Into Our Hands
The name Ruth Johnson Carruth may not be one you readily recognize. Mrs. Carruth was married to a man named Roy Carruth who had been wounded in WWI. Roy Carruth preached in several small congregations of our Lord’s church during his lifetime. Mrs. Ruth was a public school teacher for most of her life. Sometime, around the middle of the last century, while her husband was serving as an Elder for the East Paradise church of Christ in Vernon, TX she wrote the words to a song we sing.
Into our hands the gospel is given,
Into our hands is given the light,
Haste let us carry God’s precious message,
Guiding the erring back to the right.
As Jesus said on His way to the home of Zacchaeus, “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10).