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To the Work! To the Work!

Author: Anon. Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Appears in 227 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: To the work! to the work! we are servants of God Refrain First Line: Toiling on, toiling on Topics: Book Four: Occasional Selections, Gospel Songs and Hymns; Christian Commission Spreading the Gospel Used With Tune: TO THE WORK

Go, Labor On: Spend, and Be Spent

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 440 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Go, labor on: spend and be spent Lyrics: 1 Go, labor on: spend, and be spent, Thy joy to do the Father's will: It is the way the Master went; Should not the servant tread it still? 2 Go, labor on while it is day: The world's dark night is hastening on; Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away; It is not thus that souls are won. 3 Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray, Be wise the erring soul to win; Go forth into the world's highway, Compel the wanderer to come in. Amen. Topics: Church Workers; Constancy; Discipleship; Perseverance; Purpose; Life in Christ Discipleship and Service Used With Tune: PENTECOST

The Master's Call

Author: Julia Sterling Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Behold, the Master now is calling Refrain First Line: Go forth with patience, love and kindness Lyrics: 1. Behold, the Master now is calling, For reapers brave and true; The golden harvest fields are waiting, But laborers are new. Chorus: Go forth with patience, love and kindness, And in the Master's name, The blessed news of free salvation To all the world proclaim. 2. Go forth, and rescue those that perish, Where sin and darkness reign; Go lend a helping hand to save them, And break the tempter's chain. [Chorus] 3. Go bid the poor with joy and gladness, The feast of love to share; And He, the Bread of Life Eternal, Will make them welcome there. [Chorus] 4. Go forth, the summer days are waning, Their light will soon be o'er; The solemn hour is quickly coming, When we can work no more. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Behold, the Master now is calling]

Hark the voice of Jesus crying

Author: Daniel March. D. D. Appears in 505 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 Used With Tune: JOPPA

In the vineyard of our Father

Author: Thos. MacKellar Appears in 117 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 Used With Tune: ARTHUR

Where shall my wondering soul begin?

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 51 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:31-32 Topics: Conversion and New Life Used With Tune: CAREY'S (SURREY)

Go Work in My Vineyard

Appears in 17 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: "Go work in My vineyard," there's plenty to do Topics: Work Used With Tune: [Go work in my vineyard, there's plenty to do]

Teach us, O loving heart of Christ

Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28-29 Lyrics: 1 Teach us, O loving heart of Christ, what only love can say: 'Father, forgive' and still forgive the blindness of our way. 2 Torn is the world you came to save, it bleeds from hands and side: slow is your Church to bear the scars of suffering love that died. 3 We have not found your way of peace, though lack of peace is death: we have not fed with word or bread the hungry of the earth. 4 Christ in whose hands were thrust the nails, who yet for us could pray: forgive the things we have not done, the words we do not say. Topics: Our Response to Christ In Penitence; Food and Hunger; Forgiveness; Justice and Peace; Suffering Used With Tune: KHANDALLAH

'I have a dream', a man once said

Author: Pamela J. Pettitt (b. 1954) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6.6.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28-32 Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - National Life; Justice and Peace; Remembrance Sunday; Unity of Humanity; Visons and Dreams Used With Tune: REPTON

Love's Labor

Author: Mattie Alice Long Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: We are little children Refrain First Line: Yes, we'll work, work, work Used With Tune: [We are little children]

Go Work To-day

Author: W. R. Lindsay Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Go work today; behold, the Master calleth Lyrics: 1 Go work today; behold, the Master calleth; Up and away to greet the morning light; See, in the breeze the rip’ning grain is waving; Go, while the summer days with hope are bright. Refrain: Go work today; The Master calleth now to thee; Go work today, And glorious thy reward shall be. 2 Go work today; why tarry by the wayside? Let us obey the Saviour’s earnest call; Still labor on in sunshine or in shadow, Lo, in the harvest there is work for all. [Refrain] 3 Go work today, our blessed Lord commands it, Go in His name, relying on His love; Then at the last, when all the sheaves are gathered, Sweet will the resting be with Him above. [Refrain] Topics: Work - Works Used With Tune: [Go work today; behold, the Master calleth]

Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling

Author: Will L. Thompson Meter: 11.7.11.7 with refrain Appears in 867 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:32 Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Lyrics: 1 Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me; see, on the portals he's waiting and watching, watching for you and for me. Refrain: Come home, come home; you who are weary come home; earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home! 2 Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading, pleading for you and for me? Why should we linger and heed not his mercies, mercies for you and for me? [Refrain] 3 Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, passing from you and from me; shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming, coming for you and for me. [Refrain] 4 O for the wonderful love he has promised, promised for you and for me! Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon, pardon for you and for me. [Refrain] Topics: Prevenient Grace Invitation; Affliction and Tribulation; Call to the Christian Life; Forgiveness Used With Tune: THOMPSON

I Want to Be a Worker

Author: Isaiah Baltzell Appears in 184 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: I want to be a worker for the Lord Topics: Christians Work & Service Used With Tune: [I want to be a worker for the Lord]

Come, Labor On

Appears in 71 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 Refrain First Line: Go work, go work, go work Used With Tune: [Come, labor on] Text Sources: Refrain by editors of "Heavenly Carols"

Majesty, Worship His Majesty

Author: Jack Hayford Meter: Irregular Appears in 33 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:32 Topics: The Grace of Jesus Christ In Praise of Christ; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Christ the King; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Name of; Service Music Greeting/Call to Worship Used With Tune: MAJESTY

I Dare Not Idle Stand

Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 Refrain First Line: Working for the Master Lyrics: 1 I dare not idle stand, While here on ev'ry hand The whit’ning fields declare the harvest near; A gleaner I would be, And gather, Lord, for thee, Lest I with empty hand at last appear. Working for the Master, For the home on high; A gleaner I would be, And gather, Lord, for thee, Lest I with empty hand at last appear. 2 I dare not idle stand, While over all the land Poor wand’ring souls need humble help like mine; Far brighter than the gem In monarch’s diadem, Each soul a star in Jesus’ crown may shine. Working for the Master, For the home on high; Far brighter than the gem In monarch’s diadem, Each soul a star in Jesus’ crown may shine. 3 I dare not idle stand, But at the Lord’s command For him I’ll labor on this life-short day; The eve will come at last, Day labor soon is past, Eternal rest will then my toil repay. Working for the Master, For the home on high; The eve will come at last, Day labor soon is past, Eternal rest will then my toil repay. Used With Tune: [I dare not idle stand]

Yo quiero trabajar

Author: Pedro Grado (1862-1923); Isaiah Baltzell (1832-1893) Appears in 17 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Yo quiero trabajar por el Señor Refrain First Line: Trabajar y orar en la viña Topics: La Iglesia Misión de la iglesia; The Church Mission Used With Tune: [Yo quiero trabajar por el Señor]

How Oft Have I The Spirit Grieved

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 13 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:29 Topics: The Christian Life; Christian Conversion Repentance

Who Will Go Today?

Author: F. M. D. Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Hear the Master calling now for lab'rers Refrain First Line: Who will go today, and bear the sheaves away Topics: Missionary; Work Used With Tune: [Hear the Master calling now for lab'rers]

Work for the Master

Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: 'Tis never too late to be sowing the seed Refrain First Line: Then work, yes work Used With Tune: ['Tis never too late to be sowing the seed]

The Lord’s Vineyard

Author: F. J. C. Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Go work today in the vineyard of the Lord Refrain First Line: Go work today, Go work today Lyrics: 1 Go work today in the vineyard of the Lord, Work, work today, work, work today; To those who toil he has promised a reward. Work, work today, work today; For a crown of life you may win and wear, In your father’s house there are mansions fair. Refrain: Go work today, Go work today, Go work today, Go work today. 2 Go seek the lost who have wandered from the fold, Work, work today, work, work today; In guilt and sin they perhaps are growing old, Work, work today, work today; For a word may fall or a tear may start, That will find its way to some grateful heart. [Refrain] 3 Glad news, glad news to a lowly one proclaim, Work, work today, work, work today; Good will to man, through a dying Saviour’s name, Work, work today, work today; O, the time is short, it will soon be o’er, And the night will come ye can work no more. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Go work today in the vineyard of the Lord]

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Author: Helen Kemp Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21 First Line: [Hosanna! Hosanna!] Text Sources: Songs for Life (CRC Publications, 1995)

The Master is calling for you

Author: Ruth Harmon Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Awake! for the Master is calling Lyrics: 1 Awake! for the Master is calling, Arise, and to labor away; Already the morning is breaking. Go work in the vineyard today; No time to be idle or slumber; Go forth, for the workers are few; O Christian, the Master is calling, The Master is calling for you. 2 Go train up the vines that are lying Where weeds of deep sorrow have grown; Go scatter the dew of affection Where discord and strife have been sown; No time to be idle or slumber; Go forth, for the workers are few; Back-slider, return to your duty, The Master is calling for you. 3 Hark, hear ye the song of the reapers? Go join in the soul cheering strain; Make haste, for the summer is waning, Go work in the vineyard again; No time to be idle or slumber; Go forth, for the workers are few; O sinner there’s room in the vineyard, The Master is calling for you. Used With Tune: [Awake! for the Master is calling]

Hear the Master Say

Author: Mary C. Seward Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: Hear the Master say, Go and work today Lyrics: 1 Hear the master say, “Go and work today, For the lab’rers still are few;” Shall His earnest cry pass unheeded by, When there’s work for all to do? He has need of thee, and his urgent plea Is, “The harvest now is white;” Let us quickly haste lest the sheaves lie waste, For too soon will come the night. Refrain: Hear the Master say, “Go and work today, For the lab’rers still are few;” Shall His earnest cry pass unheeded by, When there’s work for all to do? 2 Go! the hungry feed, and the weary lead To the rest of Jesus’ love; Tho' your strength be small, God is over all, With a blessing from above; Seek for souls to win from the ways of sin; Work with cheerful heart and true; And the jewels rare that have been your care, Shall at last be given to you. [Refrain] 3 Go and work today; O do not delay, For the night is coming on; And the least you do shall be blest to you, If for Jesus it is done; Tho' the seeds that fall may be few and small, They shall not be sown in vain; In the garnered sheaves, which the Lord receives, Will be found the ripened grain. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Hear the Master say, Go and work today]

Lamb of God, to Thee We Raise

Author: William Edgar Enman (1869-1950) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:23-32 Lyrics: 1 Lamb of God, to thee we raise hymns of holy love and praise for the saint and prophet born to be herald of the morn. 2 Like the morning star he rose, thine appearing to disclose; like an ensign lifted high, he declared thy kingdom nigh. 3 Filled with grace and sanctity from his blest nativity, he, the new Elias, came bearing zeal's most sacred flame. 4 Kinsman of the King divine, greatest of the prophet's line, blest forerunner of the Lord, who his praises can record? 5 Mighty preacher, by whose word souls to penitence were stirred those who long in sin had strayed then the call divine obeyed. 6 Make us, Lord, like him to be fearless witnesses for thee; faithful unto death be found, and at last by thee be crowned. Topics: John the Baptist Used With Tune: LÜBECK

Among us and before us, Lord, you stand

Author: John L. Bell, 1949- Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28-32 Topics: Assurance; Healing; Jesus Christ Redeemer Used With Tune: GATEHOUSE

Working for Jesus To-day

Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: In our dear blessed cause we are workers to-day Refrain First Line: In our cause, Blessed cause Topics: Jesus; Work; Young Peoples Societies Used With Tune: [Working for Jesus To-day]

On the Field of Work

Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: On the field of work advancing Lyrics: 1 On the field of work advancing, Sow thy seed at morning light; Cheerily the furrows turning, Labor on with all thy might; Why await the far-off future, When the work before thee lies? Thou must sow before thou reapest, Find thy rest in labor’s prize. 2 Standing still is dangerous ever, Toil is meant for Christians now; Let there be, when evening cometh, Honest sweat upon thy brow; And the Master then will greet thee, At the setting of the sun, Saying, as He pays thy wages, “Good and faithful one, well done!” Used With Tune: [On the field of work advancing] Text Sources: German

A Beggar-King Comes Riding

Author: Herman G Stuempfle Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21 First Line: [A Beggar-King Comes Riding] Text Sources: Awake Our Hearts to Praise (GIA Publications, 2000)

Done Made My Vow to the Lord

Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28-32 First Line: Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down Lyrics: Refrain: Done made my vow to the Lord, And I never will turn back, Oh, I will go, I shall go to see what the end will be. 1 Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down; See what the end will be, But still my soul is heav’nly bound, See what the end will be. (Refrain) 2 When I was a mourner just like you; See what the end will be, I prayed and prayed ’til I came through, See what the end will be. [Refrain] Topics: Funeral Sacraments; Commitment; Discipleship; Eternal Life; Grief, Sorrow; Loss; Petition, Prayer; Spirituals Used With Tune: [Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down] Text Sources: Negro Spiritual

What Have I Done for the Savior?

Author: Vie E. King Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: What have I done for the Savior Refrain First Line: What have I done for the Savior Lyrics: 1 What have I done for the Savior? I ask when the day is done; Oh, what have I done to merit The love of that mighty One? Who left the bright courts of glory To suffer and die for me; Who gave himself as a ransom, That from sin I might be free. Refrain: What have I done for the Savior, My great Redeemer and Lord? What have I done to inherit The joys of the great reward? 2 What have I done for the Savior? Whose glorious work divine Hath wrought a change so wondrous In this happy heart of mine? And whose ever blessed spirit My wandering feet shall guide; If within his saving mercy, I shall trustingly bide. [Refrain] 3 What have I done for the Savior? For all of his wond’rous love, He who has promised a mansion In yon bright heaven above? What have I done? ah! but little, Oh, nothing at all to repay For all the wonderful kindness Bestowed upon me each day. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [What have I done for the Savior]

My Elder Son, Go Work Today!

Author: Rae E. Whitney Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28-32 First Line: "My elder son, go work today Topics: Jesus Christ Teaching of; Obedience (see also Will of God); Will of God Used With Tune: SUSSEX CAROL

My Love Colors Outside the Lines

Author: Gordon Light Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:23-27 Refrain First Line: We’ll never walk on water Topics: Baptism; Children Appropriate for; Discipleship; Expanding Our Circle; Faith; Jesus Christ Life of; Jesus Christ Miracles of Used With Tune: MY LOVE COLOURS OUTSIDE THE LINES

Hay lugar en la amplia viña

Author: M. A. Lezcano; Neal A. McAulay Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 21:28 Refrain First Line: Un lugar propicio quiero donde pueda trabajar Topics: La Iglesia Misión de la iglesia; The Church Mission Used With Tune: [Hay lugar en la amplia viña]

Hosanna

Author: Gary Oliver Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21 First Line: [Hosanna] Text Sources: Songbook 3 (Hosanna!) (Integrity Music, Inc., 1989)

The Pawnbroker

Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21 First Line: [The Pawnbroker] Text Sources: Iona - Enemy of Apathy (G. I. A. Publications, 1988)

Hosanna, Son of David!

Author: G. J. Vogler, 1749-1814; J. Irving Erickson, 1914-1992 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21 Lyrics: Hosanna, son of David! Blessed be his holy name. Glory to the Son of David, who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna, hosanna. Glory to the Son of David, who comes in the name of the Lord. Glory to the Son of David, who comes in the name of the Lord. Topics: Singing God's Story Lent / Suffering and Death of Christ; German Used With Tune: [Hosanna, son of David]

Sing Hallelujah to Our God

Author: Rosemary Anne Benwell, SSJD, 1915- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21:23-32 Topics: God, maternal images; Christian Life Used With Tune: KINGSWOOD NEW

A Work for All

Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: There's a work, a work that we all may do Lyrics: 1 There’s a work, a work that we all may do, For our Saviour if we will, Then with joy, with joy let’s our task pursue, And our mission here fulfill. Refrain: There’s a work that each may do for Jesus, We may serve Him ev’ry day, We may tell His love to those who wander, We may seek the lambs astray. 2 There’s a work, a work and it must be done, If we live and strive aright, With the end in view, blest the work begun, Let us labor with our might. [Refrain] 3 There’s a cross, a cross for us each to bear, But His strength each day He’ll give, And at last a crown we in heav’n may wear, Near to Jesus let us live. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [There’s a work, a work that we all may do]

The Faithful Band

Author: W. G. H. Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: We’re a faithful little band Refrain First Line: We’re marching Lyrics: 1 We’re a faithful little band, And we’re marching to that land, That land of God on high; We will march at his command, And will reach the promised land, We will anchor by and by. Refrain: We’re marching, We’re marching to that land of God on high; Then we’ll march at God’s command, And we’ll reach the promised land, And we’ll anchor by and by. 2 The Bible’s telling me How I must a Christian be, To live at God’s right hand; Then I’ll follow its command In my journey to that land, And we’ll anchor by and by. [Refrain] 3 Then come along with me, And we’ll sail o’er life’s rough sea, To the land for which we sigh; We believe our happy band Will reach the haven land, And we’ll anchor by and by. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [We’re a faithful little band]

The Band of Workers

Author: W. G. H. Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 21:28 First Line: We are laborers in the harvest field Refrain First Line: Go work, all must work Lyrics: 1 We are laborers in the harvest field, We will work with our might today; While our Savior says there is work to do, We will bear the sheaves away. Refrain: Go work, all must work, We will work with our might today; For the wheat may fall in the woods so tall, We will bear the sheaves away. 2 Tho’ the fight be long, and our foes be strong, We will work in God’s highway; And we’ll help the weak, and will soothe the sick, This will bear the sheaves away. [Refrain] 3 Then we’ll brave the fight, for we know we’re right, And our Savior leads the way; We will sing and work, and no duty shirk, We will bear the sheaves away. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [We are laborers in the harvest field]

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