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Updated: May 11, 2025
'He said your text, mammie the text that was on your picture: "The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost." 'And what did he tell you about it? 'He said Jesus went up and down all over to look for lost sheep, mammie; and he said we were all the sheep, and Jesus was looking for us. Do you think He is looking for you and me, mammie dear?
'She will be glad to get you back, said Rosalie. 'I don't know what my mammie would do if I ran away. 'Oh dear! said Jessie; 'I hope nothing came to those children; I do hope they got no harm when I was out! I've thought about that so often. Then the poor girl seemed very tired, and, leaning against the wall she fell asleep, whilst Rosalie rested once more against her mother's pillow.
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. 'I need repentance, Rosalie, child, said her mother. 'What is repentance, mammie dear?
It was on the very afternoon of this day that Cecile, walking slowly home with Maurice from school, and regretting very vehemently to her little brother the great loss they both had in the absence of dear, dear Mammie Moseley, was startled by a loud and frightened exclamation from her little brother. "Oh, Cecile! Oh, look, look!"
Then they passed through another village, where the bells were ringing for afternoon service, and the sick woman listened to them very sorrowfully. 'I shall never go to church again, Rosalie darling, she said. 'Oh, mammie, said little Rosalie, 'don't talk like that! When you get better, we'll go together. We could easily slip into the back seats, where nobody would see us.
But the young woman, taking Cecile's hand, came over and knelt on the ground, and, raising eyes brimful of tears, said: "Mammie, mammie, I am Susie! and Cecile has brought me back to you!" Over the confusion that ensued the perfect Babel of voices the endless exclamation the laughter and the tears it might be best to draw a veil.
"I can't, Mammie, I can't, though I'd like to. I had to tell Jane Parsons. I had to tell her, and she was faithful. But I think I'd better not tell even you again. Only 'tis a great care, and it means a long journey, and going south. It means all that much for me, and Maurice, and Toby." "Going south? You mean to Devonshire, I suppose, child?" "I don't know.
But there was no time to notice Toby, nor to think of Toby, for instantly he was followed by Maurice and Cecile and, immediately after them, a dark-eyed boy, and then a great big man, and last, but not least, a fair-haired and beautiful young woman. It was at this young woman Mammie Moseley stared even more intently than at Cecile.
'Mother Manikin told me you said something about sheep, mammie. 'Yes, that was it, said the poor woman; 'it's such a beautiful verse! "All we like sheep have gone astray;" that's just like me, darling I've gone astray, oh, so far astray! "And have turned every one to his own way;" that's me again, my own way, that's just what it was; I chose it myself; I would have my own way.
He went carefully down the steps of the caravan, and Rosalie stood at the window, watching him picking his way to the other shows, to which he was carrying the same message of peace. She looked out from between the muslin curtains until he had quite disappeared to a distant part of the field, and then she turned to her mother and said eagerly 'It's a very pretty picture, isn't it, mammie dear?
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