Adventist Pioneer Library

The Church — Ministry and Missions

Cast thy bread upon the waters

  • No. 1064
  • Words Anon.
  • 5 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

Cast thy bread upon the waters,Thinking not 't is thrown away;God himself saith, "Thou shalt gatherIt again some future day."

2

Cast thy bread upon the waters;Wildly though the billows roll,They but aid thee as thou toilestTruth to spread from pole to pole.

3

As the seed, by billows floatedTo some distant island lone,So to human souls benightedThat thou sowest may be borne.

4

Cast thy bread upon the waters;Why wilt thou still doubting stand?Bounteous shall God send the harvest,If thou sow with liberal hand.

5

Give them freely of thy substance;O'er his cause the Lord doth reign:Cast thy bread, and toil with patience,Thou shalt labor not in vain.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «1064» (large) in the left column of p. 365, below stanza 4 of hymn 1063, with the reference line «162, 92, 130.» in italics beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 162, 92 or 130). The first word «CAST» is set in capitals and small capitals. Stanzas 1–4 stand in the left column, stanza 5 at the head of the right column (numbering 1–5 continuous); «Anon.» in italics after stanza 5. The stanza numbers are printed without a full stop («1 Cast»); they are numbered «1.»–«5.» here. The print sets a thin space before «;», «?» and «:» («waters ;», «stand ?», «reign :»); it is closed up here. The opening and closing quotation marks of stanza 1 («" Thou … day."») and the apostrophe of «'t is» are written straight. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is 8s & 7s., like the three tunes of the reference line).

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
The Church — Ministry and Missions · No. 1064 · printed page 365
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02