The Lamb Outside

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Safe are the sheep in fold

Author: Eden Reeder Latta
Tune: [Safe are the sheep in fold]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Safe are the sheep in fold,
But there’s a lamb outside!
Hunger and freezing cold
Threaten the lamb outside!

Chorus:
Are you the lamb outside,
Out of the flock’s abode?
Are you the lamb outside,
Out of the fold of God?

2 Jesus, the shepherd, knows
There is a lamb outside!
Quick to the rescue goes—
Goes to the lamb outside! [Chorus]

3 Gently his voice resounds,
Calling the lamb outside!
Oh, how his love abounds—
Love for the lamb outside! [Chorus]

4 Enter the open door,
Perishing lamb outside!
Let it be said no more,
There is a lamb outside! [Chorus]

Source: Gold Tried in the Fire: suitable for church, Sunday school, revival meetings, missionary and rescue work #62

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Author: Eden Reeder Latta

Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Safe are the sheep in fold
Title:	The Lamb Outside
Author:	Eden Reeder Latta
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Are you the lamb outside out of the flock's abode
Copyright:	Public Domain