Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Scorn not the slightest word or deed
Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 957
Page Number: 569, 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 falls fruitless, none can tell
How vast its power 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.