Article August 29, 1931 Issue

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NORRIS RADCLIFFE FILL

THERE is no more beautiful illustration of God's perpetual, loving care of His children than Jesus' parable of the prodigal son, recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, and, as Mrs. Eddy says (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 91), "rightly called 'the pearl of parables.'" The lesson thus given by our Master to the sinner of his period is of much practical value to-day to those who are struggling with the belief of man as separate from God and lacking those things needful to health and happiness; to those who have gathered a few material possessions and are dwelling in "a far country," namely, in the belief that satisfaction and happiness are at the mercy of matter and its supposititious laws.

After giving way to the suggestion of evil and entertaining a belief of separation from his father, the younger son was controlled by the false belief that enjoyment was to be found in serving the material senses. This indulgence was followed by the inevitable rude awakening of privation and suffering.

On page 307 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes, "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies." The prodigal had reached that extremity in human experience where dependence on material means had failed, and he was ready for the lesson of his father's unchanging love, and its attendant blessing.

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