Identifier: withchildrenonsu00stal (find matches)
Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e also. He soon found himself penniless, friendless and hun-gered. He had to go out and seek for work. Perhaps he hadbeen too much indulged at home. He had never learned a trade,and possibly had never learned to do work of any kind, and sothere was nothing for him to do but to accept the humblest andmeanest kind of labor. He was a Jew, and for a Jew to tend swineor hogs was one of the meanest things in all the world. And yethe was willing because of his poverty and his want, to do even thismost degrading service. This boy who wanted to be his ownmaster, now became the most menial of slaves, even to the tendingof swine. He wanted gay company, but he had only pigs for hiscompanions. He wanted wine and feasting, but now no one evenoffered him husks to eat. He left his home to seek happiness, buthe found only misery. These husks which I showed you, which some boys callJohnny bread, are exactly what this wayward, disappointed,disheartened, hungry boy was given to feed to the swine which he
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The Disappointed, Hungry Prodigal Tending Swine. 69 70 HUSKS. was hired to tend. He was so hungry that he would have beenglad to eat these husks with the pigs, but no one gave him any to eat. When this wayward boy was thus brought down to povertyand hunger in that far-off country, while he was tending the swine,he began to think. If he had only stopped to think before he lefthis home, he would never have started away. He would surelyhave known that he was better off at home than anywhere else.But now that misery and want had come to him, we are told thathe came to himself. That is, he came to his senses. It was sen-timent which led him from his home. It was sense that broughthim back. The trouble with boys and girls, and with older peopletoo, is that they do not stop to think. They follow their fanciesand sentiments, and they are led astray in this way. God wants us to stop and think, and He says, Come, let usreason together. God does not ask any unreasonable thing of us.He simply wan

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