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Hymns / Music :: Go, Labor On: Spend, And Be Spent

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"As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him Who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work." John 9:4

Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity
of the Cyber Hymnal Website

Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
Courtesy of Free Church of Scotland
Words: Horatius Bonar, Songs for the Wilderness, 1843.

Music: "Pentecost," William Boyd, 1864


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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
Thine earthly loss is heavenly gain;
Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not;
The Master praises: what are men?

Go, labor on! enough, while here,
If He shall praise thee, if He deign
The willing heart to mark and cheer:
No toil for Him shall be in vain.

Go, labor on while it is day:
The world's dark night is hastening on;
Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away;
It is not thus that souls are won.

Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray,
Be wise the erring soul to win;
Go forth into the world's highway,
Compel the wanderer to come in.

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!"

Information about the musical score and the Cyber Hymnal Website
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