One Is Missing

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Safe in the fold we've gathered the sheep

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [Safe in the fold we've gathered the sheep]
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 Safe in the fold we’ve gathered the sheep,
Safe from the storms on the mountain steep;
“But,” said the Shepherd, as He counted them o’er,
“Someone is missing, there should be one more.”

Refrain:
Someone is missing,
Someone is missing,
Out on the mountains dark and cold,
Who will go find him?
With love’s bands bind him?
Who’ll bring him back to the shelter of the fold?

2 “Will no one go to gather it in
My helpless one in the throes of sin?
Far from the shelter of the walls of the fold,
Out on the mountains so bleak and so cold.”

3 Weary and worn, His heart knew no rest,
‘Til He might hold it upon His breast;
So in the darkness went the Shepherd alone,
But ere the morning He brought back His own. [Refrain]

4 O can it be that you are the one
Whom He is seeking alone, alone?
Pray He may find you ere the wild storms may sweep
Out in the wild ways where perish lost sheep. [Refrain]

Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #33

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Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Safe in the fold we've gathered the sheep
Title:	One Is Missing
Author:	C. Austin Miles
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Someone is missing
Publication Date:	1914
Copyright:	Public Domain