Christ ate with "sinners"; the Pharisees were dismayed!
"If you had a hundred sheep," He said, "and one strayed,
Or ten coins and lost one, you'd search far, find, then fuss!
Heav'n joys more when one repents that o'er those who're just!"
"Once a man had two sons," He said. "The younger lad
Left home, and squandered his inheritance from Dad.
In famine, feeding swine, he repented, o'erwrought.
"I'll go home, and just be a hired servant!" he thought,
But while he was yet far off, his Dad, seeing him,
Ran, hugged, kissed, and called for robe, ring, shoes, partying!
The elder brother was jealous - Dad talked him round:
"I'll e'er have you," he said, "but the lost one is found!"
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