Living to dispense Thy grace

Living to dispense thy grace
A life of toil and care,
Never may I quit my place
Thro’ slackness or despair;
Labouring with mine utmost power,
Thy servant at the gospel feast
Find me at my latest hour,
And give me then to rest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.’—[Luke 12,] v. 43.” 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