In
the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel is found a parable in which Jesus pictured a man with a hundred sheep who left the ninety-nine in search of one that was lost.
Daily
one may see many troubled faces, hear of many troubled lives, and it soon becomes obvious that mankind's problems frequently concern the affections: misplaced affections, misunderstood affections, unreciprocated, false, or illicit affections.
The
technological, sociological, and economic progress that has occurred in this century has brought a higher standard of living than ever before to great numbers of people throughout the world.