Pray for the Erring

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1876

Pray for the Erring.

Has thy brother gone astray— Have dark clouds obscured his way, Causing him to stumble? Pray. Prayer may lift the stricken up; Prayer may give the hopeless hope. Prayer may win thy brother back To the straight and narrow track. Prayer will move the mighty arm That alone can shield from harm.

Has thy sister gone astray? Suffer not thy heart to say Hard, reproachful things, but pray. Thou may’st well give prayers and tears, Not of moments, but of years, One poor struggling soul to aid, In its hour of direst need. For thy sister gone astray Pray, in tender pity, pray.

Has a Christian gone astray? ’Tis thy brother; do not say Words of condemnation; pray. Had’st thou been as sorely tried, Thou had’st wandered far more wide, Pray, with meekest charity— Pray, with purest fervency— Pray; his soul cannot be lost And thy heart not rue the cost.

’Tis his hour of sorest need; Show thyself a friend indeed, For him with the Saviour plead. Pray that God’s eternal arm May deliver him from harm. Pray. For him the Saviour bled. Shall that blood in vain be shed? Bear him to the mercy-seat, Plead for him at Jesus’ feet. —Sabbath Recorder.