---
title: 'A Modern Prodigal'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Julia McNair Wright'
date: 1892-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Temperance'
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Fiction'
scriptures:
- 'Luke 15'
- 'Mark 5'
- 'John 15'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1892-a-modern-prodigal
---

# A Modern Prodigal

Temperance tale: drunkard Thomas Stanhope, sentenced to ten years, pleads for mercy for his wife and children and confesses repentance. Themes: sin, family, redemption.

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