Show CAME TO HIM AS INSPIRATION When Mr Sankey FIrst Sang SanD the Famed F Ninety ond Nine Nino The Tho story of ot Ninety and Nine Nino the tho hymn the tho music for or which Mr Ira D Improvised In a 1 burst of deep feeling was WIM told by h Rev R Dr C B E Locke at al tho ho funeral of Mr The evangelist had found Cound nJ a little Hide poem The Tho Lost Sheep In n a Scotch newspaper so runs Dr Lockes Lockos account In the tho Brooklyn Eagle and ant hail hod clipped IL One Ono night In Edin EdInburgh burgh Mr Moody Mood asked him to sing Mr Moody had Just finished his uIs ser sermon sermon sermon mon Tho The Good Shepherd Mr had no thought of composing a now new song but no bo ho used to toll tell the tho story I As I sat at the tho organ my mr fingers fell on en A flat fiat and my m eyes oyos foil fell ll on eq that i little poem I r began to slog sitS and I 1 I sang lang the words of that poem When flen ho had bad finished Mr Mody od ody rushed down from tho the platform and asked him whore ho had found that song He Ho said It was WIS tho the most won song ho he had bad over eer heard Mr Moody was weeping Mr Sankey was weeping and the tho audience q In tears so great was the tho impression produced by b tho the song son sonI I sang san It as ns God gave It lt to mo me Mr Sankey replied He never changed n a note noto of tho song from Crom the tho time It fell from rom his lips Youths Companion i |