Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Home Missions

by Lydia Huntley Sigourney

HOME MISSIONS.

Turn thee to thine own broad waters,
    Labor in thy native earth,
Call salvation's sons and daughters
    From the clime that gave thee birth.

Here are pilgrim-souls benighted,
    Here are evils to be slain,
Graces in their budding blighted,
    Spirits bound in error's chain.

Raise the Gospel's glorious streamer
    Where yon cloud-topp'd forest waves,
Follower of the meek Redeemer
    Serve him 'mid thy fathers' graves.