the owner, not the sheep, who is anxious. The “lostness” of the sinner, as emphasized in these parables is, primarily, God’s loss. It is a safeguard against theological error of the pharisaic type to remember that God loves men, even sinful men, and is anxious over them. The pictures of anxious search disclose the fact of God’s love for us, and that that love is personal and settles upon individuals. The ninety-nine others can none of them fill the place of the hundredth because each has his own