By wisdom meek, and patient pain,
By labour of unwearied love,
Give us our houshold foes to gain;
Or if we first from earth remove,
Yet grant our heart’s extreme desire,
And save them, save them as by fire!
By wisdom meek, and patient pain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "For Our Unconverted Relations." Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind (Bristol: E. Farley, 1758). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 6 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 135.
Publishing: Public Domain