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All Labor Gained New Dignity

All labor gained new dignity

Author: John Oxenham (1925)
Tune: ALMSGIVING
Published in 10 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 All labor gained new dignity
Since He who all creation made
Toiled with His hands for daily bread
Right manfully.

2 No work is commonplace, if all
Be done as unto Him alone;
Life's simplest toil to Him is known,
Who knoweth all.

3 Each smallest common thing He makes
Serves Him with its minutest part;
Man only, with his wand'ring heart,
His way forsakes.

4 His service is life's highest joy,
It yields fair fruit a hundredfold,
Be this our prayer--"Not fame, nor gold,
But Thine employ!"

Amen.

Source: Worship and Service Hymnal: For Church, School, and Home #448

Author: John Oxenham

John Oxenham is a pseudonym for William Arthur Dunkerley, and is used as the name authority by the Library of Congress.  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: All labor gained new dignity
Title: All Labor Gained New Dignity
Author: John Oxenham (1925)
Meter: 8.8.8.4
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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