Each should the word receive
As to himself addrest;
For what my Lord to me doth give,
He gives it to the rest:
We all thro’ life’s short day
Our God should glorify;
We all are call’d to watch and pray,
For all are born to die.
Each should the word receive
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?'—[Luke 12,] v. 41.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 214.
Publishing: Public Domain