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He goes to speak the words of life To souls by error tossed: And bear the gospel’s joyful sound To lands in darkness lost— To speak his Master’s glorious works, His grace and power proclaim, And teach untutored savages To breathe Messiah’s name. And O, the rich reward that waits A work of grace like this! A life of love, a death of peace, A Heaven of endless bliss! Earth’s proudest, noblest honours, fall Far, far below the prize He gains, who claims this work his own— His glory never dies!
He goes to speak the words of life To souls by error tossed: And bear the gospel’s joyful sound To lands in darkness lost— To speak his Master’s glorious works, His grace and power proclaim, And teach untutored savages To breathe Messiah’s name. And O, the rich reward that waits A work of grace like this! A life of love, a death of peace, A Heaven of endless bliss! Earth’s proudest, noblest honours, fall Far, far below the prize He gains, who claims this work his own— His glory never dies!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- S. D. Patterson (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 395 · printed citation: S. D. Patterson · subject: MISSIONARIES
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