Statesmen here your pattern see,
Be found employ’d like him,
Men of power and dignity
Your precious time redeem;
Talk with prophets on the road,
Apostles your companions own,
Search the oracles of God,
And draw his blessing down!
Statesman, here your pattern see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was sitting in his chariot, and reading Isaiah the prophet.’—[Acts 8,] v. 28.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 227.
Publishing: Public Domain