Jesus With The Outcasts
The tax-gatherers and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to him; but the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law found fault.
“This man always welcomes outcasts, and takes meals with them,” they complained. So Jesus told them this parable—
“What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it? And, when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders rejoicing; and, on reaching home, he calls his friends and his neighbors together, and says, ‘ Come and rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’ So I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in Heaven over one outcast that repents, than over ninety-nine religious men, who have no need to repent.”
—Luke.
A Commonwealth Of Homes
When the Kingdom of God is completely established on this earth, it will be a world-wide commonwealth of homes. Clubs, hotels, apartments and the like are ugly things that must give place for the coming kingdom of homes.
The Necessity Of Home Influences
Ours is a sad lot if we have allowed the home to become incidental in our life, if there we do not find the unfailing shelter, the great stronghold, the very source and impulse of all our living. The saddest thing in this world is a broken, ruined home where love has been turned into hatred, patience into petulance, self-sacrifice into selfishness.
—C. S. Macfarland.
The greatest heritage any child can have is the influence and memory of a good home.