Whoe’er the heavenly kingdom preach,
Which always will endure,
They still an healing doctrine teach,
And dying spirits cure;
Evince their mission from above
By this authentic sign,
Their gospel on believers prove
The saving power Divine.
Whoe’er the heavenly kingdom preach
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.'—[Luke 9,] v. 2.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 108.
Publishing: Public Domain