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A Song for the Poor: Hymns by Charles Wesley
Hymns by Charles Wesley, Singer's Edition
30 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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June 25, 2019
A very small collection of Charles Wesley’s most pointed hymns on the subject of poverty.
Ye pastors hired who undertake
The aweful ministry
For lucre or ambition’s sake
A nobler pattern see!
Who greedily your pay receive,
And adding cure to cure
In splendid ease and pleasures live
By pillaging the poor.
Of your abundant store
You may a few relieve,
But all to feed the poor
You cannot, cannot give,
Houses and lands for Christ forego
Or live as Jesus lived below.
“Ye shall be perfect” here below,
He spoke it, and it must be so;
But first he said, “Be poor;
Hunger and thirst, repent, and grieve,
In humble, meek obedience live,
and labor, and endure.”
Ye pastors hired who undertake
The aweful ministry
For lucre or ambition’s sake
A nobler pattern see!
Who greedily your pay receive,
And adding cure to cure
In splendid ease and pleasures live
By pillaging the poor.
Of your abundant store
You may a few relieve,
But all to feed the poor
You cannot, cannot give,
Houses and lands for Christ forego
Or live as Jesus lived below.
“Ye shall be perfect” here below,
He spoke it, and it must be so;
But first he said, “Be poor;
Hunger and thirst, repent, and grieve,
In humble, meek obedience live,
and labor, and endure.”
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