The pastor call’d a soul to aid
In search of Him who lives, though dead,
Should rise, and run without delay,
And bring the mourners on their way;
Himself in haste his Lord to find
Should leave all earthly things behind,
But never from the tomb depart,
Till Christ is risen—in his heart.
The pastor call’d a soul to aid
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Peter went forth and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.’—[John 20,] v. 3." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 101.
Publishing: Public Domain