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Free same-meter accompaniment for Go, labor on: spend and be spent (Horatius Bonar): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1Go, labor on, spend and be spent;
- Thy joy to do the Father's will.
- It is the way the Master went:
- Should not the servant tread it still?
- 2Go, labor on, 'tis not for naught;
- Thine earthly loss is heav'nly gain;
- Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not:
- The Master praises--what are men?
- 3Go, labor on; enough, while here,
- If He shall praise thee; if He deign
- Thy willing heart to mark and cheer,
- No toil for Him shall be in vain.
- 4Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice;
- For toil comes rest, for exile home;
- Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice,
- The midnight peal: Behold, I come!
- 5Amen.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Go, labor on: spend and be spent page.
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