O Lord of Life, and Love, and Power

Verse 1

O Lord of life, and love, and power, How joyful life might be If in Thy service every hour We lived and moved with Thee; If youth in all its bloom and might By Thee were sanctified, And manhood found its chief delight In working at Thy side!

Verse 2

'Tis ne'er too late, while life shall last, A new life to begin; 'Tis ne'er too late to leave the past, And break with self and sin; And we this day, both old and young, Would earnestly aspire For hearts to nobler purpose strung, And purified desire.

Verse 3

Nor for ourselves alone we plead, But for all faithful souls Who serve Thy cause by word of deed, Whose names Thy book enrols: O speed Thy work, victorious King, And give Thy workers might, That through the world Thy truth may ring, And all men see Thy light.