The Seventy are sent forth
Mission of the Seventy.
(The Gospel History, Section 85)
Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come. And he said unto them, The harvest is plenteous, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.
The Seventy are sent forth
(The Saviour of the World, Vol VI Book I Poem X)
“Come ye apart,” saith Christ, “to yonder glade;
Consider those commands upon you laid:”
They gathered round Him as the Lord had said:
And, two by two, He sent before His face
Those Seventy, detached to shew His grace,
To carry words from Him to every place;
To cry,—“Prepare the way, the King’s at hand!
Now come we in advance at His command,
That ready at His coming ye may stand!”
They’d heard Him teaching men these many days,
They knew His words of wisdom, gracious ways,
Nor need He teach them how to shew His praise:
Teaching in manners did the Lord impart,
Neglecting nought, He shewed the seemly art
Of meet behaviour in house, street, and mart.
“My children, see, the fields are thick with corn;
The golden grain stands ready for that morn
When, ‘Go ye forth to reap!’ the cry shall warn:
“Plenteous the harvest but the labourers few;
Pray ye the Lord to send good men and true
To gather in the grain while skies are blue!”
St. Luke x. 1, 2.
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