WHAT THE SHEPHERD KNOWS.
AUNT RUTH sat in the chimney corner. It was a cold, snowy day, and the children had come in from a walk, and said it was bitter.
They gathered close to the fire, and all seemed inclined to stop there, rather than seek for employment or amusement.
"The fields looked so bleak," said Rose, warming her hands for the twentieth time. "We saw a shepherd leading home his sheep, Auntie!" said Jean.
"Did you? How interesting! Not driving them, then?"
"No, that was what I noticed and I thought you'd perhaps have a twilight talk over that?"
Jean smiled as she said it, and Aunt Ruth smiled too.
"So you are beginning to look-out for spiritual lessons from everyday things?"
"I like that sort of lesson," said Jean, "so much better than geography and history!"
"Ah! But we cannot properly learn the spiritual, unless we are in touch with Christ in the everyday things!"