4 Lo! the scene of verdure brightening, In the rising grain appear; Look again; the fields are whitening, For the harvest time is near. 970 8s & 7s. Life’s work. All around us, fair with flowers, Fields of beauty sleeping lie; All around us clarion voices Call to duty stern and high. 2 Following every voice of mercy With a trusting, loving heart; Let us in life’s earnest labor Still be sure to do our part. 3 Now, to-day, and not to-morrow, Let us work with all our might, Lest the wretched faint and perish In the coming stormy night. 4 Now, to-day, and not to-morrow, Lest, before to-morrow’s sun, We, too, mournfully departing, Shall have left our work undone. 971 8s, 7s & 4s. Freely you have received, etc. Matt. 10:8. With my substance I will honor My Redeemer and my Lord; Were ten thousand worlds my manor, All were nothing to his word: Hallelujah! Now we offer to the Lord. 2 While the heralds of salvation His abounding grace proclaim, Let his saints of every station Gladly join to spread his fame: Hallelujah! Gifts we offer to his name. 3 May his kingdom be promoted; May the world the Saviour know; Be to him these gifts devoted, For to him my all I owe: Hallelujah! Run, ye heralds to and fro. 4 Praise the Saviour, all ye nations; Praise him, all ye hosts above; Shout with joyful acclamations His divine, victorious love: Hallelujah! By this gift our love we’ll prove. 972 11s & 10s. That he who loveth God, etc. 1 John 4:21. One whom Jesus loved has truly spoken! The holier worship which God deigns to bless, Restores the lost, and heals the spirit broken, And feeds the widow and the fatherless. 2 Then, brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! For where love dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other; Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer. 3 Follow, with reverent steps, the great example Of him whose holy work was doing good; So shall the wide earth seem our Father’s temple, Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. 4 Thus shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor Of wild war music o’er the earth shall cease; Love shall tread out the baleful fires of anger, And in its ashes plant the tree of peace. 973 11s & 10s. I the Lord will hasten it, etc. Isaiah 60:22.