Meanings of poor prodigal in English

By faith, I could fully trust the poor prodigal in his hand.

Its voice has sent many a poor prodigal home to his father's house.

Of the absent, how many are wanderers, like the poor prodigal!

The father, by unseen influences, win to virtue the heart of his poor prodigal.

Oh, I trust thou wilt bring this poor prodigal to himself, and turn his steps towards his Father's house.

Do you remember the bitter experience of the poor prodigal, 'he would fain have filled his belly with the husks'?

Perhaps, had Clinton lived to enjoy the blessings of such a home, he had been a poor prodigal, or met misfortunes and griefs.

Oh, what a treasury of love have I mis-spent; what riches of the Heart, what only truest wealth, have I, poor prodigal, been squandering!

That this poor prodigal should marry Clara Pulleyn, and by way of a dowry lay his schedule at her feet, was out of the question.

Is it poor Prodigal yonder amongst the bad company, calling black and red and tossing the champagne; or brother Straitlace that grudges his repentance?