Peace with the world, how short its stay!
While each pursues his sinful way,
The restless sons of night
Must still the Saviour’s way abhor,
Infesting with perpetual war
The children of the light.
Peace with the world, how short its stay!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.’—[Acts 19,] v. 23." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 394.
Publishing: Public Domain