Heav’nward when we turn our face,
Us the world will not receive,
Tell us this is not our place,
No relief or shelter give:
Yet we no resentment feel,
Mindful of our Master’s word;
Let them hate, refuse, repel,
Treat the servants as the [their] Lord.
Heavenward when we turn our face
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Did they [They did] not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.’—[Luke 9,] v. 53.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 114.
Publishing: Public Domain