Article September 26, 1925 Issue

The Prodigal Son

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

No one ever tires of reading the story of the prodigal son. Its beauty and its comforting assurance of the Father's tender love for all His children, however far they may have wandered, have been a source of the deepest consolation to many generations of Christians. But to the Christian Scientist the story has an even greater significance, knowing as he does that every mortal is a prodigal and that sooner or later every one must realize his hunger, his need of the truth, and wish to know and express man's true being.

In his Father's house—divine consciousness—there is everything necessary for the son's happiness. Error, however, suggests something else besides God, good, and that this something brings joy and satisfaction.

We are not told very much about the "far country" into which the prodigal wandered; but we read that when he was sufficiently tired of the empty husks of self-love and human will, "he came to himself," and decided to go back to his father. Would it not be well to examine for a moment the qualities then expressed by the wandering son even in that "far country," the qualities which enabled him, as they will enable each one of us, to return to our Father's house in safety?

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