[The] servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Matthew 22:10
Words: Fanny Crosby, in the Westminster Sabbath School Hymnal, edited by John W. Dulles & Theodore F. Seward (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1883), number 124.
Music: George C. Stebbins (🔊 pdf nwc).
Gather them in! for yet there is room
At the feast that the King has spread;
O gather them in! let His house be filled,
And the hungry and poor be fed.
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Out in the highway, out in the byway,
Out in the dark paths of sin,
Go forth, go forth, with a loving heart,
And gather the wanderers in!
Gather them in! for yet there is room;
But our hearts—how they throb with pain;
To think of the many who slight the call
That may never be heard again.
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Gather them in! for yet there is room;
’Tis a message from God above;
O gather them into the fold of grace,
And the arms of the Savior’s love.
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