Hymn: Go, labor on
- Title: Go, Labor On
- First Line: Go, labor on
- Hymnal: The Hymnal: Revised and Enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892
- Denomination: (Protestant) Episcopal Church
- Publisher: The Century Co.
- Publication Date: 1894
Author(s)
- Author Name: Horatius Bonar
- Born: 1808
- Died: 1889
- Gender: M
Full Text
1 Go, labor on! spend and be spent! Thy joy to do the Father's will; It is the way the Master went; Should not the servant tread it still? 2 Go, labor on! 'tis not for naught; Thine earthly loss is heavenly gain; Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not; The Master praises: what are men? 3 Go, labor on! enough, while here, If He shall praise thee, if He deign Thy willing heart to mark and cheer; No toil for Him shall be in vain. 4 Go, labor on, while it is day! The world's dark night is hastening on: Speed, speed thy work! cast sloth away! It is not thus that souls are won. 5 Toil on! faint not! keep watch, and pray! Be wise the erring soul to win! Go forth into the world's highway! Compel the wanderer to come in! 6 Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice! For toil comes rest, for exile home; Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice, The midnight peal, 'Behold, I come!' Amen.