The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-11-12
The LORD
OUR SHEPHERD
Sunday School Lesson for Nov. Is, 1908
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LESSON TEXT-Psalm %: read also
John 10:1-1S. Commit entire Psalm.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"The Lord Is my
Shepherd, I shall not want psalm 23:t
AUTHOR.-David
TIME.-Either in his youth. or later In
a review Of his life Barton places 1t
during Absalom's rebellion, referring to
Sam. 17:27-29.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The Good Shepherd Shepherdin
His Sheep.-Vs. 1-3. "On such a will
darness of mirage, Elusive paths, lurk
ing terrors, and infrequent spots of
herbage, 1t is evident that the perso0
and character Of the shepherd mus
mean a great deal more to the sheer
han they can possibly mean with us
With us, sheep left to themselves may
he seen any day--in a field or on .
hillside with a travelling wire fencf
% keep them from straying. But
10 not remember ever to have seen ir
he east a flock of sheep without
shepherd. On such a landscape as
lave described he is obviously indis
pensable."
The sheep In modern times mdei
ivilized governments are as really
protected by the shepherd as are those
in the open fields Of the orient; only
in a different way. The laws take
the place Of clubs and crooks. Fences
and police guards are but another
mode Of protecting the sheep from
'abyrinthine paths and desert dangers,
and of guiding them to the green pas.
.ures and waters Of rest.
This is equally true Of life BY
fuller knowledge of natural and divine
aw, by the protection, which Christian
civilization bestows, and the guidance
Of Gods word. many things are done
or us which needed once more visible
| Guidance. But II Is the same shep.
herding as was given Of old.
The Good Shepherd loves his sheep
with an everlasting love. He gives his
life for the sheep.
lie left heaven, his home, and be.
anne man; taught, suffered, died, that
he might find his lost ones.
The shepherdhood of Christ and
:he fatherhood OF God are the two
most comforting assurances Of Scrip
rIre." Hugh Black.
The Good Shepherd Knows His Sheep
~ Name ut is remarkable fact in
rental husbandry, that in a flock of
"undreds of thousands each individual
sheep has its name, knows 1t, and is
'nown by it." This implies: /. That
he shepherd takes a living personal
interest in each individual. 2. That
he knows each individuals peculiar
circumstances. so that he ministers
20 each one what he specially needs
md requires. 3. That he assigns TO
ach one the work for which he is best
tilted. 4. That he can accept the love
and loyalty OF each individual. Jesus
he Good Shepherd, does all this and
more for his flock.
Every life needs shepherding; and
shepherd knows his sheep by their
= weakness and faults, and measures his
care of them thereby; and when the
, Good Shepherd calls his own sheep
Ne calls them by the name which sug
tests at once their failing and his help
and his call thus becomes a tender
appeal, for 1t is both a remembrance
and a promise. Hugh Black.
|, The Good Shepherd Is Our Guild,
Through Life. He leadeth me.
'Guideth me on a Journey from which
It is easy to stray from the righ
path" I'm the paths OF righteousness.
in the right tracks. those that Leaf
, directly and safely to the place of des
tination. PROF. c. A. Briggs. "Oftel
!. have | roamed through the shepherd
, country in my youth and watched hov
y = lard It is to choose the right patl
For the sheep; one leads to a precipice
another to a place where the sheeI
-annot find the way back; and tn
shepherd was always going ahead
leading them In the right paths
proud of his good name as a sher
. herd. Song of the Syrian Shepherd
: Thy rod and thy staff" "arc no
synonymous, for even the shepherd o
today, though often armed with a gur
carries two instruments of wood, hi
. great oak club, thick enough to brai
, | Wllu DedSl, anu MS bldl lO ltdu upO
a or to touch his sheep with, while tn
ancient shepherd without firearm
. . would surely still more require both.
= George Adam Smith.
a The staff is the common shepherd
. crook, by which he can draw a wal
!, dering sheep toward him or pull hiI
&c out of some crevice or away froI
a some poisonous herb,
"They comfort me-" I'VE must nc
miss the force of the good old wor
comfort icon, together; forti
strong). It means far more than sin
!. ply to console. It signifies to tone u
he whole nature, to strengthen a ma
so that all his energies can be brougl
10 TO bear."--M. r.. Vincent.
a. Goodness and mercy" (the qual
"a les OF Cod shall follow me-" pursu
W ne, hunt me.
AZ one need not seek anxiously fC
in hem as an Elusive blessing, as II
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