The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-11-13
THE LORD
OUR SHEPHERD
Sunday School Lesson for Nov. Is, 1908
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LESSON TEXT,-Psalm 30; read also
John 1O:1-lS. Commit entire Psalm.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"The Lord is my
Shepherd, / shall not want."-Psalm 23:l.
AUTHOR.-Davi
TIME-Either in his youth or later In
a review of his life. Barton places 1t
Sam. 17.21-29.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The Good Shepherd Shepherding
His Sheep.-Vs. 1-3. "On such will
derness of mirage, Elusive paths, Turk
ing terrors and infrequent spots OF
heritage, it is evident that the person
and character of the shepherd must
mean great deal more to the sheep
than they can possibly mean with us.
With us, sheep left to themselves may
be seen any tlay-in field or on
hillside with a travelling wire fence
to keep them from straying. But
do not remember ever to have seen in
the east flock of sheep without a
shepherd. On such a landscape as
have described he is obviously indis-
pensable."
The sheep in modern times under
civilized governments are as really
protected by the shepherd as are those
in the open fields of the orient; only
in Q different way. The laws take
the place of clubs and crooks. Fences
and police guards are but another
mode of protecting the sheep from
labyrinthine paths and desert dangers
and of guiding them to the green pas
lures and waters of rest.
This is equally true OF life. BY a
fuller knowledge of natural and divine
law, by the protection, which Christian
civilization bestows, and the guidance
of Gods word, many things are done
for us which needed once more visible
guidance. But it is the same shep-
herdinS as was given of old.
The Good Shepherd loves his sheep
with an everlasting love. He gives his
Life for the sheep.
He left heaven, his home, and be-
came man; taught, suffered, died, that
he might find his lost ones.
"The shepherdhood of Christ and
the fatherhood of God are the two
most comforting assurances of Scrip
ture." Hugh Black
The Good Shepherd Knows His Sheep
by Name. 1T is a remarkable fact in
oriental husbandry that in flock of
hundreds of thousands each individual
sheep has its name, knows it, and is
known by it," This implies: l. That
the shepherd takes living, personal
interest in each individual. 2. That
he knows each individuals peculiar
circumstances, so that he ministers
to each one what he specially needs
and requires. 8. That he assigns to
each one the work for which he is best
fitted. A. That he can accept the love
and loyalty-of each individual. Jesus,
the 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,
he calls them by the name which sug-
gests at once their failing and his help,
and his call thus becomes a tender
appeal, for it Is both a remembrancer
and promise. Hugh Black.
The Good Shepherd is Our Guide
Through Life. "He lcadeth me-"
"Guideth me on a journey from which
1t is easy to stray from the right
path" in the paths of righteousness"
in the right tracks, those that lead
directly and safely to the place of des-
tination. PROF. C. A. Briggs. often
have l roamed through the shepherd
country in my youth and watched how
hard it is to choose the right path
for the sheep; one leads to precipice,
another to a place where the sheep
cannot find the way back; and the
shepherd was always going ahead,
leading them in the right paths,
proud of his good name as a shep-