Bid Them Go Labor Today

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Out in the market place idle ones stand

Author: John R. Clements (1900)
Tune: [Out in the market place idle ones]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Out in the market-place idle ones stand,
Bid them go labor today;
Jesus wants workers to heed his commands,
Bid them go labor today;
Call them to follow wherever he leads,
Tell them he’s mighty, he’ll meet all their needs
Pay will be given if faithful their deeds,
Bid them go labor today.

2 Many, so many stand thoughtlessly by,
Bid them go labor today;
Perishing ones they can save if they’ll try,
Bid them go labor today;
While there are duties that ought to be done,
While there are souls that just now should be won,
Why will the servants so idly look on?
Bid them go labor today.

3 Some have in ease all their youthful hours spent,
Bid them go labor today;
Idleness never can bring sweet content,
Bid them go labor today;
Now white the fields of the harvest we see,
Someone must labor if sav’d it shall be,
Who then will answering say, “Lord, send me,
Gladly I’ll labor today.”

Source: Songs for Work and Worship #38

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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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