Servant of Christ, thy talent see,
The people’s confidence improve,
By turning their regard from Thee,
By teaching them their Saviour’s love:
To Christ in vain they cannot go;
His grace is then to sinners given,
When by thy ministry they know
The Truth, the Life, the Way to heaven.
Servant of Christ, thy talent see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He went forth again by the sea-side, and the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.’—[Mark 2,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 457.
Publishing: Public Domain