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In the Vineyard of the King

There's a call for willing workers from the King of kings above

Author: James Rowe (1918)
Tune: [There's a call for willing workers from the King of kings above]
Published in 2 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There’s a call for will­ing work­ers
From the King of kings above,
And we an­swer Him with lov­ing hearts to­day.
For He free­ly died that sin­ners
Might be lift­ed by His love,
And, re­joic­ing, go along the shin­ing way.

Refrain:
Faithful ser­vice where He needs us
Is what we in­tend to give,
And with voic­es glad His prais­es we will sing;
In the bright­ness of His pre­sence,
For His glo­ry we will live,
Faithful ser­vants in the vine­yard of the King.

2 Sin is ev­ery­where abound­ing,
And His need of us is great,
For He wants the lost and sad to trust His love.
So for Je­sus we will la­bor,
On our Sav­ior we will wait,
Pointing lost ones to the mer­cy seat above. [Refrain]

3 We will show our love for Je­sus
Wheresoever we may be,
Till the or­der comes to lay our bur­dens down,
For we want to sing His prais­es
Through the glad eter­ni­ty,
And re­ceive from Him the ev­er­last­ing crown. [Refrain]


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16213

Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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 >

Text Information

First Line: There's a call for willing workers from the King of kings above
Title: In the Vineyard of the King
Author: James Rowe (1918)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Faithful service where He needs us is what we intend to give
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #16213
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  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

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