The poor I to the rich prefer,
If with thine eyes I see;
To bear thy Spirit’s character
The poor are chose by Thee:
The poor in every age and place
Thou dost, O God, approve
To mark with thy distinguish’d grace,
T’ inrich with faith and love.
The poor I to the rich prefer
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto a woman that was a widow.'—[Luke 4,] v. 26.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 90.
Publishing: Public Domain