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Won from the Wildwood-Part 3 by Dr F W Boreham

Won from the Wildwood-Part 3 by Dr F W Boreham

A series on the Lost Sheep published in the Australian Baptist, 23 June, 1954

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Lost Sheep, Lost Coin | Northstar Church

Let nobody conclude that, because his sheep strayed, there is something particularly vicious about it. The threefold parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son, was unfolded to show that the things that get lost are by no means the worst things in the world. The sheep that strayed possessed a spice of originality – an originality of which the ninety and nine were destitute. It was the least sheepish of all the sheep. They followed the crowd; it mapped out a course of its own. They passed by a gap in the hedge without curiosity and without investigation, it looked through – and went through – and became separated from the rest. It’s very intelligence – the exploratory intelligence, that almost approximated to genius – was its undoing.

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