Truth will not be suppressed

Truth will not be supprest:
Our faith by works is shown,
Our Saviour openly confest
By all who Christ have known:
Christians as lamps appear,
Light to the world we give;
And if our words they will not hear,
They must behold us live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?’—[Mark 4,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 475.
Publishing: Public Domain