The New Sabbath School Hosanna ‎#66a

66a. To our dear Sabbath-school there ought many to come

1 To our dear Sabbath-school there ought many to come,
Who spend Sunday wandering or trifling at home;
I'll try to bring one, or I'll try to bring two;
Yes, all that I can I'm determined to do.
God meant all the people who live in this place,
To hear of his goodness, and join in his praise;
So I'll try to bring one, or I'll try to bring two:
Yes, all that I can I'm determined to do.

2 Let me think: are there none of the dear ones at home,
The large, or the little, who never have come?
Oh, I'll beg and I'll coax, try for one, try for two:
Yes, all that I can I'm determined to do.
My cousins and playmates, who live in this street,
I'll ask them to come, the next time that we meet;
Who knows but among them I'll get one or two?
For all that I can I'm determined to do.

2 Out there in the lot that I pass every day,
How many spend Sunday in frolic or play!
If I could but get one of these boys, now, or two,
To come here next Sabbath, would good it might do?
Perhaps up to heaven some day I may go:
What glory and blessedness then I shall know;
But I want in that glory that many may share,
That one, two, yes, all I can take, may be there.

Text Information

• First Line: To our dear Sabbath-school there ought many to come
• Publication Date: 1870
• Notes: Tune for 66 and 363 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)

Tune Information

• Name: RECRUITING HYMN
• Arranger: E. Roberts
• Key: E Major