Let Us Work

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On the mount exalted or in valley low

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [On the mount exalted or in valley low]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 On the mount exalted or in valley low,
In the Master’s service sweet it is to go,
Telling unto others wheresoe’er they be,
Of Jesus and his mercy full and free.

Refrain:
Let us work and watch and pray,
For the seed that we are sowing cannot die,
Let us work and watch and pray,
For the dawning of the harvest day is nigh.

2 Thro’ the night of weeping looking to the light,
Of a glorious morrow dawning clear and bright,
When the golden sunshine o’er the hills will rise,
And drive the tears of sorrow from our eyes. [Refrain]

3 Time is passing onward; there is much to do;
Shall the sun be setting ere our work is through?
Labor ev’ry moment ere the shadows fall,
For soon the time will pass beyond recall. [Refrain]

Source: The Service of Praise #95

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Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

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First Line:	On the mount exalted or in valley low
Title:	Let Us Work
Author:	C. Austin Miles
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Let us work and watch and pray
Publication Date:	1900
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.