GIVE ME THE FAITH

Give me the faith that can remove

And sink the mountain to a plain:

Give me the child-like praying love

Which longs to build Thy house again:

Thy love let it my heart O'erpower,

And all my yearning soul devour!

I would the precious time redeem,

And longer live for this alone,

To spend and to be spent for them

Who have not yet my Saviour known;

And turn them to a pardoning God,

And quench the brands in Jesus' blood.

My talents, gifts, and graces, Lord,

Into Thy blessed hands receive;

And let me live to preach Thy word;

And let me to Thy glory live;

My every sacred moment spend

In publishing the sinners' Friend.

Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart

With boundless charity divine!

So shall I all my strength exert,

And love them with a zeal like Thine;

And lead them to Thy open side,

The sheep for whom their Shepherd died