No; the letter profits nought

Verse 1
No; the letter profits nought
And few could that fulfil;
But we all by Jesus taught
May know and do his will,
All to all may helpful prove,
To meanest offices submit:
Thus we humbly serve in love
And wash each others feet.

Verse 2
Chiefly we thy word should keep
Thy labouring messengers,
O’re polluted sinners weep
And wash them with our tears:
But our tears must flow in vain,
Unless we pray them back to God:
Jesus, stoop to worms again,
And wash them in thy blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If I then your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.’—[John 13,] v. 14." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 257-58. Verse 1 was 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 504.
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