Who wealth possesses here,
And is by wealth possest,
Can never in his sight appear
By whom the poor are blest:
His riches he injoys,
On them for help relies,
And loses for terrestrial toys
A kingdom in the skies.
Who wealth possesses here
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.'—[Luke 18,] v. 25.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 172.
Publishing: Public Domain