276. Go, Labor On!

1 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?

2 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.

3 Men die in darkness at your side,
Without a hope to cheer the tomb;
Take up the torch, and wave it wide,
The torch that lights time's thickest gloom.

4 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.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Go, labor on! spend and be spent
Title: Go, Labor On!
Author: Horatius Bonar (1843)
Meter: L. M.
Publication Date: 1957
Scripture: ;
Tune Information
Name: ERNAN
Composer: Lowell Mason (1850)
Meter: L. M.
Key: B♭ Major



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