GIVE ME THE FAITH

Give me the faith that can remove

and sink the mountain to a plain:

give me the child-like praying love

which longs to build Thy house again:

Thy love let it my heart o'erpower,

and all my yearning soul devour!




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 Saviour known;

and turn them to a pardoning God,

and quench the brands in Jesus' blood.




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 sinners' 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 their Shepherd died