Thousands when the wealthy give

Verse 1
Thousands when the wealthy give
From their superfluity,
Christ their offering doth receive;
Doth with more complacence see
One contented to be poor,
Fed with manna from above,
One who offers all his store,
Only lives by faith and love.

Verse 2
To the actions of the great
God a mourner’s heart prefers,
One who in a des’late state
Feeds as on the widow’s tears,
For the heavenly Bridegroom sighs,
Life and all by Christ bestow’d
Rendring back in sacrifice,
Thinks he nothing gives to God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He saw also a certain poor widow, casting in thither two mites.'—Luke 21, v. 2.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 187.
Publishing: Public Domain