Men who never care for God,
Never for his worship care,
Count as lost the gifts bestow’d
On th’ external house of prayer:
Yet our Lord the nard receives,
Author of religion pure,
Yet the precedent he leaves
Shall from age to age endure.
Men who never care for God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They had indignation saying, To what purpose is this waste?’—[Matt. 26,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 397.
Publishing: Public Domain