...the prodigal would have been in your mind, and you would have known that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." Dick could not reply to this appeal, but groaned heavily ; upon which his mother immediately contiuned....

...are out of the way. " For verily I say unto you," saith our Saviour, " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.'' Thus it is that he keepeth our going out in a spiritual sense, making even our outgoings and backslidings...

...penitent is a subject of great triumph. Our blessed Lord declares that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.'' What a stupendous recovery it is ! — first from the despotism of sin, to the power of holiness; next,...

...great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth, he said, " ' There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is...

...great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth, he said, " ' There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is...

..."one sinner" cordially repents, and returns to his duty. That the angels themselves rejoice " more over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance," is also one of our Saviour's own assertions, — and can be K2 shewn to be,...

...issue so successful, and to all the faithful in Christ Jesus. For if there " be greater joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance," a similar expression of gladness on earth cannot be sinful. But one part of Us employment who is "the...

...issue so successful, and to all the faithful in Christ Jesus. For if there " be greater joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance," a similar expression of gladness on earth cannot be sinful. But one part of his employment who is "the...

...of suspicious allegiance ? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the...

...men of suspicious allegiance? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons ?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the...