We triumph in the word’s success,
Whoe’er the welcome news proclaim,
The God of our salvation bless
And magnify his precious Name;
For other souls prosperity
Joyful as for our own, we prove
The Son hath made us truly free,
And God beyond ourselves we love.
We triumph in the word’s success
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God.’—[Acts 11,] v. 18.” 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 257.
Publishing: Public Domain