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harsh, cold, and possessed of many disagreeable traits. The audience laughed derisively, for they knew their neighbor to be kind, genial and benevolent. They told the professor that he had miserably failed to judge character by his science. But the man himself was not amused; turning to the people he said : “Friends, you have heard portrayed exactly my nature before Jesus took possession of me. If there is any change, the honor belongs to Him.”
In a Far Country B y M rs . A lbert S impson R eitz
N Luke 15:13 we, read that the prodigal son left his home and went into a far country. We find in this a parallel in the life of the Christian. Not in the sense that many of us have lived extremely reckless lives or dis graced ourselves and our loved ones. The most of us have learned to love the Master too well for that, yet there is a sense in which we may become prodigals and not real ize it. Even now some of us may be “in a far country.” God is our Father; our citizenship is in heaven; the farthest from heaven that a Christian can get is the world. Whenever we set our affections upon worldly things we are in a far country. Whenever our standard is lowered to that of the world instead of being raised to the Mas ter’s we are in a far country. And how often we live like those of the world by shirking a duty, deceiving someone by word or deed, say ing things that should have been left unsaid and by being indifferent to the struggles of those who were weaker than we. How these things do drive us into a far country! And how they do affect our Christian experience and our rela tion to our heavenly Father! We all know, with what little relish we eat even our favorite foods when the heart is sore because of the remembrance of angry words spoken in haste, or the consciousness of having grieved our loved ones. What food we do eat at such a time does not benefit us. How true this is of the food which our gracious Father has provided for us. We cannot thoroughly enjoy His Word or get the best there is in it when our lives are out of harmony with His will. As a little child I ran away from home several times in order to play with the neighbor’s children. I knew mother objected quite seriously but I did not understand why she objected. She never whipped me when I came home but she had a way of making me feel that she was displeased, and somehow, that evening I would not feel free to claim my place in mother’s lap for the evening story and that hurt me more than a whipping. And now I find in my Christian experience that when I run off into a far country I cannot enjoy the same things from my heavenly Father when I first return and it takes some time before I have the same fellowship with Him. Not only our own lives but the lives of those in the world about us are affected by our wandering. The prod igal son could not care for his father’s sheep when he was in the far country. Neither can we care for our Father’s sheep when we are in the far country. How can we be soul-winners if our lives are not pure and clean ? How can sinners recognize us as children of the King when we are dressed in the rags of the prodigal? May we all be kept from wandering in the far country while His lambs for whom He died are caught in the briars of sin. May we so live that when we go home it shall not be like the saddened prodigal, empty-handed, but with joyous hearts bringing precious jewels to lay at His feet.
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