Sent by our faithful Lord
In every place we find
Strangers dispos’d to hear the word,
And hospitably kind:
Our Lord their love repays,
While of his love we tell,
And minister the balmy grace
Their sinsick souls to heal.
Sent by our faithful Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.’—[Acts 28,] v. 7." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 432.
Publishing: Public Domain