NEW VERSION OF THE PARABLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 349

NEW VERSION OF THE PARABLE.

SOUTHERN PREACHER REHEARSES THE ADVENTURES OF THE PRODIGAL SON. A PREACHER, a simple old countryman preaching on the subject of the prodigal son, told the story in this wise:— ‘ I am going to take this text, my brethren, because it is just as applicable now as it was in the old days gone by. Here to-day, as of yore, the prodigal, anxious to see the world and enjoy himself, goes to his old father, who has loved him for many, many years, and asks him that he be given his portion that lie has been saving for many, many years. And the old father who has loved him for many, many years, gives him a portion, and he goes away and spends it in riotous living. He has a ‘ Delmonico at Six ’ time of it, mv brethren, and that prodigal was glad enough to eat with the swine he herded. Then the prodigal repents, as many’ of us are apt to do on an empty stomach, and lie went back to the old home, where he had lived for many, many years. And he saw the blue smoke curling out of the chimney, as it had done for many, many years, and his old father, who had loved him for many, many years. And he fell upon his father’s shoulder and wept and begged to be taken back to his heart. Then the father loved him again, as he had done for many, manyyears, and went out and killed the fatted calf that hail been on the old farm for many, many years.