Good-night, pretty sun, good-night;
     I’ve watched your purple and golden light,
       While you are sinking away. 
     And someone has just been telling me
     You’re making, over the shining sea,
       Another beautiful day: 
     That just at the time I am going to sleep,
     The children there are taking peep
       At your face—­beginning to say
       “Good-morning!” just when I say, “Good-night!”
     Now, beautiful sun, if they’ve told me right,
       I wish you’d say good-morning for me
       To all the little ones over the sea.

—­Sel.

Our lesson.—­For May 3.

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Prepared by Marguerite Cook.

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Title.—­The Prodigal Son (Temperance Lesson).—­Luke 15:11-32.

Golden Text.—­I will arise and go to my father.—­Luke 15:18.

Golden Text for Beginners.—­God is love.—­1 John 4:8.

Truth.—­The Lord will receive all who return to him.

1.  Jesus told the people a parable, or story, about a man who had two sons.

2.  The younger one asked for his share of his father’s money to spend as he pleased.

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3.  He took the money and went away, and soon wasted it in sin and rich living.

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4.  When he had spent it all, he found that he had no money or friends.

5.  He hired out to a man to feed swine.

6.  He was so hungry that he wanted to eat the swine’s food.

7.  He felt very sorry that he had been so selfish and wicked.

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8.  He said to himself, “I will arise and go to my father.”

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9.  His father saw him coming, and ran out to meet him and kissed him.

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10.  He gave him new clothes and a ring.

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11.  He made a great feast, and wanted everyone to rejoice because his son had come home.

12.  God is our loving Father, and he rejoices when we turn away from sin and come back to him.

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QUESTIONS.

What is the Golden Text?

What is the Truth?

1.  About what did Jesus tell the people a parable?

2.  What did the younger son want?

3.  What did he do with it?

4.  What did he find when he spent it all?

5.  What did he do to earn a living?

6.  What was he willing to eat?

7.  How did he feel?

8.  What did he say to himself?

9.  What did his father do when he saw him coming?

10.  What did he give him?

11.  Why did he want everyone to rejoice?

12.  When does God rejoice?