The Modern Prodigal Worse Than the First

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The hell to which the dissipation of strong drink leads could hardly be more graphically illustrated than by a story which the Bishop of London told of the way the children of the drunken poor reason from the horrible experiences of their own sad lives. A little London girl from the slums was being examined on the parable of the Prodigal Son. The teacher had gotten as far as the repentance of the prodigal, and his eating of the swinehusks, when she inquired, “What else could he have done?” The child replied, evidently speaking out of her experience, “He could have pawned his little girl’s boots!”

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