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Parable of the
Two Sons
Sunday School LejsonlorAug.12,1906
Specially Prepared for This Paper.
LESSON TEXT.—Luke 15:11-32. Mem-
ory verses. 17. 18.
GOLDEN TEXT.—“Return unto me,
end I will return unto you, saitli the
Lord."—Mai. 3:7.
TIME.—January, A. D. 30, probably not
long after last lesson.
rLACE.—Somewhere in Perea, beyond
Jordan.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. — God s
expressed desire for the salvation of sin-
ners: Ex. 34:5, 7; Num. 14:18-20; Dent.
5:29; 32:29; Nell. 9:17, 28-31; Job 33:29, 30;
Psa. 81:13; 103:3. 8, 10-13; 130:4. 7, 8. Isa.
1:18; 48:18; Jer. 3:12, 22; 31:20 , 34 , 37 ; 33.S;
Lam. 3:22, 23; llosea 11:8, 9; 14:1-8; Mic.
11:1-8; 7:18, 19. Matt. 5:45; 11:28-30 ; 23:37-39;
Luke 14:17; 19:42: John 3:10, Rom. 5:S; Eph.
1:8, 7; Rev. 3:20; 22:17.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
V. 11. "He.” Jesus. “A certain man
had two sons.” The father here rep-
resents God. All men are his chil-
dren.
V. 12. "The portion of goods that
falleth to me." This, according to law,
would be one-third of the father's es-
tate.
V. Id. "Gathered all together.” He ex-
changed all his property for jewels or
money, which could be easily carried.
"Not many days after . . . took a
journey.” To some city—Corinth, Al-
exandria or Rome. "Wasted . . . riot-
ous living.” Spent all lie had In seek-
ing pleasure. The very abundance of
God’s gifts leads many to forget the
Giver and wander off to “the far
country of forgetfulness of God.”
V. 14. “Spent all." This did not take
long. “A mighty famine.” A season
when crops failed and great scarcity
of foo l ensued. "Began to be in want."
He now wanted for friends, as well as
for food and shelter
V. in. “Joined himself to a citizen."
He hired himself out to one of the in-
habitants of that "far country.”
V. 10. "No man gave unto him.” No
one gave him proper food, hence he
craved even the pods which the swine
ate.
V. 17. "Came to himself.” He had
not hitherto been true to himself. Sin
is maoness. The sinner is much like
an insane man.
V. 18. "1 will arise and go.” Go is
the important word. And the youth
added to his words, in thought at least,
"to-day.” Too many resolve to amend,
and do right, to-morrow. "Father, 1
have sinned.” This young man was
right in resolving to confess his sin,
rather than tell of his misery. "Against
Heaven ” Against the God of Heaven.
Sin injures ourselves and others, hut
it is most bitterly to be regretted be-
cause r is directed against God,against
boundless love.
V. 20 “Came to bis father.” Came
toward his father. “Was a great way
off. ’ He apparently halted when he
came in sight of home, as if he had
not courage to proceed. “His father
saw him.” The father had been anx-
iously looking for his son's return, and
spied him while he was still at a great
distance. Though the wanderer from
God does not know it, it is the Father's
love which reaches out to him and
draws him to take the first step toward
return.
V. 21. “The son said,” etc. He made
his confession. We see that the fa-
ther’s loving welcome gave his heart
courage to say anew: “Father.” (See
Gal. 4: ti, 7.)
V. 22. "The best robe." A rich gar-
ment kept in eastern households for
honored guests. "A ring.” This should
be worn only by a freeman. Shoes.
These distinguished him from serv-
ants, who wore no shoes.
V. 2o. “The fatted calf.” One kept
in the stall to be used on some joy-
ous occasion. “To be merry.” See v.
25. On the sinner's conversion there
Is joy in the Father’s heart, joy
throughout Heaven and among the
earthly children of God, and joy in the
heart of the returned prodigal.
V. 24. “Was dead." Scripture reit-
erates the fact that one who Is in sin
Is dead. "Lost . . . found.” Anothev
figure expressive of the sinner’s state.
V. 25. "In the field.” Attending to
his duties as overseer of the place.
This elder son of the parable repre-
sents the Pharisees of Jesus' day and
all formal religionists of our day, both
in the coldness of his heart and his
selfishness of temper.
V. 26, 27. "Called one of the serv-
ants." A loving, trustful son would
have hastened in to join in the festiv-
ities, feeling sure that whatever was
going on under the father’s eye was
right.
V. 28. “He was angry." Not a pass-
ing passion, but deep-seated wrath
filled his heart.
Vs. 29, 30. “Do 1 serve thee.” His
very words indicated that he had
wrought with the spirit of a slave,
not a son. “Never gavesl me a kid
. with my friends.” It is by no
means probable lie had ever wanted
to give a social feast. He was not
the kind of man to have friends, or
care lor social pleasures.
V. 31. "Son.” A more tender word
in the original; It might be rendered
"my dear son.” “All ... is thine. It
would have been unseemly for me to
make you a feast when all the prop-
erty is your own. for you to do with
as you please.
Practical Points.
V. 11. We have been endowed with
privileges and possibilities belonging
to God himself.—Gen. 1:27.
V. 12. Not all his gifts can eompen
sate to a soul for the loss of God him-
self.—Luke 12:15.
V. 72. Self-will leads men far from
God.—Eph. 2:12.
V. 15- Who dallies with sin soon
finds himself inseparably bound to it.
—Rom. 6:17.
V. 16. One may look in vain for
compassion from his companions in
sin.—Prov. 12:10.
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LET LIQUOR ALONE.
SHE IS A FROSTY WOMAN.
Mis. Hamilton, of Brattleboro, the
Only Female Ice Dealer in the
State of Vermont.
Brattleboro, Vt.—Mrs. Carrie L.
Hamilton, of this city, is the busiest
woman in Vermont and has made such
a success of commercial enterprises
that business men have honored her
with a position of trust and responsi-
bility.
She was elected secretary of the Ver-
mont ice Dealers’ association at its
latest meeting and is the only woman
ice dealer in tHe state. Not only does
she own and manage a large ice in-
dustry, but she has extensive lumber
interests. She is also connected in an
official as well as social way with sev-
eral fraternal organizations, l-ast win-
ter her ice concern harvested more ice
than any other in Vermont.
Indian Superstition.
The temple elephant in southern Ir
dia is the object of great respect, for
physical contact with him is supposed
to do more good to the human body
than the best medicine. Adult men
and women warily feel his legs with
their fingertips and press them rev-
erently to their eyes; and ailiitg chil-
dren are. for a small consideration,
carried on his back the distance of a
few strides, that they may he cured.
Newspaper Titles.
Little Boy—Pop, what’s the differ-
ence between an editor-in-chief and
a managing editor?
Pop—an old reporter—The editor-
in-chief is the man who attends ban
quets and gets all the glory; the man
aging editor is the man who does all
the work.—N. Y. Sun.
'I.et liquor alone and 'twill never hurt
you,”
So some people argue nml think it is true.
“Lot liquor alone," that Is all very well.
But whom it will hurt is a thing you
can’t tell.
It may not hurt you, but It may harm
another,
A husband, a son or a sister or brother;
Your sweetheart, your lover, your dear
little child.
By whose fun and frolic your hours are
beguiled.
It may hurt a relative, neighbor or
friend.
On whose love and counsels you long did
depend.
It may touch some life that Is dear to
your own.
And bring you such sorrow as ne'er you
have known;
And then, oh, how bitter your sad cry
would be,
“I never touched liquor, but liquor
touched me."
Fur rum’s no respecter of persons, in-
deed, .
Requests and petitions it never will heed.
It says: “I’ve a right in this land ol
the free.
Tlie voters have licensed me, now let me
bP.” ,
And thus the rum traffic goes on In our
land
And works desolation on every hand.
At morn or at noon, or by day or l>>
night,
You never know when you are safe from
its blight.
It fills the police courts, expense doth in-
volve,
Makes criminal cases for jurists doth to
solve; . .....
It causes more fires, more murder and |
crime.
Than you would be willing to read at one
time.
It causes sari accidents on land ami s* a,
AY recks trains and sinks vessels in hope-
loss debris,
Makes many homes hovels; and oh, Us
a shame, , , ,
ITow innocent suffer when they re not to
blame. , _ _
The drunkard’s wife, shivering, no lire,
no wood.
Her poor little ones who arc crying for
An.l 'many a mother in sorrow doth
swoon ,
At seeing her boy brought home drunk
from a saloon.
One half of the misery ne'er can we
know ...
That’s caused by vile liquor, our tenible
foe. , , .
“Let liquor alone,” oh. if men only would.
Then pledge all the youth, teach them
how to be good.
And leach them to so hate this beverage
of sin , ...
That touching and tasting it no or they
begin.
Yes, let tile pledge signing speed on In
its might
And thus liolp to hasten the dawning or
right;
And let us each one pledge our hand and
our heart,
For in tills great contest we eaeli may
have part.
As drinking's concerned, we'll let liquor
alone,
But we will not grant it our land tor a
throne.
So let us tight on and be never east down
Till (-pul Prohibition our labors shall
crown.
Nettie A. Perham, in National Advo-
cate.
HOW TO KEEP COOL.
Ice Water Really Makes One Warmer
—Best Drink Water Just Chilled
with Lime Juice Added.
•’Nothing could be worse than the
quantity of ice water which people
drink in the hope of cooling off their
temperature. Cold water only chills
the stomach,” says a southern woman
in the New York World. “The reac-
tion makes one warmer. The best
drink for the summer is plain cold
water, not chilled, but just cold. I
drink a great deal of this, but never
forget to add to each glassful a little
lime juice. This gives it the refresh-
ing tart taste and also counteracts
the effects of bad drinking water.
“When it gets really hot, there are
a few simple ways of cooling off the
blood which many people know, but
hardly anyone practices. 1 keep cool
by using all these little resources, and
when it is very enervating, and 1
have work to do, 1 don’t hesitate to go
about with wet. cotton behind my
ears. A piece of cotton dipped in cold
water and placed behind the ears so
that it touches the big artery, will
cool one off wonderfully. A drop or
two of ammonia may he added to the
1 water in which the cotton is im-
mersed, and will make one feel deli-
ciously refreshed. When the nights
are very hot and breathless, the hot
water hag filled with cold water and
placed at the back of the neck will
let the cold water run over one's
getfulness.
“Of course we southern women
wear our fischus and low collars in
the house, and you have no idea how
we dislike even the shirt waist, with
its dimity or lace collar band, not so
much for the heat of the material ns
for the stricture around the throat.
“If it is uncomfortably hot a cold
compress around the neck is deli-
cious, and everyone knows that to
let the cold water run over one's
wrists for any length of time will
rool off the warmest individual, and
is restful and soothing besides.
“Where it is not possible to take
two or more dips during the day, the
feet at. least should have their prop-
er amount of care and ventilation
night and morning. The thinnest
kind of straw slippers or mules are
to he hail now for little or nothing,
and when possible in the privacy of
one's own room stockings should be
discarded and the feet allowed a cer-
tain amount of freedom after being
refreshed by a foot bath."
The Speaker’s Eye.
Knicker— It is very hard to catch
the speaker's eye.
Henpekt—In the case of my wife I
find it Hard not to.—N. Y. Sun.
Great men and comets leave behind
them a trail of light in which a
whole host, of nonentities can disport
themselves.—Carmen Sylva (Queeu
Elizabeth of Roumania)
The Bottomless Pit of Rum.
A speaker told us of his throwing
a. great stone down “The Bottomless
pit," in Ltiray Cavern, writes Mar-
garet Meredith. For some time he
could hear it strike the sides as it,
bounded back and torth; then noth-
ing more was heard, hut one knew
that it was still going down. Thus
it is with drink: we hear of the mis-
eries of a drunkard’s children, but
we cannot estimate the bitter results
going on. on. for grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, as they pursue
the courses natural to a family thot
oughly started out in pauperism, drink
and degradation.
Drink Their Undoing.
"About a quarter of the men who
are stripped and stranded and show up
here are college men,’ says the secre-
tary of the Bowery branch of the
Nerv York Y M. C. A The great
majority of those educated men who
become moral wrecks, he says, owe
their downfall to drink.
Herring Salad.
Herring salad may make a pleasant
change as a supper dislt on a warm
day. Heat through by boiling, or in
the oven, three smoked herrings.
Then tear off the heads and pull the
skin away; split, take out the back-
bone and rut. up into small bits, or to
shred them is better. Put in a salad
bowl, add one small chopped onion,
two hard-boiled eggs, chopped, and one
boiled potato; cut fine with a tea-
spoonful of chopped parsley; season
with a teaspoonful of salt, one of pep-
per, three tablespoonfuls of vinegar
and two of oil; mix well, and if you
have it, decorate with a boiled beet.
About Corn Meal.
To prevent corn cakes and bread
from having a raw taste, I mix the
meal with ntilk a few hours before
baking the bread. When ready to
bake it, add the salt., egg, a spoonful
of flour and last of all the soda, or if
t eet milk be used, add baking pow-
ucr. Mush, to be good, must be boiled
a long time. Having neither time nor
inclination to stand by the jnush pot,
1 boil the mush thoroughly, being care-
ful not to make it too thick, then
place closely covered in the oven,
whe; 3 it is kept at boiling heat for
several hours.
Breakfast Chocolate.
Take six tablespoonfuls scraped
chocolate, or three of chocolate and
three of cocoa, dissolve in a quart of
boiling water, rich milk, let scald, and
serve hot. This is enough for six per-
sons.
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