THE ONE LOST SHEEP by Mark Guy Pearse

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 14, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 24.

THE ONE LOST SHEEP.

By Mark Guy Pearse

Do NOT let us mistake the meaning of the ninety and nine, as if God loved sinners more than the righteous. It is better to be in the fold than astray. But the lost has all the claim, all the thought, all the effort. You know that when a little one is ill in the home, everything centers about that one. The others must wait and be content to be forgotten. The others must manage for themselves as best they can. Nobody has time to think of them. That does not mean that it is better to be ill than well—not at all. But it does mean that the sick one has a claim and a need that the others have not. I pray you believe it and bless God, for it is a glorious truth. Lost one, there is a sense in which you are more to the Saviour than are the very angels of God, more than the happy ones within the fold. Over you yet there yearns a tender pity; for you He comes with all His power to help and all His graciousness to offer: "My child, My own lost little one," said He, "I cannot rest until I find thee and bring thee home again."—Mark Guy Pearse.