Youth's Department

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1868

Youth's Department.

“FEED MY LAMBS.”

A little lamb, one afternoon, Had from the fold departed; The tender shepherd missed it soon, And sought it, broken-hearted.

Not all the flock that shared his love, Could from the search delay him; Nor clouds of midnight darkness move, Nor fear of suffering stay him.

But night and day he went his way, In sorrow till he found it; And when he saw it fainting lay, He clasped his arms around it.

And, closely sheltered in his breast, From every ill to save it, He took it to his home of rest, And pitied and forgave it.

And thus the Father will receive The little ones who fear him; Their pains remove, their sins forgive, And draw them gently near him.