The Shepherd and His Sheep

What man of you having a hundred sheep ….Luke 15:4 So Christ spake to the Pharisees and Scribes who murmured because He received and ate with publicans and sinners. They had drawn near unto Him to hear Him. They had listened to Him with rapt attention, had drank in His words of life. Their souls had been refreshed. How they felt themselves drawn to this Galilean. There was something about the man that set Him apart. A peculiar solemnity mixed with a rare sym­pathy seemed to radiate from His...