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to me." He gave you memory, will, judgment and a tender conscience. Have you spent these holy treasures in riotous living? Does your conscience tell you you have always lived right? If not, then you, too, are a prodigal and ought to say, "I will arise and go to my Father." There are sins of omission, commission and submission. The prodigal's sin was that of commission. But there are many today, while they are staying at home, are omitting duty, while some are submitting to things in their lives, their family and friends which are not right. If you have broken up your home here on earth, go to God in genuine repentance and adjust your Iif e with Him, that you may not rupture eternally your heavenly home. Burns expresses my prayer for every family on earth: \Vhen soon or late, :rou reach that coast, O'er life's rough ocean driven, May you rPjoice no wanderer lost, Your family in heaven.