The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens & Simon Dewey

Author:Charles Dickens & Simon Dewey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2018-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

“There was once a Man,” he told them, “who had two sons: and the younger of them said one day, ‘Father, give me my share of your riches now, and let me do with it what I please?’ The father granting his request, he travelled away with his money into a distant country, and soon spent it in riotous living.

“When he had spent all, there came a time, through all that country, of great public distress and famine, when there was no bread, and when the corn, and the grass, and all the things that grow in the ground were all dried up and blighted. The Prodigal Son fell into such distress and hunger, that he hired himself out as a servant to feed swine in the fields. And he would have been glad to eat, even the poor coarse husks that the swine were fed with, but his Master gave him none. In this distress, he said to himself ‘How many of my father’s servants have bread enough, and to spare, while I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father! I have sinned against Heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called Thy Son!’

“And so he travelled back again, in great pain and sorrow and difficulty, to his father’s house. When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and knew him in the midst of all his rags and misery, and ran towards him, and wept, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him. And he told his servants to clothe this poor repentant Son in the best robes, and to make a great feast to celebrate his return. Which was done; and they began to be merry.

“But the eldest Son, who had been in the field and knew nothing of his brother’s return, coming to the house and hearing the music and Dancing, called to one of the Servants, and asked him what it meant. To this the Servant made answer that his brother had come home, and that his father was joyful because of his return. At this, the elder brother was angry and would not go into the house; so the father, hearing of it, came out to persuade him.

“‘Father,’ said the elder brother, ‘you do not treat me justly, to shew so much joy for my younger brother’s return. For these many years I have remained with you constantly, and have been true to you, yet you have never made a feast for me. But when my younger brother returns, who has been prodigal, and riotous, and spent his money in many bad ways, you are full of delight, and the whole house makes merry!’—‘Son,’ returned the father, ‘you have always been with me, and all I have is yours. But we thought your brother dead, and he is alive. He was lost, and he is found; and it is natural and right that we should be merry for his unexpected return to his old home.

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