In an old German city there is a sight that attracts every traveler as he passes through and brings out a very urgent and curious inquiry from him. Away up on the peaked roofs of one of these old German houses, if you look up you will find a marble statue of a lamb carved and lifted up. A traveler passing through that village two or three years ago inquired of an old resident what it could mean and he said: "There is a curious story connected with it. When the first owner of this house was building it, he was working away up just where you see that object. Suddenly slipping, losing his balance, he fell from the roof and would have been dashed to pieces except from a strange fact. Just at that moment his pet lamb happened to be on the green grass, and he fell with all his weight upon the lamb. It was crushed, but when he rose, he himself was unharmed and unscratched, with not a bone broken, and not a bruise received. He found his lamb lying there in its blood, crushed beneath the weight of the fallen master. This is the reason why he reared this statue of the lamb that it might be there, a perpetual memorial of the fact that his life had been saved by the intervention of this innocent being." --Dr. Gordon
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