...father saw him, and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him. Luke 15, 20. This my son was dead, and is alive again : — was LOST — and is FOUND ! ! HERE is a fulness of encouragement for every poor wandering outcast sinner to return to his Father...

...And with what end, my brethren? Our Saviour's words best make known the heavenly estimate : " This my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found !" Mankind has valued, and justly valued, those minds, which have been most inquisitive about the secret...

...envying his entertainment, let us rather break forth into songs of joy and gladness, saying, " This my son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." This is the benevolence of the spirits in heaven ; for they tune their harps afresh when a sinner is...

...son William, aged 1 1 years. When I took him by the hand, I repeated the following passage, " This my son was dead and is alive again ; was lost and is found." July 5th. Attended the early prayer meeting. I have just heard that my beloved ministering brother...

...his once lost but now recovered child ! Permit me to mingle my tears of joy with yours ; the prodigal son " was dead, and is alive again, was lost and is found." It is meet that we should rejoice and give thanks over the deliverance and redemption of lost souls....

...affection, and love forgetting all the misconduct of the past rejoices, as it tenderly exclaims, "this my son was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found." It is the peculiarity and glory of the christian scheme, that in it all is love. When men were rebellious...

...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...

...delayed. [DEATH. bring hither the fatted calf and kill it ; let us ' eat and be merry, for 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...

...to the prophet, and then retires to pour forth her praises and thanksgivings to God, that this her son " was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." And here, brethren, we might conclude our observations, but there was an inquiry, which we would not...

...your conversion to God, and consequent holiness, "It is meet that we should make merry : for this our son was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found." Brothers, who had long since disowned you, as far as they could do it, may yet restore to you their...