We wear no fringes on the borders of our garments. But the law is written in every heart. Look upon it, young men and young women, and remember—That is God: not a stream of tendency or any such vague and fantastic shadow. But, That is God—the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in Him your Father.
Are you astray from Him? not fulfilling His word? We are all astray. But is your eye towards Him, and your heart and your foot moving that way? We see no messengers running with tidings in their mouth, one over the hills and the other over the plain. The father of the son who is astray waiteth not in the chamber between the walls until he may ask of the messengers who come, Is my son safe? But the Father runs Himself: "when he was yet a great way off his father ... ran." The distance between these two is lessening hour by hour. Let the son who was and is still astray, bend his steps with earnest will on the track by which the Father comes; and—it is not my word—it is the greatest of all words which has been spoken upon this earth, the Father shall receive him "safe and sound."