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Go, Labor On
II Corinthians 12:15
CRASSELIUS | Same-Tune Hymns | Bible Passage
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Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 |
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Musikalisches Handbuch, 1690 |
Go, labor on; spend, and be spent,
Thy joy to do the Father's will;
It is the way the Master went;
Should not the servant tread it still?
Go, labor on; 'tis not for naught;
Thy earthly loss is heav'nly gain;
Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not,
The Master praises, what are men?
Go, labor on, while yet 'tis day;
The world's dark night is hast'ning on;
Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away;
It is not thus that souls are won.
Men die in darkness at thy side,
Without a hope to cheer the tomb;
Take up the torch and wave it wide,
The torch that lights time's thickest gloom.
Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice;
For toil comes rest, for exile home;
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice,
The midnight peal, "Behold, I come!"
OTHER HYMNS with the SAME TUNE:
• This Day, at Thy Creating Word William W. How, 1823-1897
BIBLE PASSAGE:
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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