Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Scorn not the slightest word or deed
Topic: Christian/Responsibility
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: CM
Tune: Byefield
Hymn Number: 301
Page Number: 100, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSCORN not the slightest word or deed,
Nor deem it void of power;
There's fruit in each wind-wafted seed,
That waits its natal hour.
A whispered word may touch the heart,
And call it back to life;
A look of love bid sin depart,
And still unholy strife.
No act fall fruitless; none can tell
How vast its powers may be,
Nor what results infolded dwell
Within it silently.
Work on, despair not; bring thy mite,
Nor care how small it be;
God is with all that serve the right,
The holy, true, and free.