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311] THE SPOILED CHILD. 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014soon\nwill you be summoned to leave it! As the Lord liveth, and as your soul liveth,\nthere is only a step between you and death! O what will you feel\u2014what will you\nsay\u2014 what will you do, when the eternal world in all its fearful realities, in\nall its overpowering glories and terrors, shall burst on your astonished and\ndisembodied soul! O hear me\u2014return to the Lord God of your father! I beseech\nyou, by Him who loved us, and gave himself for us \u2014by him who died on the cross\nfor us\u2014by the Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech you, return to your God! By the\nmemory of that dear old man your father\u2014by the memory of his tears, and\nprayers, and vows\u2014by the memory of that dear saint of God, now in heaven, your\nmother, who bare you, and nursed you in her bosom, and wept and prayed over\nyou\u2014whose last prayer and sigh were breathed from her dying lips for you\u2014O\nreturn to your God; and break off your sins by repentance and faith in the Lord\nJesus Christ!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nburst into tears, and placing his hands on his face, bowed himself down, his\nface on his knees, and wept aloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nall kneeled down and prayed: the miserable man kneeled close by me: my heart\nwas utterly overcome: I poured out my soul in almost incoherent words: I\nimplored the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on him, his wife, and his dear little\nchildren. Every one of us wept: the very children sobbed: and I shall never\nforget the scene: the floor where the prodigal son bowed his head was wet with\nhis streaming tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsun was now setting: we took our leave of him with a cordial embrace: he led us\nto our horses, and on parting besought us to visit him soon again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, alas! it was our last interview with him. I never\nsaw him more. I was called into a neighboring State on business of the\nchurches, and I was absent two weeks. The first news I learned, as I alighted\nat my own door, on my return, was the appalling intelligence that POOR JOHN C\u2014 WAS\nDEAD, AND BURIED!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nlearned in brief his last moments from the Elder who had accompanied me on my\nlast visit, and who had seen him when dying. Poor C\u2014 was attacked with fits: he\nraved
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311] THE SPOILED CHILD. 23 \u2014soon will you be summoned to leave it! As the Lord liveth, and as your soul liveth, there is only a step between you and death! O what will you feel\u2014what will you say\u2014 what will you do, when the eternal world in all its fearful realities, in all its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/826"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}