ON the Aleutsch glacier I saw a strange and beautiful sight—the parable of the “ninety and nine,” repeated to the letter. One day we were making our way with ice-ax and alpenstock down the glacier, when we observed a flock of sheep following their shepherd over the intricate windings between the crevasses, and so passing from the pastures on one side of the glacier to the pastures on the other. The flock numbered two hundred, all told. But on the way one sheep got lost. One of the shepherds, in his German patois, appealed to us whether we had seen it. Fortunately, one of the party had a field-glass. With its aid we discovered the sheep up amid a tangle of brushwood on the rocky mountainside. It was beautiful to see how the shepherd, without a word, left his hundred and ninety-nine sheep out in the glacier waste, knowing they would stand there still and perfectly safe, and went clambering back after the lost sheep until he found it; and he actually put it on his shoulders, and returned “rejoicing.” Here was the Lord’s parable enacted before our eyes, though the shepherd was all unconscious of it. And it brought our Lord’s teaching home to us with a vividness which none can realize but those who saw the incident.—“Leaves of Light.”