Rejoice With Me

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Rejoice with me, the lost is found

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Tune: [Rejoice with me, the lost is found] (Gilmour)
Published in 7 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Rejoice with me, the lost is found!
The wandering one astray
Returns to seek his Father’s face,
With homeward steps today.

Refrain:
Rejoice with me, the lost is found!
Let heav’n reecho the joyful sound;
Rejoice with me, the lost is found!
Let heav’n reecho the joyful sound.

2 Rejoice with me, the lost is found!
The dead’s alive again;
In ev’ry heart let joy abound,
And song and gladness reign. [Refrain]

3 Rejoice with me, the lost is found!
Within His fond embrace
The Father clasps His wand’ring son—
The child of wondrous grace. [Refrain]

4 Rejoice with me, the lost is found!
With robe and signet ring,
With fond embrace and welcome kiss,
With song and banqueting. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of the Kingdom: prepared for the use of young people's societies and adapter for prayer meetings, Sunday schools and the home #58

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Author: M. Lowrie Hofford

Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jer… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Rejoice with me, the lost is found
Title:	Rejoice With Me
Author:	M. Lowrie Hofford
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Rejoice with me, the lost is found
Copyright:	Public Domain