The Cyber Hymnal ‎#1869

1869. Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove

1. Give me the faith which can remove
And sink the mountain to a plain;
Give me the childlike praying love,
Which longs to build Thy house again;
Thy love, let it my heart overpower,
And all my simple soul devour.

2. I want an even strong desire,
I want a calmly fervent zeal,
To save poor souls out of the fire,
To snatch them from the verge of hell,
And turn them to a pardoning God,
And quench the brands in Jesus’ blood.

3. I would the precious time redeem,
And longer live for this alone,
To spend and to be spent for them
Who have not yet my Savior known;
Fully on these my mission prove,
And only breathe, to breathe Thy love.

4. My talents, gifts, and graces, Lord,
Into Thy blessed hands receive;
And let me live to preach Thy Word,
And let me to Thy glory live;
My every sacred moment spend
In publishing the sinner’s friend.

5. Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart
With boundless charity divine,
So shall I all strength exert,
And love them with a zeal like Thine,
And lead them to Thy open side,
The sheep for whom the Shepherd died.

Wesley's original first stanza:

6. O that I was as heretofore
When first sent forth in Jesu’s name.
I rush’d thro’ every open Door,
And cried to All, ‘Behold the Lamb!’
Seiz’d the poor trembling Slaves of Sin,
And forc’d the Outcasts to come in.

Text Information

• First Line: Give me the faith which can remove
• Title: Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove
• Author: Charles Wesley (1749)
• Meter: 88.88.88
• Language: English
• Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: CAREY'S SURREY
• Composer: Henry Carey (ca. 1732)
• Meter: 88.88.88
• Incipit: 54361 71432 33245
• Key: F Major
• Source: Harmony from The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 491
• Copyright: Public Domain