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Show HIS WELCOME FOR PRODIGAL Cowboy Would Have Reversed Pro-ceedings Pro-ceedings as Recorded in the Scriptures. Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the famous Denver juvenile court said in the course of a recent address in charity: char-ity: "Too many of us are inclined tc think that, one misstep made, the boy Is gone for good. Too many of us are like the cowboy. "An itinerant preacher preached to a cowboy audience on the 'Prodigal Son.' He described the foolish prodigal's prodi-gal's extravagance and dissipation; hi described his penury and his husk-eating husk-eating with the swine in the sty; he described his return, his father's loving lov-ing welcome, the rejoicing, and the preparation of the fatted calf. "The preacher in his discourse noticed no-ticed a cowboy staring at him very hard. He thought he had made a convert, con-vert, and addressing the cowboy personally, per-sonally, he said from the pulpit: "'My dear friend, what would you have done if you had had a prodigal eon returning home like that?' "'Me!' said the cowboy, promptly ,nd fiercely, 'I'd have shot the boy and raised the calf.' " Detroit Free Press. |