Present yourself to God as…a workman.
2 Timothy 2:15
Words: Lawrence V. Fish, in The New Canadian Hymnal (Toronto, Canada: William Briggs, 1916), number 167.
Music: Wellington (Lamplough) Edmund S. Lamplough, 1916 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Fish (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Work with all your might, boys; God demands your best!
Labor is enabling, makes the toiler blest;
Girls, too, in life’s missions, cherish great ambition!
Put your heart, and soul, and strength in all you do!
Refrain
Work, work, work with all your might!
Work, work, toil as in God’s sight!
Every task is glorious, make your life victorious;
Up and conquer, do and dare, in God’s great name!
Victories great await you in some glorious task;
Powers to win God offers all who work and ask;
Day and night unceasing strive with strength increasing;
Up and conquer, do and dare, in Heav’n’s own might!
Refrain
Dream not of the honors that surround the great;
Do the task before you—who can judge its fate?
With a courage holy and a spirit lowly,
Glorify the smallest deeds, and make them grand.
Refrain
Everything is lofty in God’s wondrous plan;
Make your influence felt, then; brave it like a man!
Great or low your calling, with a zeal enthralling,
Raise it up to heights sublime in God’s own name!
Refrain