Having fulfill’d the charge enjoined

Having fulfill’d the charge injoin’d,
A minister of grace
Returns with ready zeal, to find
His stated work and place:
Gladly, if God appoint it so,
He deals the outward bread;
But tis his chief delight below
Poor, hungry souls to feed.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry.”—[Acts 12,] v. 25.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 273.
Publishing: Public Domain