See the fruit of faithful prayer!
When the sacred mount we leave,
Souls prevent the pastor’s care,
Jesus eager to receive:
Sinners poor, before we seek,
Waiting for the word are found:
Then of Jesus’ love we speak:
Thousands bless the joyful sound!
See the fruit of faithful prayer!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they were come down from the hill, much people met him.'—Luke 9, v. 37.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 186.
Publishing: Public Domain