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CHRIST FOUNDS HIS CHURCH 443
not belong to him and he had nothing to lose if any­ thing happened to them.
Our Savior compared His Church to a sheepfold and Himself to a shepherd. He said, ''Amen, amen, I say to you. He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. The sheep hear his voice and he calleth them by name and leadeth them out. He goeth before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. But the stranger they follow not, but y from him because they know not the voice of strangers.
''The thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling and he that is not the shep­ herd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf com­ ing and leaveth the sheep and ieth, and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep. And the hireling ieth because he is a hireling and he hath no care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know Mine and Mine know Me, as the Father knoweth Me and I know the Father, and I lay down My life for My sheep. But other sheep I have that are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.''
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