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Extract from F.D. Huntington's Sermons.
Homeward bound.

"But now, being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and
the end, everlasting life." The soul has reached its
period of victory. From the far country, through these
seven stages, it has travelled back, till it has come
home, - home. - O word of unspeakable an unhausted
meaning! The door of the Father's house was open, and
it has entered in. To hear that sentence of forgiving
welcome, - as if all the sighs of a parent's anxious
and agonized affection were suddenly melted into one
musical and joyous anthem of thanksgiving, -
"This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was
lost, and is found." - to hear that from the
Father's lips is heaven enough. After conflict,
there is peace. Now is "the rest that remaineth
for the people of God." This is life eternal. Hence-
forth, there Shall be labor, indeed, for labor is the
best satisfaction of a spiritual being. There shall be
trial, because only by trial come strength and