title: Home Tonight: Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son
author:  Henri J.M. Nouwen 
description: To learn more about the life and work of Henri J.M.Nouwen, please visit HenriNouwen.org .
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  The REMITTANCE MAN: A TALE OF A PRODIGAL
  
  
    
    
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  # The REMITTANCE MAN: A TALE OF A PRODIGAL
  
  
  ### W.A. Fraser
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### PART I
  
  
  DEAN RUTHVEN, living in England, had a son, George. This would have
  
  
  been a very ordinary state of affairs in the ordinary course of events;
  
  
  but that George Ruthven was the son of a dean, or of any other great
  
  
  church dignitary, was most certainly a rather unbelievable fact. His
  
  
  life was about as uncanonized an affair as one of the way of Piccadilly
  
  
  civilization, and maintained by parental remittances.
  
  
  
  
  
  Of course, George was consigned to some one—he and his ten
  
  
  thousand pounds that was to start him in cattle ranching; 