God is not slack; if long he stay,
He surely will return at last,
And call his servants in that day
To reckon for their actions past:
What have we gain’d ourselves, or done
For others, thro’ his gifts enjoy’d,
Or how improv’d for him alone
The various graces of our God?
God is not slack; if long he stay
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘After a long time the Lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.’—[Matt. 25,] v. 19.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 387.
Publishing: Public Domain