Attentive to his people’s needs

Attentive to his people’s needs,
A pastor tarries, or proceeds;
His journeys or abode
He regulates in every place,
As best may minister the grace,
And feed the flock of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He sent into Macedonia Timothy and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.’—[Acts 19,] v. 22." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 394.
Publishing: Public Domain