...How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned — ." The promise of a future trial, the explicit avowal of relenting in his displeasure, with a view...

...last chance. " My father's servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy...

...You are much in the same state as the Prodigal, when he " came to him•' self" and said, " I will arise, and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." (Luke xv. 17 — 19.)...

...(Ps. cxix. 170.) Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. (Ps. li. 3.) 1 will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. (Luke, xv. 18, 19.) To...

...place there ; content to go back on any terms no more a sou— only as an hired servant ! — I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee ; and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy...

...conies over us, stronger and stronger, till at last the cry bursts from our hearts, our lips, "I will arise and go to my Father and say unto Him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called Thy son." And does the Father repulse...

...dispirited and forlorn ; all pitied and soothed him, but it never once occurred to him to say : " I will arise and go to my Father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." Only once did it even...

...over her whole heart, and it expended itself in the often heard, but little-regarded words, " I will arise and go to my Father, and say unto him — Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against Thee," and then a soothing sense of love and reconciliation softened the...

...taught it them by order of F. Christian ; and he caused a prayer to be said every day at noon : ' I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son/ which they continued to...

...him, O believe him, O believe him, Just now." HIS RESOLUTION. " I will arise," said the prodigal, " and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee !" He might well say so. I can detect in him no redeeming trait but...