Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Cast thy bread upon the waters (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Cast thy bread upon the waters

Topic: Christian Benevolence

Writer: J Hanaford

Composer: Sicilian Melody

Meter: 8s and 7s

Tune: Sicily (Stop)

Hymn Number: 490

Page Number: 165, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

CAST thy bread upon the waters,
Thinking not 'tis thrown away:
God himself saith, thou shalt gather
It again some future day.


Cast thy bread upon the waters:
Wildly though the billows roll,
They but aid thee as thou toilest
Truth to spread from pole to pole.


As the seed by billows floated,
To some distant island lone,
So to human souls benighted, 
That thou flingest may be borne.


Cast thy bread upon the waters,
Why wilt thou still doubting stand?
Bounteous shall God send the harvest,
If thou sow'st with liberal hand.