A FRIEND who was traveling in the East, heard that there was a shepherd who still kept up the custom of calling his sheep by name. He went to the man and said:
“Let me put on your clothes, and take your crook, and I will call them, and see if they will come to me.” And so he did, and called one sheep, “Mina, Mina!” but the whole flock ran away. Then he said to the shepherd,
“Will none of them follow me when call I them?”
“Yes; sir, some of them will; the sick sheep will follow anybody,” the shepherd replied.
Let us learn a lesson from the healthy and sick sheep, and if we with purpose of heart cleave unto the Lord, we shall not be drawn away from following Him, the true Shepherd, by those who pretend to be shepherds, but are not.
The Lord says to each one of its who are His,
“Follow thou Me.” John 21:22.
ML 07/18/1937