Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: A charge to keep I have (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: A charge to keep I have

Topic: Christian/Work

Writer: Charles Wesley

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: SM

Tune: Laban (Stop)

Hymn Number: 382

Page Number: 126, 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 fulfill,

O may it all my powers engage

To do my Master's will!



Arm me with jealous care,

As in thy sight to live;

And O thy servant, Lord, prepare

A strict account to give!



Help me to watch and pray,

And on thyself rely,

Assured, if I my trust betray,

I shall forever die.