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<h2>THE NINETY AND NINE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“He rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.” Matthew 18:13</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_c_l_clephane_e.jpg" alt="Elizabeth Cecelia Douglas Clephane (1830-1869)" width="122" height="148.666666666667"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_l_clephane_ecd.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth Cecelia Douglas Clephane</a>, 1868.
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<p><em>Music:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_a_sankey_id.html" target="_blank">Ira David Sankey</a>, 1874 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_n_i_90_and_9.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td align="center" width="200"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_a_sankey_id.jpg" alt="Ira David Sankey (1840-1908)" width="133.333333333333" height="191.333333333333"><br>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of RMJC Archives Collection</span></td>
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<p class="just">Sankey spotted these lyrics in a British newspaper while on an evangelism tour in Scotland with Dwight Lyman Moody. He tore the poem from the paper, put it in his pocket, and forgot about it. Later that day, at the end of their service in Edinburgh, Moody asked Sankey for a closing song. Ira was caught somewhat by surprise, but the Holy Spirit reminded him of the poem in his pocket. He brought it out, said
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a prayer, then composed the tune as he sang. Thus was born “The Ninety and Nine.” This was Sankey’s first attempt at writing a hymn tune. Not bad for a first try!</p>
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<p>There were ninety and nine that safely lay<br>
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In the shelter of the fold.<br>
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But one was out on the hills away,<br>
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Far off from the gates of gold.<br>
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Away on the mountains wild and bare.<br>
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Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.<br>
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Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.</p>
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<p>“Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine;<br>
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Are they not enough for Thee?”<br>
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But the Shepherd made answer: “This of Mine<br>
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Has wandered away from Me;<br>
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And although the road be rough and steep,<br>
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I go to the desert to find My sheep,<br>
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I go to the desert to find My sheep.”</p>
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<p>But none of the ransomed ever knew<br>
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How deep were the waters crossed;<br>
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Nor how dark was the night the Lord passed through<br>
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Ere He found His sheep that was lost.<br>
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Out in the desert He heard its cry,<br>
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Sick and helpless and ready to die;<br>
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Sick and helpless and ready to die.</p>
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<p>“Lord, whence are those blood drops all the way<br>
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That mark out the mountain’s track?”<br>
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“They were shed for one who had gone astray<br>
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Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.”<br>
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“Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?”<br>
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“They are pierced tonight by many a thorn;<br>
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They are pierced tonight by many a thorn.”</p>
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<p>And all through the mountains, thunder riven<br>
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And up from the rocky steep,<br>
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There arose a glad cry to the gate of heaven,<br>
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“Rejoice! I have found My sheep!”<br>
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And the angels echoed around the throne,<br>
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“Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!<br>
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Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!”</p>
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