07.01.01.B The Wrong Crowd

B. THE WRONG CROWD When the prodigal son reached his destination, his social nature craved companionship, and in seeking it he fell in with the wrong crowd. Oh, the young men who have been wrecked in just this way! When you run with a crowd you must keep up with it, and in doing so this boy wasted his substance in riotous living. All some people can see in this statement is the money he carried away from home, but that was the least of what he had. When he left his home he was an ambitious young man, but he wasted his ambition in riotous living. He was honest, sober and chaste, but these good qualities were wasted. He was no doubt a strong young man physically and his physical strength went also. And last and least, he had the half of a father’s fortune, but it was wasted in riotous living.