{Go Labor on!
by
Horatius Bonar, }1843
Ps 126:5-
TRURO-Thomas John Williams, Psalmodia Evangelica,
1789
WELTON-Henri Abraham Cesar Malan
ERNAN-Lowell Mason
QUEBEC-Henry Williams Baker
ANGEL'S SONG-Orlando Gibbons
KINGSLEY-George Kingsley
MISSIONARY CHANT-Heinrich Christopher Zeuner
Go, Labor on!
(or Go, Labor on! Spend and Be Spent!)
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! 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 cry, "Behold, I come!"