Luke 15:11-32 And he said, A certain man had two sons:… Vice-Chancellor Blake, of Toronto, in an address at the Mildmay Conference, June 21, 1882, said: — A young man came to our city some six or seven years ago, the son of a clergyman. He had been a ne'er-do-weel, and had been sent, as so many are sent, abroad, because you can do nothing with them here. He was taken up by the Association; one of the members took him, and kept him at his house for six months. To-day that young man stands as the head of a principal undertaking in our Dominion. I don't wonder that his mother wrote a letter from Italy, where she was living, to say that if the broad Atlantic did not separate us, she would come to thank us for what our Association had done for her son. Another instance. A young man went to the Southern States, a distance of two thousand miles from our city, and the secretary of our Association wrote and said, "You will find so-and-so in your city; look him up, and see if anything can be done for him." He was so low down that, although the son of wealthy parents, he was found in one of the fish-markets cleaning fish. "Young man," said the delegate who found him, "you have got pretty near to the husks." "Yes," said he, "I have; it was painted very bright as I entered, but I find it a very dark and miserable place where I have got to." "Do you want to leave it?" "I do." "Are you determined to make a struggle? Yes. "Then come to my warehouse, and I will give you a place. I will expect you at my Bible-meeting every afternoon, and you will come and take a seat in my pew at church." "I will," he said. At our great Sunday-school Convention last year in the city, where we had delegates by the hundred, that young man came as one of the delegates sent up from that town in the United States. Parallel Verses KJV: And he said, A certain man had two sons: |
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