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No Time to Be Wasted

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There's much we can do if we work with a will

Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth
Tune: [There's much we can do if we work with a will] (Excell)
Published in 16 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There’s much we can do if we work with a will,
No time to be wasted today;
The Master is ready our labors to bless,
And wages he offers to pay.

Refrain:
No time to be wasted for many the fields,
And laborers, as ever, are few;
Away to the work that is needing a hand!
So much! O so much we can do!

2 So much we can do in the sowing of seed,
Some fields are yet barren and waste,
The foe will be busy in spreading the tares,
Then go, and be working with haste. [Refrain]

3 So much we can do in the reaping of wheat,
Some fields for the harvest are white;
So much may be lost when the harvest is past,
If left to the mildew and blight. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.2 #83

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Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth

Late 19th Century Go to person page >

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First Line:	There's much we can do if we work with a will
Title:	No Time to Be Wasted
Author:	Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Ecclesiastes 9:10
(hymns)

Tune

[There's much we can do if we work with a will] (Excell)

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Media

Audio

MIDI file from Triumphant Songs No.2 #83

Page Scans

Sweeter Than All Songs: containing many new songs, a number of the popular songs of to-day, with many familiar hymns; for all occasions of Christian work and worship (1927), p.22

Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 16 of 16)

Crowns #12

Eternal Praise #66

Excellent Songs #13

Garden of Spices #136

Harp of Zion #d93

Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Bible Schools #d214

Jewels of Praise #39

New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #734

Sought-Out Songs for Christian Workers #d150

Sought-Out Songs for Christian Workers #d151

Sweeter Than All Songs #25

The Gospel in Song #20

The Great Awakening #44

The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #114

Triumphant Songs No.2 #83

Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #294

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