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LOST SHEEP

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 9.

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LOST SHEEP.

BY THE AUTHOR OF “YOUR MISSION.”
How many sheep are straying, Lost from the Saviour's fold, Upon the lonely mountains! They shiver with the cold, Within the tangled thickets, Where poison vines do creep, And over rocky ledges Wander the poor, lost sheep.
Oh! who will go to find them? Who, for the Saviour's sake, Will search with tireless patience Through brier and through brake? Unheeding thirst or hunger, Who still, from day to day, Will seek, as for a treasure, The sheep that go astray?
Say, will you seek to find them? From pleasant bowers of ease, Will you go forth determined To find the “least of these?” For still the Saviour calls them, And looks across the world, And still he holds wide open, The door into his fold.
How sweet 't would be at evening, If you and I could say, Good Shepherd, we've been seeking The sheep that went astray. Heart-sore and faint with hunger, We heard them making moan, And lo! we come at nightfall, Bearing them safely home.