iv The Fatherhood of God. 53 



him the fellow-labourer who entered at the eleventh 

 hour. 



And underlying the double lesson of these two 

 parables are the truths, not so much expressed as 

 implied and taken for granted, that God is our Father, 

 and seeks us because we are His children ; that it is 

 possible for man to spend his entire life, from the 

 beginning, in the Father's house; and that to do 

 so is the highest aim of Christian education and 

 Christian life. 1 



1 On the subject of such an education, see the late Dr. 

 Horace Bushnell's Christian Nurture (Edinburgh, Strahan : 

 London, Sampson Low, 1861), an excellent book which ap- 

 pears to be much less known than it deserves. 



