THE ONE YEAR ILLUSTRATIONS CLUB

ONE WOMAN WROTE: I AGREE THAT TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE I ALWAYS LOOK THINNER WHEN I STAND BESIDE HIM TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE WHEN IT’S COLD; HE GETS TO LIGHT THE FIRE TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE WHEN THERE'S A SPIDER IN THE HOUSE I DONT HAVE TO KILL IT TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE WHEN THE PRINCIPAL CALLS THEY'RE “HIS KIDS” TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE WHEN I LOOSE MY TEMPER IT’S HIS FAULT, TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE I CAN’T SCRATCH MY OWN BACK TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE I HAVE THE GIFT OF SPENDING AND HE HAS THE GIFT OF EARNING BUT BEST OF ALL TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE; BECAUSE HE PICKS ME UP, WHEN I FALL!

Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they couldn't get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they can't jump back again, and the shepherd hears them bleating in distress. They may be there for days, until they have eaten all the grass. The shepherd will wait until they are so faint they cannot stand, and then they will put a rope around him, and he will go over and pull that sheep up out of the jaws of death. "Why don't they go down there when the sheep first gets there?" I asked. "Ah!" He said, "they are so very foolish they would dash right over the precipice and be killed if they did!" And that is the way with men; they won't go back to God till they have no friends and have lost everything. If you are a wanderer I tell you that the Good Shepherd will bring...