Those sacred hands on sinners laid

Verse 1
Those sacred hands on sinners laid
Had oft the Holy Ghost convey’d,
And special wonders done,
Yet labour’d hard for needful food
That you who serve the church of God
May in his footsteps run.

Verse 2
Those callous hands extended see,
Nor count it strange, like Paul, to be
Neglected, or forsook:
Whate’er yourselves or household need,
Rejoice to earn your daily bread,
And still to Jesus look.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Yea, you yourselves know that these hands have ministred unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.’—[Acts 20,] v. 34." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 379.
Publishing: Public Domain