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Text:Your duty let the apostle show
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:CARRBORO
Composer:Timothy E. Kimbrough

54. Your duty let the apostle show

1 Your duty let th'apostle show;
ye ought, ye ought to labor so,
in Jesus' cause employed,
your calling's works at times pursue,
and keep th'apostle Paul in view,
and use your hands for God.

2 Work for the weak, and sick, and poor,
raiment and food for them procure,
and mindful of God's Word,
enjoy the blessedness to give,
lay out your gettings to relieve
the members of your Lord.

3 Your labor which proceeds from love,
Jesus shall graciously approve,
with full felicity,
with brightest crowns your loan repay,
and tell you in that joyful day
"Ye did it unto Me."

Text Information
First Line: Your duty let th' apostle show
Title: Your duty let the apostle show
Author: Charles Wesley
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Topic: Discipleship; Justice; Ministry with the poor (1 more...)
Source: MS Acts, from The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990)
Tune Information
Name: CARRBORO
Composer: Timothy E. Kimbrough
Key: D Major
Copyright: © 1996 General Board of Global Ministries



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