Part 25

[B: When we speak of GOD as a FATHER we must not forget that He is only such in its full meaning to those who have become His children by faith in CHRIST JESUS; and that the sad and solemn words of the loving Saviour to the unconverted were, "Ye are of _your_ father, the devil." The prodigal was a backslider: when furthest from home he could yet think and speak of the privileges of his father's house.]