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SERVICE (Webster)

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lorin Webster, 1857-? Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 55365 54433 21235

The Toil of Brain, or Heart, or Hand

Author: Thomas W. Freckleton Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics: 1. The toil of brain, or heart, or hand, Is man’s appointed lot; He who God’s call can understand, Will work and murmur not. Toil is no thorny crown of pain, Bound round man’s brow for sin; True souls, from it, all strength may gain, High manliness may win. 2. O God! Who workest hitherto, Working in all we see, Fain would we be, and bear, and do, As best it pleaseth Thee. Where’er Thou sendest we will go, Nor any question ask, And what Thou biddest we will do, Whatever be the task. 3. Our skill of hand, and strength of limb, Are not our own, but Thine; We link them to the work of Him Who made all life divine! Our brother-friend, Thy holy Son, Shared all our lot and strife; And nobly will our work be done, If molded by His life. Used With Tune: SERVICE Text Sources: Horder's Congregational Hymnal, 1874

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The toil of brain, or heart, or hand

Author: Thomas W. Freckleton Hymnal: The Methodist Hymnal #414 (1905) Languages: English Tune Title: SERVICE

The Toil of Brain, or Heart, or Hand

Author: Thomas W. Freckleton Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6509 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1. The toil of brain, or heart, or hand, Is man’s appointed lot; He who God’s call can understand, Will work and murmur not. Toil is no thorny crown of pain, Bound round man’s brow for sin; True souls, from it, all strength may gain, High manliness may win. 2. O God! Who workest hitherto, Working in all we see, Fain would we be, and bear, and do, As best it pleaseth Thee. Where’er Thou sendest we will go, Nor any question ask, And what Thou biddest we will do, Whatever be the task. 3. Our skill of hand, and strength of limb, Are not our own, but Thine; We link them to the work of Him Who made all life divine! Our brother-friend, Thy holy Son, Shared all our lot and strife; And nobly will our work be done, If molded by His life. Languages: English Tune Title: SERVICE

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Thomas W. Freckelton

1827 - 1903 Person Name: Thomas W. Freckleton Author of "The Toil of Brain, or Heart, or Hand" in The Cyber Hymnal Freckelton, Thomas Wesley, b. 1827. Minister of Unity Church, Islington. His hymn, "The toil of brain, or heart, or hand" (Christian Service), is in J. P. Hopp’s Collection, 1877 and in Horder's Congregational Hymnal, 1884. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)