Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Go, labor on: spend and be spent, 
Your joy to do the Father's will; 
It is the way the Master went; 
Should not the servant tread it still? 

Go, labor on while it is day: 
The world's dark night is hast'ning on. 
Speed, speed your work, cast sloth away; 
It is not thus that souls are won. 

Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray; 
Be wise the erring soul to win; 
Go forth into the world's highway, 
Compel the wand'rer to come in. 

Toil on, and in your toil rejoice; 
For toil comes rest, for exile home; 
Soon shall you hear the Bridegroom's voice, 
The midnight peal, "Behold, I come."

-Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), via BA Purtle 

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