The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-18

don't know but have used this illus
tration before, about trying to catch your
shadow. / remember when / was boy
used to try to jump over the shadow OF
my head, but never succeeded in getting
over it. Then / would try to
outrun it, but never could.
/ remember coming down the
mountain side one night and a boy was
trying TO catch me. / looked around and
saw my shadow running after me. Well,
the sweetest lesson have learned since I
have been in Christ's school is just to face
the great Shepherd and the shadow fol-
lows. Look for Christ and you will not
be in the dark. Now il there is a man or
woman here that is in the dark today, /
will tell you why. Ii is because
you have got away from the Shepherd, be-
cause you are afraid OF Him. Just get
near the Shepherd il you want food,
light, peace and JOY. Don't try to follow,
but just follow. When you were boy
and went to school it wasn't a matter OF
feeling, but obedience. What you want is
will. Thething we are told to do is Just
to follow, and IL we do we are not going
to be allowed to walk in the dark. Tenth
chapter of John, third verse, I" He calleth
them by name." / get a good deal of
comfort out OF that fact-that the Shep-
herd knows me by name. Why! He Saul
OF Tarsus, knew all about him. He
knew little of Samuel See! The Shep-
herd knows us by name. A friend of
mine was in Syria, and he found shep-
herd that kept up the old custom of nam
ing his sheep. This friend of mine said
he couldn't believe that the sheep knew
him when he called them by
name. So he asked the shepherd il the
sheep were all named and il they all knew
their names. 81 wish you would just call
one or two" The shepherd said, "Carl"
The sheep stopped eating looked up. The
shepherd called out "Come here.n The
sheep came and stood looking up into his
face. He called another and another, he
called up about dozen sheep
and there they stood looking up
at the shepherd. "How can you tell
them apartg' "Oh, there are no two
alike. See, that sheep toes in q little;
this sheep is a little bit squint eyed; that
sheep has black spot on its nose.n Nv
friend found that he knew every one OF
his sheep by their failings. He didn't
have perfect one in his flock. Isuppose
that is the way the Lord knows you and
me. There is a man that is
coveteous; he wants TO grasp the
whole world. He wants a shepherd to
keep down that spirit. There is a woman
down there who has an awful tongue;
she keeps the whole neighborhood stirred
up. There is n woman over there who is
deceitful, terribly so. She needs the care
OF a shepherd to keep her from deceit, for
she will ruin all her children. They will
all turn out Just like their mother.
There is father over there who wouldn't
swear for all the world before his
children, but sometimes he gets
provoked in his business and swears be-
fore he knows It. Doesn't he need a
shepherds care? / would like TO know
IL there is man or woman here who
doesn't need the care OF shepherd.
Havn't we all got failings? IL you really
want TO know what your failings are, You
can find some one who can point them
out. God would never have sent Christ
into the world IL we didn't need His care.
We are as weak and foolish as sheep.
/ wish 1 had time TO dwell on the ten
derness OF the Shepherd. find that satan
takes the advantage OF some people in
this way. A child dies Is taken from
home, and satan-says, "Ministers-
about the tenderness and kindness and
love OF the shepherd, don't you see how
he has wounded you9" My dear friend
don't let satan get the best OF you.
A friend OF mine in New York
Q was going to say the best man I ever
knew, sat right by me and worked as no
full children, and scarlet fever just came