Oft an evangelic guide
Finds his work diversified,
Useful still by all confest;
Change of labour is his rest:
Where he makes his long abode
Building up the church of God,
God by him his power displays,
Stablishes our hearts with grace.
Oft an evangelic guide
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And there they abode long time with the disciples.’—[Acts 14,] v. 28.” 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 295.
Publishing: Public Domain