The Good Shepherd / The Vanity of Fame

724 IMPROVEMENT ERA. vicissitudes of life. And quoting from Psalm LXXVIII, we gain David's synopsis of his whole life: "He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds; From following the ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob, his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, And girded them by the skillfulness of his hands." THE GOOD SHEPHERD. I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep. (Joh7i X: ji, 12.J He giveth them, he giveth them, Pastors watchful, valiant, true; He feedeth them, he feedeth them. In pastures rich, and green and new; He leadeth them, he leadeth them. By living waters, crystal, pure; In endless love, in boundless love. His mercies will endure: He saveth them, he saveth them, In realms of love, and truth and light; He robeth them, he robeth them. In garments shining, clear, and white; And crowneth them, and crowneth them, Who've run the race, the vict'ry won. Hosannas sing, Hosannas sing. To the Father and the Son. A. P. Welshman, June, 1898. Grover, Uintah Co., Wyoming.