 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns - 1851 - 798 pages
...thine, The joy of angels know. 570 s. M. For diligence and watehfulness. 1 CHARGE to keep I have, AA God to glorify ; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. To serve the present age, My calling to fulfil,— 0 may it all my powers engage, To do my Master's... | |
 | 1852 - 402 pages
...to soar, Far from the sphere of mortal joys, That I may love thee more. SM Christian Watchfulness. 1 A CHARGE to keep I have, A God to glorify ; A never-dying...To serve the present age, My calling to fulfill,— Oh ! may it all my powers engage To do my Master's will. 3 Arm me with jealous care, As in thy sight... | |
 | Collection, Edmund KELL - 1852 - 106 pages
...triumph thou dost gain, Makes more sweet thy coming rest. 163. SMC WESLEY. The Christian charge. 1 A CHARGE to keep I have, A GOD to glorify ; A never-dying...sky : — 2 To serve the present age, My calling to fulfil ; 0 may it all my powers engage To do my Father's will. 3 Arm me with jealous care, As in thy... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1852 - 808 pages
...And all who know that love of thine, The joy of angels know. 570 SM Far diligence and watehfulness. A CHARGE to keep I have, A God to glorify ; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. To serve the present age, My calling to fulfil, — O may it all my powers engage, To do my Master's... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1852 - 674 pages
...sovereign good Can claim his highest love. 463 SMC WESLEY. B»atcJ)fnjj, JPrajer, ana $emt>trati«. 1 A CHARGE to keep I have, A God to glorify ; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky ; To serve the present age, My calling to fulfil : O, may it all my powers engage To do my Master's... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1852 - 396 pages
...take ?" " Any one—this one, if you like. Mamma likes it very much. I was looking it over to-day." A charge to keep I have— A God to glorify ; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. "There now," said Ellen,—"what is a charge?" Alice read the first line, and paused. " Do not you... | |
 | 1864 - 556 pages
...of death. Here is a sweet pretty hymn for you to learn by heart, and often say to yourselves — " A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify ; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. " From youth to hoary age, My calling to fulfil ; Oh ! may it all my powers engage, To do my Master's... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...let me take of Thee; Spring Thou up within my heart! Rise to all eternity! 40 1740 A CHARGE TO KEEP To serve the present age, 5 My calling to fulfill; O may it all my powers engage, To do my Master's... | |
 | Chicago Association for Child Study and Parent Education - Child development - 1928 - 366 pages
...alive in us. We were devoted to another idea. Methodists or not, we could sing with Charles Wesley, A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. This outlook tended in many cases to morbid and sentimental exaggeration, but in general it expanded... | |
 | Grover Cleveland Loud - Evangelistic work - 1928 - 430 pages
...Awakening was indeed the leaven of American independence— ^^H| CHAPTER VII THE WESLEY AN APOSTLES A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. CHARLES WESLEY. BORN in the revival of religion it initiated among the English-speaking peoples and... | |
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