Scripture Verse

Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Malachi 3:10

Introduction

portrait
Charles C. Converse
(1834–1918)

Words: M. E. Dus­tin, in The Bea­con Light, ed­it­ed by John H. Ten­ney & Eli­sha A. Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1881), page 14.

Music: Charles C. Con­verse (🔊 pdf nwc). Some hym­nals show the com­pos­er as Karl Re­dan, one of Conv­erse’s pseu­do­nyms.

If you know Dus­tin’s full name, or where to get a good pho­to of her (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

What will you do with your har­vest, friend?
The piled up sheaves of rip­ened grain,
That have fed on the rays of the glo­ri­ous sun,
And drank the drops of the gra­cious rain.

Refrain

What will you do with your har­vest?
What will you do? What will you do?
Use it to hon­or the Mas­ter,
And He will hon­or you.

Will you in plea­sure and com­fort live,
And call your own what God has giv’n?
Oh, shall not from ev­ery rich har­vest field,
The first sheaf rip­ened belong to Hea­ven?

Refrain

If this you do with your har­vest, friend,
Come up with all the tithes of grain,
The pro­mise of God then will be ful­filled:
Your barns the bless­ings will not con­tain.

Refrain