Did not each soul throughout the isle

Verse 1
Did not each soul throughout the isle
(While Jesus’ fervent messenger
Labour’d with unremitted toil)
Glad tidings of his Saviour hear?
And might they not their Lord embrace,
And freely all be saved by grace?

Verse 2
The word of grace and truth and power
Empty could not return or void;
And when his ministry was o’re,
And when, no more for Christ employ’d,
The parting saint his charge resign’d,
Surely he left his Lord behind.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘After three months we departed.’—[Acts 28,] v. 11." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 433.
Publishing: Public Domain