An apostolic prelate hopes

An Apostolic prelate hopes
For no preferment here,
To every cross and burthen stoops,
The church’s minister;
He strives with unremitted pain
In Jesus steps to move,
He labours all the heights t’ attain,
And depths of humble love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be the servant of all.’—[Mark 10,] v. 44.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 36.
Publishing: Public Domain