Wie viel Schafe wandern!

Author: Ellen M. H. Gates

Gates, Ellen, née Huntingdon, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the author of several popular pieces in the American Mission and Sunday School hymn-books. Of these the following have passed from the American books into Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos:— 1. Come home, come home, you are weary at heart. Invitation. 2. I am now a child of God. Saved through Jesus. 3. I will sing you a song of that beautiful land. Concerning Heaven. 4. O the clanging bells of time. Yearning for Heaven. 5. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother. Watching and Waiting. Concerning her poem which is used as a hymn in America, "If you cannot on the ocean" (Duty), Duffield says her account of its origin is as follows:—"The lines were written upo… Go to person page >

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First Line: Wie viele Schafe wandern
Title: Wie viel Schafe wandern!
English Title: The Lost Sheep (How many sheep are straying)
Author: Ellen M. H. Gates
Language: German
Refrain First Line: O kommt, lasst uns gehn, sie finden
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gebet- und Danklieder, Nr. 2, fuer Erweckungs- und Gebetsversammlung #d273

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Gebet- und Danklieder #20

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Gemeinschafts-Lieder. 7th ed. #330

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Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft #527

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Jubeltöne #44

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Jubeltöne #44

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Rettungsjubel #185

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Sonntagsschulharfe #70

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