3 sermon illustrations on affection — stories, anecdotes and meditations from classic illustration collections, each credited to the book it came from.
Lack of parental affection leads to destructive and harmful outcomes.
Saturn is represented in mythology as a monster who devoured his own children. Vulcan was born lame, and his mother Juno was so enraged that the threw him out of heaven.
Two brothers save their parents from a besieged city, showing filial devotion.
Ancient history records, that a certain city was besieged, and at length obliged to surrender. In the city there were two brothers, who had, in some way, obliged the conquering general; and in consequence of this, received permission to leave the city before it was set on fire, taking with them as much of their property as each could carry about his person. Accordingly the two generous youths appeared at the gates of the city, one of them carrying their father, and the other their mother.
Titus Manlius defends his harsh father, gaining public forgiveness and honor.
A certain Roman, in the days of paganism, called Titus Manlius, was treated extremely ill by his father, for no other reason than a defect in his speech. A tribune of the people brought an accusation against his father before the people, who hated him for his imperious conduct, and were determined to punish him with severity. The young man hearing this, went one morning very early from his father's country farm, where he was forced to live like a slave, and finding out the house of the tribune who had impeached his father, entreated that he would immediately drop the prosecution. The tribune declared before the people that he withdrew his charge against old Manlius, because his son Titus had obliged him to promise upon oath that he would carry it no farther. The people, charmed with the filial piety of Titus, shown to so unnatural a father, not only forgave the old man, but the next year advanced his generous son to the supreme honors of the state.
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