We still the old objection hear

Verse 1
We still the old objection hear,
Have any of the great, or wise,
The men of name and character
Believ’d on Him the vulgar prize?
Our Saviour to the rich unknown,
Is worshipp’d by the poor alone.

Verse 2
The poor, we joyfully confess,
His followers and disciples still,
His friends and chosen witnesses,
Who know his name, and do his will,
Who suffer for our Master’s cause,
And only glory in his cross.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him?”—[John] vii. 48. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 411. Wesley later altered this hymn in his 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.
Publishing: Public Domain