On us, O Christ, thy mission prove,
Thy full authority to heal,
The blindness of our hearts remove,
The lameness of our feeble will,
Open our faith’s obedient ear,
Our filthy, leprous nature cure,
Call us out of the sepulchre,
And preach Perfection to the poor.
On us, O Christ, thy mission prove
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The blind see, the lame walk &c.’—[Luke 7,] v. 22.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 100.
Publishing: Public Domain