All labor gained new dignity

1 All labor gained new dignity
Since He who all creation made
Toiled with His hands for daily bread
Right manfully.

2 No work is commonplace, if all
Be done as unto Him alone;
Life's simplest toil to Him is known,
Who knoweth all.

3 Each smallest common thing He makes
Serves Him with its minutest part;
Man only, with his wand'ring heart,
His way forsakes.

4 His service is life's highest joy,
It yields fair fruit a hundredfold,
Be this our prayer--"Not fame, nor gold,
But Thine employ!"

Amen.

Source: Worship and Service Hymnal: For Church, School, and Home #448

• MIDI file from The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #510