Are you astray from Him? not fulfilling His word? We are all astray. But is your eye towards Him, and your heart and your foot moving that way? We see no messengers running with tidings in their mouth, one over the hills and the other over the plain. The father of the son who is astray waiteth not in the chamber between the walls until he may ask of the messengers who come, Is my son safe? But the Father _runs Himself_: "when he was yet a great way off his father ... _ran_." The distance between these two is lessening hour by hour. Let the son who was and is still astray, bend his steps with earnest will on the track by which the Father comes; and--it is not my word--it is the greatest of all words which has been spoken upon this earth, the Father shall receive him "_safe_ and sound." I.E. CHILLCOTT, STEAM PRESS, BRISTOL. End of Project Gutenberg's Is The Young Man Absalom Safe?, by David Wright