Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name…truly I tell you, will never lose his reward.
Mark 9:41
Words: Gertrude T. Clark, in Sunshine: Songs for Sunday Schools, edited by Charles H. Gabriel (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1895), number 7.
Music: William A. Ogden (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Clark (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels), or a better one of Ogden,
There’s work to do for the Master now!
To each one He doth call:
Go labor in My vineyard ye,
For there is work for all!
Even a cup of water,
If given in His name,
Hath its reward most surely,
And God will bless the same.
Refrain
Then work for the Master, work today!
Go labor faithfully while you may.
So many souls in the darkness are,
That ne’er of Christ have heard;
Go show to them the light of truth,
As found in God’s own Word;
Guide thou the weary pilgrim,
Lest by the way He fall;
Haste with the word of comfort,
For there is work for all.
Refrain
If but a brotherly smile is shown,
Or but a helpful word,
The angels round the throne of God
Will by the power be stirred;
Then may we use our talents,
Tho’ they be few and small;
Waste not the precious moments,
For there is work for all.
Refrain