This Is Not Your Rest

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

Gird ye for the toilsome day

Author: Sophia T. Griswold
Tune: [Gird ye for the toilsome day]
Published in 2 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Gird ye for the toilsome day,
This is not your rest,
Stay not idly by the way,
This is not your rest,
There are sorrows ye must share,
There are burdens ye must bear,
There is need of faith and prayer,
This is not your rest.

2 This, the vineyard of the Lord,
This is not your rest,
Toil and wait His just award,
This is not your rest.
Toil and ask His blessing down,
Heeding not the cold world's frown,
So shall yours be cross and crown,
This is not your rest.

3 "Work while it is call'd today,"
This is not your rest.
Win to Christ some soul astray,
This is not your rest.
Hastening at duty's call,
Leaving to the Father, all;
Blessed they who stand or fall,
This is not your rest.

Source: Joyful Songs: a choice collection of new Sunday School music #95

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Sophia T. Griswold

Sophia (Paulina) Taylor Griswold Canada/USA 1828-1903. Born in Canada, she moved to the U.S. and lived in Chicago, IL. She married Dr William R Griswold, a native of New York, and they had one daughter, Eva. She was a poet who wrote hymn lyrics for tunes composed by hymnists George Root, Philip Bliss, George Stebbins and others. She died in Chicago. John Perry Go to person page >

^ top