A faithful minister
Will not discourse in vain,
A moment linger, or defer
Attending souls to gain:
Soon as his work he sees,
He to his work applies,
And preaches Christ, the sinner’s Peace,
And draws us to the skies.
A faithful minister
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I came as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what cause ye have sent for me.’—[Acts 10,] v. 29.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 337.
Publishing: Public Domain