Emphasis Preaching Journal

In his wonderful book, By the Bonnie Briar Bush, Ian Maclaren tells of a brokenhearted father, Lachlan, whose daughter, Flora, left home for the big city. He struck a line through her name in the family bible, for he thought she was lost.

Marget, a neighbor woman, came over to talk one day. She said: "Waes me if our Father had blotted out oor names frae the Book o' Life when we left His hoose. But He sent His ain Son to seek us, an' a weary road He cam." Marget wrote a letter to Flora urging her to return home.