JESUS protects Wandering Sinner by HIS Own Power.

When CHRIST finds the wandering sinner
(William Bacon Stevens, "The Parables" 1857)

"And when he finds it, he joyfully 
lays it on his shoulders and goes 
home!' Luke 15:5-6 

The parable of the Lost Sheep teaches 
us the tender care and compassion 
of our LORD towards the recovered 
wanderers. What could illustrate this 
more than the shepherd's act of laying 
the lost sheep, when he found it, 
"on his shoulders," and so bearing it home? 

When Christ finds the wandering sinner--
HE does not roughly upbraid him, HE does 
not drive him harshly before HIM, but . . . 
  throws HIS loving arms around him,
  takes him to HIS bosom,
  lays him on HIS shoulder 
where no harm can reach him, 
  protects him by HIS hands, and
  pledges the mightiness of HIS own 
power to return the wanderer to the fold of GOD.

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GraceGems has published William Bacon Stevens superb short article, 
"Sins of the Tongue".