p. 10 | THE LOST LAMB

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

THE LOST LAMB.

DR. BAEDEKER, who has made a journey to Eastern Siberia from the Transcaucasus, was ascending on one occasion a mountain side near Shemaka, at night. In the gray dawn his party was hailed by an Armenian shepherd, who was followed by his flock, and who bore a weakly lamb in his arms. Presently, the man stood still, and bent in an attitude of anxious listening for some time, then gently laid the lamb on the ground, and, calling his dog, committed the flock to its keeping, while he started off alone into the rocky solitude. Dr. Baedeker and his guides waited to see the result; and, in about an hour, the shepherd's figure stood out in the sunrise on the heights above, and with it that of the lost sheep he had gone in the wilderness to seek. What poem on earth could be more touching or more beautiful than this scene, older than history, yet new every morning.—Selected.