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Our Saviour’s Watch Care for His “Little Flock”

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 3.

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Our Saviour’s Watch Care for His “Little Flock”

By HANNAH J. BAKER

HANNAH J. BAKER
The care a hen has for her chickens was strikingly illustrated in an account given in one of our daily papers a few years ago. A small stable with a lean-to was found to be on fire. A cow and a few implements were taken out before it was destroyed, but the next morning the family happened to think of a hen with little chickens that stayed in the shed, and went out to see what had become of them. They found the charred body of the hen still hovering her little ones, which were all alive and well.
Just before our Saviour made his great sacrifice on Calvary for us, he spoke of a hen’s love for her brood as typical of his love for his “little flock,” in these sorrowful words, as he wept over the doomed city of his love: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, . . . how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Matt. 23:37.
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