He Waits to Welcome Come Home
He Waits to Welcome. Come Home.—Not long ago we read of a son who at the age of 22 quarreled with his father, left home, and was gone for 45 years. He returned and found his parents alive and well at the age of 90, while he was an old man of 67. How they welcomed him back! They embraced him, kissed him, and then told him how they had prayed all these years for his return. "We knew you would come back to us, John," they said as they clasped him in their arms. When he reached home, he came in the night, as a stranger, begging for shelter and food, which were freely given. The next morning he presented them $5,000. Dear soul, astray from the fold of God, the heavenly Father waits to welcome your return. You can not bring Him gold or wealth, but you can bring yourself. Christ died for you. For His sake the Father waits and longs for your return. In His name we bid you to come back to the Father's house. Come home. Mr. Rockefeller proposes to divide his great fortune, as we noted some time ago; a part of it to be placed in what is called a foundation fund. Some of the large expenditures which he proposes to make will be $53,000,000 to a general educational board; $25,000,000 to Chicago University; $6,000,000 to Rush Medical College; $5,400,000 to churches and missions; Baptist foreign mission fund, $2,000,000; the elimination of the hookworm, $1,000,000; Harvard and Yale, each $1,000,000; Baptist Educational Society, juvenile reformatories, Cleveland city parks, $1,000,000 each; Union Theological Seminary, $1,100,000; Southern educational funds, $1,125,000; Bernard College, $1,375,000; $2,000,000 for medical research; and miscellaneous, $35,000,000. These certainly are stupendous benefactions; and everybody ought to rejoice that Mr. Rockefeller has determined to distribute his wealth where some of it at least will prove a blessing.