Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: A charge to keep I have (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: A charge to keep I have

Topic: Activities

Writer: Charles Wesley

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: SM

Tune: Laban (Stop)

Hymn Number: 432

Page Number: 149, 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 pow'rs 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,

Assur'd if I my trust betray,

I shall forever die.