When the stumbling-block is gone

Verse 1
When the stumbling-block is gone,
Envy and contentious pride,
Then the word doth swiftly run,
Then the church is multiplied:
When the Christians all agree,
Priests themselves in troops submit,
Those that nail’d Him to the tree,
Fall, and kiss his bleeding feet.

Verse 2
O that crouds in this our day
Might the Crucified receive,
Priests the gospel-truth obey,
Humbly in their Lord believe!
Jesus, fill them with thy grace,
Thee thy church shall then adore,
With thy murtherers confess
Miracles are never o’re.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.’—[Acts 6,] v. 7.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 308. Verse 1 was 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 198.
Publishing: Public Domain