Joyful Service by Richard Arnold Greene

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1903

Joyful Service

By Richard Arnold Greene

O BLESSED Master, who didst work With never flagging zeal, And not a call didst ever shirk Where thou wouldst bless or heal, Teach us to follow in thy ways Of loving helpfulness; Help us to work through all our days Our brothers’ lives to bless.

Like thee who soughtest out the lost, Them to thy fold to bring, Help us, thine aliens tempest-tossed, To save for thee, our King. Help us, thy followers confessed, Who lag or turn aside, From selfish ease for thee to wrest, Who for our life hast died.

O Master, weary is the world, With wretchedness and sin; With banner of thy cross unfurled, We’d bring thy kingdom in. Help us to magnify thy name, And ever loyal be, Despising worldly scorn and shame, Through trial true to thee.

Thou, for each day, canst give the grace Thy will for us to do, Till we shall serve before thy face, In gladness through and through. We, with thy faithful Servant, Lord, Whose honored name we bear, Would seek no loftier reward Than thine own work to share.

—Richard Arnold Greene, in N. Y. Observer.