The Lord a chearful giver loves;
A chearful giver loves the Lord,
And while by works his faith he proves,
Receives an hundred-fold reward,
With joy restores what God had given,
Blest with anticipated heaven.
The Lord a chearful giver loves
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly.”—[I. Chron.] xxix. 9. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 203.
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