The reaper of Thy fields receives

Verse 1
The reaper of thy fields receives
In part his wages here,
Thrice happy in thy service lives,
Thy Spirit’s minister:
His heart thy peace and blessing glads,
With joy he labours on,
And every added convert adds
A jewel to his crown.

Verse 2
He gathers fruit who sinners wins,
And fruit that shall remain,
While souls redeem’d from all their sins
With him the prize obtain;
Who many turns to righteousness,
To him the grace is given,
To honour God by his success,
To gain, and people heaven.

Verse 3
The earnest of his glorious hire,
He humbly holds it fast,
Till blest with all his heart’s desire,
With joys that ever last,
When all who sow’d the gospel-word
With all the reapers meet,
And in the presence of their Lord
Behold their bliss compleat.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.’—[John 4,] v. 36." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 360.
Publishing: Public Domain