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People came from the town; and a wiry shepherd, placing himself before the entrance to the grotto, and using his staff as a spear, said: "Men of Bethlehem, ye cannot enter; the babe sleeps." Near by stood an old man, who said dreamily: "The town cast him out. I always said there was no salvation yonder. That's to be found with the poor under the open sky.

But, now, from the shepherd boy and from his valley and his song, let us go on without any more poetry or parable to look our own selves full in the face and to ask our own hearts whether they are the hearts of really humble-minded and New Testament men or no. Dr. Newman, "that subtle, devout man," as Dr.

We calmed the shepherd with assurances that we would be extremely careful, and continued onward, and when we least expected it, a sudden rounding of the road freed us from the trees which grew upon the banks of the Loddon, and we emerged upon an open space containing about sixty acres, and in the middle of the vast square was the farm house belonging to Mr. Wright.

I had learned to read by that time, and when I had bought it I wanted nothing so much as a quiet life, away from the haunts of men, where I could read and ponder and study the blessed Word without fear of man." "So you took to the life of a shepherd a calm and peaceful life, that reminds us of many holy things."

"One would think you a born shepherd, Don, instead of a boy who has only been out on the range with a herder." "Why do you call Sandy just a herder, father?" Donald asked, seeming to fear that the term was a slight to his friend the Scotchman. "Because he is a herder, son.

To the refined and cultivated scholar, whose lot had been cast so strangely with the rude people of the mountain wilderness, the companionship of such a spirit and mind was a necessity. Unconsciously Sammy had supplied the one thing lacking, and by her demands upon his thought had kept the shepherd from mental stagnation and morbid brooding.

Well, for some time past there's been faint noises coming from that cave noises like heavy sighings, with grunts mixed up in them; and sometimes a snoring, far away down REAL snoring, yet somehow not HONEST snoring, like you and me o'nights, you know!" "I know," remarked the Boy, quietly. "Of course I was terrible frightened," the shepherd went on; "yet somehow I couldn't keep away.

She seized it eagerly, and held it up before her with evident delight, whilst her mother raised herself on her elbow to look at it with her. It was the picture of a shepherd, with a very kind and compassionate face, who was bearing home in his bosom a lost lamb.

'I'll gang wi' ye, replied the Minister, 'I'll guide ye; and wi' this, he took up his heavy 'crook, 'I'll fettle "Auld Hornie." 'I don't care about the wager, continued the other, desirous of putting off the evil moment; 'here's the sovereign for yourself or the old shepherd.

Rejoicing greatly with "the ninety and nine," the pious zeal of Elizabeth wept over "the lost sheep in the wilderness," and she longed to go out among the mountains as a personal coworker with the chief Shepherd and bring them to the fold. In fact, her ideal of the destitute regions she had dreamed of was substantially answered by territory near her home, and providentially brought to her notice.