More and Better Work for Jesus

More and better work for Jesus, Is the cry we make today

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Published in 5 hymnals

Representative Text

1 "More and better work for Jesus!"
This the plea we make today;
While the world in sin is lying,
Shall we not His call obey?

Refrain:
"More and better work for Jesus!"
This the motto we would bear;
"More and better work for Jesus!"
This our earnest plea and pray'r.

2 "More and better work for Jesus!"
Shall He not our utmost claim?
Dare we, by a meager service,
Bring reproach to His dear name? [Refrain]

3 "More and better work for Jesus!"
More and better, year by year;
Till a darkened world shall know Him,
And His kingdom shall appear. [Refrain]

Source: Choice Gospel Hymns: a collection of over three hundred hymns for all occasions of Christian work and worship #111

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: More and better work for Jesus, Is the cry we make today
Title: More and Better Work for Jesus
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Language: English
Refrain First Line: More and better work for Jesus
Notes: Text is based on Jessie Pounds' text "More and better work for Jesus, Is the cry we make today." Now Public Domain
Copyright: Public Domain

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Text

Choice Gospel Hymns #111

Fillmores' Gospel Songs for Young People's Meetings, Prayer Meetings, Revival Meetings, and Sunday School #d81

Fillmores' Missionary Songs for Misionary Societies. Rev. #d51

Glad Tidings for Sunday Schools, Revival Meetings #d77

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Gospel Songs and Hymns No. 1 #65

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