Introduction
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), Volume 2, number 812.
Music: Sweet Hour William B. Bradbury, Golden Chain (New York: 1861) (🔊 pdf nwc).
(1816–1868)
Diotrephes…loveth to have preeminence among them.
3 John 9
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), Volume 2, number 812.
Music: Sweet Hour William B. Bradbury, Golden Chain (New York: 1861) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Jesus, out of our hearts remove,
The bane of self-preferring love,
Which odious in Thy saints appear,
Most odious in Thy ministers;
Let each confess with humble shame,
I nothing have, I nothing am;
The least of saints with pity see,
The chief of sinners save in me!