Die Neunundneunzig

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Neunundneunzig der Schafe lagen schon

Author: Elizabeth C. Clephane; Translator: Theodor Kuebler
Tune: [There were ninety and nine that safely lay] (Sankey)
Published in 13 hymnals

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Author: Elizabeth C. Clephane

Clephane, Elizabeth Cecilia, third daughter of Andrew Clephane, Sheriff of Fife, was born at Edinburgh, June 18, 1830, and died at Bridgend House, near Melrose, Feb. 19, 1869. Her hymns appeared, almost all for the first time, in the Family Treasury, under the general title of Breathings on the Border. In publishing the first of these in the Treasury, the late Rev. W. Arnot, of Edinburgh, then editor, thus introduced them:— "These lines express the experiences, the hopes, and the longings of a young Christian lately released. Written on the very edge of this life, with the better land fully, in the view of faith, they seem to us footsteps printed on the sands of Time, where these sands touch the ocean of Eternity. These footprints of one… Go to person page >

Translator: Theodor Kuebler

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First Line:	Neunundneunzig der Schafe lagen schon
Title:	Die Neunundneunzig
English Title:	The Ninety and Nine
Author:	Elizabeth C. Clephane
Translator:	Theodor Kuebler
Language:	German
Copyright:	Public Domain