Howe’er the angry world oppose
We must the work of God pursue,
Where persecution’s storm arose
Publish the word with vigour new,
Assur’d, while we his will perform,
Our Lord is Master of the storm.
Howe’er the angry world oppose
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold the men are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.’—[Acts 5,] 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 189.
Publishing: Public Domain