With generous industry he strove

Verse 1
With generous industry he strove
To propagate the faith and love
Of his redeeming Lord;
Servant of all he labour’d on,
Fixt to receive from Christ alone
His infinite reward.

Verse 2
How shall his zeal in judgment rise
’Gainst those who only riches prize,
And mock the Spirit’s call!
Right-reverend thieves and robbers they,
Who eagerly accept the pay,
But never work at all!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he reasoned in the synagogues every sabbath day, and persuaded the Jews and Greeks.’—[Acts 18,] v. 4." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 382-83.
Publishing: Public Domain