Goods, and time, and gifts, and grace

Verse 1
Goods, and time, and gifts, and grace,
And life is not my own,
Nothing I from Christ possess
But for his use alone:
In his family employ’d,
A steward of his mysteries I
Daily with the word of God
His people’s wants supply.

Verse 2
Master, Lord, on me confer
The tender zeal of love,
Then I shall my faithful care
Over thy church approve,
Gladly all my talents spend
With constant, wise fidelity,
Serve thy people to the end,
And live and die for Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Who then is that faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his houshold, to give them their portion of meat in due season?'—[Luke 12,] v. 42.” 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