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But these two do still coincide in substance, inasmuch as God's chief way of seeking us poor wandering sheep is through the work of His dear Son Jesus, and the coming of Christ is the Father's searching for His sheep in the 'cloudy and dark day. According to my text God leaves the ninety-and-nine and goes into the mountains where the wanderer is, and seeks him.
The worse the soul, the more the Saviour yearns to reclaim it. You remember the parable of the ninety-and-nine?" "Who can forget it?" said the reverend doctor, tears springing to his eyes. "No one, my dear brother, no one," replied the priest. "Well, my lost sheep have all come back. The invisible Church has helped the visible, and " "Is my Church, then, invisible?" asked Dr.
House-smith' who had advertised for his ninety-and-nine kisses, and the clap-trap of the message in telegraphic characters, and all the rest of it, were simply the kind of bait at which so eccentric a person might be expected to bite.
Penfer, and the drawling intonations, with the occasional rise of the voice at the end of a sentence, came to the ears of Denas with the pleasant familiarity of an old song. As he ceased speaking some woman began to sing "The Ninety-and-Nine," and so singing they rose and passed out of the cottage and to their own homes.
The ninety-and-nine discover that they have a weary contest to maintain with manifold contingencies and combinations which no foresight can preclude. The application of this general truth to their profession the clergy are backward to perceive. The consequences of this backwardness are very hurtful to their interests.
I thought it was too good to last," said the neglected prodigal. "You have left the poor sheep in the wilderness and gone back to the ninety-and-nine righteous men who need no repentance." He put up his handkerchief to his eyes as he spoke, and so far forgot himself as to look with laughter in his face at his brother Gerald.
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