me this must be a good figure,
because sheep when wandering find it impossible to seek again for
themselves their home, and in their helplessness they fittingly
represent the one who wanders away from God. There are so many people
to-day who are trying to find their way back without Christ. They are
like wandering sheep. There are so many who are seeking to climb up
some other way into the favor of God. These are on every side of us,
and the time has come for us to present unto them Jesus Christ the
Savior of the world.

IV

These people that Jesus saw were shepherdless. The responsibility for
their wandering therefore rested not so much upon themselves as upon
the fact that the one who should have cared for them was not doing so.
We are our brother's keeper, whether we are willing to acknowledge it
or not.

In meetings in California one of the ministers went forth during the
week to invite those who were away from Christ to come to him. He
found an old white-haired soldier who said, "When I was in the army
years ago I promised God that I would be a Christian. I have never
kept my word. Yes, I will come to him now." And when he came his wife
and children came with him. "All these years," he said, "I have waited
for some one to ask me." He called upon another man who had been
impressed in the meetings and this man acknowledged that he had long
felt his need of help, that he had prayed the night before, "O God, if
you want me to come to thee send some one to speak to me." When the
minister came the man trembled when he said, "You must be the messenger
of God for whom I have been waiting," and he came beautifully to
Christ. On every side of us people are waiting as sheep without a
shepherd for us simply to do our duty.

V

The result of this vision which Jesus had was that he did an unusual
thing. In the tenth chapter and the first verse we read, "And when he
had called unto him his twelve disciples he gave them power against
unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness
and all manner of disease." Which leads me to say that we must have
the same spirit. Our present day church methods reach not more than
one-fourth the unsaved and many of these come from the ranks of our
Sunday schools and from Christian homes where for one reason or another
they have not made a profession of their faith in Christ.
Three-fourths of the lost are left to wander farther and farther away
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