits of war, and may say—" This my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found." *° Some of you believe not, I mean yours is not the faith which influences the life, the heart, the...

...filled this young man's mother's heart when she heard the " good news from a far country/' that this her son was dead, and is alive again, — -was lost, and is found. From this let us learn to pray always and not faint ; let us learn to set our hearts on hardened ones,...

...have seen his dear mother throwing her arms around him, and saying, in the joy of her heart, " This my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found !" Subsequently this young man went to the north, to prepare to preach " the glorious gospel of the...

...get for answer from the glad Father's lips, as He points to regenerated and reconciled man, " This my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." To restore the lost, to revive the dead, is the design of the Gospel, is the end of the Lord. This...

...wandering boy when yet a great way off; falling on his neck ; embracing, kissing him, exclaiming " This, my son, was dead and is alive again, was lost, and is found;" — lost to the angels; for there is joy in heaven over one repenting sinner. Our noble faculties,...

...the father's house on that festival day, when he exclaimed, in the fulness of his heart, " This my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found ! " But there is nothing that more affectingly manifests the paternal relation of God to men, than...

...have seen his dear mother throwing her arms around him, and saying, in the joy of her heart, "This my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found!" Subsequently this young man went to the north, to prepare to preach "the glorious gospel of the blessed...

...aided him, who had no propitiation ; thieves and robbers. Because the Father hath said, Behold, my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found, and hath returned safe from the meshes of sin. Because be ordered the fatted calf to be killed, that...

...to murder her ; and she went amongst her neighbours showing them the letter, and saying, " This, my son, was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found." When I went home, before going to bed at night, I took the Bible, and as I knelt me do.>n on the stone...

...shewed in the grave ?" " Yes, it shall—it is—he is indeed loving and merciful. For behold, this my son was dead, and is alive again; was lost, and is found." And, indeed, this tarrying of help till hope is gone is every now and then a part of God's dealings...