12 So Send I You to Labor

So send I you to labor unrewarded, to serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown, To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing, So send I you to toil for me alone.

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So send I you to bind the bruised and broken, o'er wand'ring souls to work, to weep, to wake, To bear the burdens of a world aweary, So send I you to suffer for my sake.

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So send I you to loneliness and longing, with heart ahung'ring for the loved and known, Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one, So send I you to know my love alone.

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So send I you to leave your life's ambition, to die to dear desire, selfwill resign, To labor long and love where men revile you, So send I you to lose your life in mine.

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So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred, to eyes made blind because they will not see, To spend, tho' it be blood, to spend and spare not, So send I you to taste of Calvary.

'As the Father hath sent me, so send I you.'

© 1954, John W Peterson, Used by Permission CCLI song #666560 Clarkson’s Original written in 1936, published in Toronto’s “The Evangelical Christian” 1939