A worthy labourer of the Lord
Never of his own accord
Desires our guest to be:
Nor will to invitation yield,
Till by the violence compel’d
Of fervent charity.
A worthy labourer of the Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘She constrained us.’—[Acts 16,] v. 15.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 373.
Publishing: Public Domain