Lord, into thy harvest send

Verse 1
Lord, into thy harvest send
The men foreknown by Thee,
Men who may thy word commend
In true simplicity,
All thy written counsel tell,
As taught by wisdom from above,
Fill’d with Apostolic zeal,
With meek and lowly love.

Verse 2
Then thy watred church below
Shall flourish and increase,
More and more in numbers grow,
In faith and holiness;
Millions added to thy fold
Shall do whate’er thy laws require,
Live in Thee, like those of old,
Like those in Thee expire.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.’—[Acts 16,] v. 5.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 371.
Publishing: Public Domain