We All Might Do Good

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We all might do good, where we often do ill

Author: G. Linnaeus Banks
Tune: [We all might do good where we often do ill]
Published in 15 hymnals

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1 We all might do good,
Where we often do ill,
There is always the way,
if we have but the will;
Tho' it be but a word
Kindly breath'd or supprest,
It may guard off some pain
Or give peace to some breast.

2 We all might do good,
In a thousand small ways,
In forbearing to frown,
Yet yielding due praise —
In the spurning of sin,
In reproving wrong done,
And in treating but kindly
Each heart we have won.

3 We all might do good,
Whether lowly or great,
For the deed is not gauged
By the purse or estate;
If it be but a cup
Of cold water that's given,
Like "the widow's two mites,"
It is something tor Heaven.

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #139

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Author: G. Linnaeus Banks

Banks, George Linnaeus, newspaper editor and verse writer, was born at Birmingham, March 2, 1821, and died in London, May 3, 1881. His hymn, “I live far those who love me” [Work for God], in the Tonic Solfa Reporter, June, 1861, and in Daisies in the Grass, 1865 (the joint work of himself and his wife, Isabella, née Varley), p. 21, entitled "What I live for," and signed G. L. B. It is in various recent hymnals, sometimes as in Worship Song, 1905, beginning "I'd live." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) Go to person page >

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