Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove

Give me the faith which can re­move

And sink the mount­ain to a plain;

Give me the child­like pray­ing love

Which longs to build Thy house again;

Thy love

let it my heart ov­er­pow­er

And all my sim­ple soul de­vour.

I want an ev­en strong de­sire

I want a calm­ly fer­vent zeal

To save poor souls out of the fire

To snatch them from the verge of hell

And turn them to a par­don­ing God

And quench the brands in Je­sus’ blood.

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 Sav­ior known;

Fully on these my mis­sion prove

And on­ly breathe

to breathe Thy love.

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 sin­ner’s 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 the Shep­herd died.