REPENTANCE.

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~ Did any one ever tell you, children, the story about
the prodigal son, as we find it in the Bible? He wasa
bad boy, who left his fathers home. This is the way it

as. He told his father, if he would give him his share
of the money that he would take care of himself. He
thought he could do this. Do you think he was right.
about it? No; it was.a great mistake. A great many
boys who are anxious to get away from their father’s
house, are glad enough to get back some day. ;

This boy took his money, and started off with high
hope that he should have a good time in the world. Like
many other boys, he fell into bad company, and was led
away into paths of sin, until he had lost his money and
his good name, and was left without friends. : He was in
a strange land, and did not know what todo. He went
to find some work, but as he had lost his good name he
could not get any nice work to do.

After a while he found a man who wanted some one
to tend his pigs. The poor boy was very hungry, but he
had no money to buy bread. We read that he even want-
ed some of the food he gave to the swine. O! how he