Can ought we do in faith, or give
To man, for Jesu’s sake, be lost?
We shall an hundred fold receive,
Who in thy faithful promise trust;
The fruit of all our toils at last
Assur’d we are on earth to see,
Or when the days of time are past,
To find it in eternity.
Can aught we do in faith, or give
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.”—[Eccles.] xi. 1. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 358.
Publishing: Public Domain