Still the faithless world deride
Jesus and his witnesses,
Us who in his power confide
In his love the dead to raise:
Still their mockings we despise,
Daily, Lord, thy wonders see,
Souls who from their sins arise
Quicken’d by a word from Thee.
Still the faithless world deride
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They laughed him to scorn.’—[Mark 5,] v. 40.” 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 490.
Publishing: Public Domain