Item - "I Will Come Back To-Night"

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 31 no. 26 — page 3
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 26, May 15, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
Date:	May 15, 1876
Edition Description:	"I have traveled much for a young man, but I never found a happy backslider in my life. I never saw a man that was really born of God, and born again, and born of the Spirit, that ever could find the world the same to him afterward. I pity the backslider, but I want to tell you that the Lord Jesus pities you a good more than any one else can pity you. He knows how bitter your life is, and He wants you to come home. Oh, backslider, come home to-night. I have come with a loving message from your Father, He will receive you with joy and gladness, and He will say as of him mentioned in Luke XV., "Bring out the best robe, and put it upon him, kill the fatted calf, put a ring on his hands and shoes on his feet, and let us rejoice and be glad; for the wanderer is come home, the dead is alive again." Oh, prodigal, come home to-night. Backslider, while I am speaking, say down in the depths of your heart, "I will come back tonight" Say as the prodigal of old did, "I will arise and go to my Father," and He will receive you. I never heard of a backslider coming home, but God received him. I never heard of a backslider coming home, but God received him. I never heard of prodigal with his face toward home, but God was ready to receive him. Did you ever read of such? Never. I defy any man to say he ever knew a really honest backslider want to get home, but God was willing to take him in. And He takes you back just as you are. He will restore his love unto your heart to-night if you will only come"- Mr. Moody's London Sermon