Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

The Reaper's Song

We are reapers in the field

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson
Tune: [We are reapers in the field]
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 We are reapers in the field,
Working for the King;
Busy hours their fruits now yield,
Rich reward they bring.

Refrain:
Working for the Lord of the harvest,
Bringing in the sheaves so fair,
Throwing out the weeds of sin,
Bringing only goodness in,
Toiling for him everywhere;
Working for the Lord of the harvest,
Sinful words and deeds we throw away;
Only love, and truth, and faith, and kindness,
Are the sheaves that we bring today.

2 We are reapers, young and old,
Each must do his best;
We must work with courage bold,
Striving with the rest. [Refrain]

3 We are reapers for the King
Mid his golden grain;
As we work our voices ring
In the glad refrain. [Refrain]

Source: United Praise: for use in Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies and other Church Services #18

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson

Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: We are reapers in the field
Title: The Reaper's Song
Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Working for the Lord of the harvest
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
Page Scan

Alleluia #288

Page Scan

Ideal Sunday School Hymns #145

Praise Ye #116

Page Scan

The King's Message #128

TextAudioPage Scan

United Praise #18

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.