The Church — Ministry and Missions

Workman of God, O lose not heart

No. 1047
Metre C. M.
Tune HUMMEL.
Words Frederick W. Faber.
Music Heinrich C. Zeuner.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 2/2
5 stanzas

Words

Workman of God, O lose not heart,But learn what God is like;And on the darkest battlefieldThou shalt know where to strike.

Thrice blest is he to whom is givenThe instinct that can tellThat God is on the field, when heIs most invisible.

Blest too is he who can divineWhere truth and justice lie,And dares to take the side that seemsWrong to man's blinded eye.

Then learn to scorn the praise of men,And learn to lose with God;For Jesus won the world through shame,And beckons thee his road.

For right is right, since God is God,And right the day must win;To doubt would be disloyalty,To falter would be sin.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHURCH—MINISTRY AND MISSIONS.»; hymn number «1047» (large, left), tune name «HUMMEL. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «HEINRICH C. ZEUNER.» at the right (capitals and small capitals; the last letters are blotted by ink in this exemplar but read «ER»). Stanza 1 is set between the staves, one text line per system, with «1.» before «Work»: «Work-man», «dark - est» and «bat - tle - field» are printed in syllables and joined here («battlefield» — the syllable hyphens do not show whether the word is a hyphenated compound). Stanzas 2–5 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the italic reference line «111, 399, 698.» (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 111, 399 or 698, all C. M.); «Frederick W. Faber.» in italics after stanza 5. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 Thrice»); they are numbered «2.»–«5.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2 and 4 of each text stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «;» («God ;») is closed up here, and the curly apostrophe is written straight («man's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Pen annotations of the exemplar (dates, «CH 443», an underline) are not part of the print and are not transcribed.