Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove

[apreacherboy]

I am trying very hard to find all the major hymns by Charles Wesley, so some of the ones I'll put up are being put up more because he wrote them than because they say much about William Jesse. That being said, the last verse of this one is particularly potent.


Give me the faith which can remove and sink the mountain to a plain;

Give me the child-like praying love, which longs to build they house again;

Thy love, let it my heart o’er power, and all my simple soul devour.

I would the precious time redeem, and longer live for this alone,

To spend and to be spent for them who have not yet my Savior known;

Fully on these my mission prove, and only breathe, to breathe thy love.

My talents, gifts, and graces, Lord, onto thy blessed hands receive;

And let me live to preach thy word, and let me to thy glory live;

My every sacred moment spend in publishing the sinner’s Friend.

Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart with boundless charity divine,

So shall I all my strength exert, and love them with a zeal like thine,

And lead them to thy open side, the sheep for whom the Shepherd died.
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