Ye who minister the word
You did from Christ receive,
More respected than your Lord
Can you desire to live?
Sent by him, with humble grace
The portion of your Master meet,
Find with joy your highest place
At every sinner’s feet.
Ye who minister the word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him.’—[John 13,] v. 16." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 258.
Publishing: Public Domain