Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: A charge to keep I have (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1815

Compiler: John Thompson et al

Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace

First Line: A charge to keep I have

Topic: Supplication

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 68

Page Number: 057, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

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 pow'rs engage,

To do my Master's will.



Arm me with jealous care,

As in thy sight to live;

And thy poor servant, Lord, prepare,

A strict account to give.



Help me to watch and pray,

And on thyself rely;

Assur'd, if I my trust betray,

I shall forever die.