Always do your very best for Christ

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Always do your very best for Christ

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [Always do your very best for Christ]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Always do your very best for Christ the Savior King,
Make your service true, glad his work to do;
Willing hands and loyal heart with full allegiance bring,
Think how much he did for you.

Refrain:
Always do your very best!
Always do your very best!
Busy day and night,
Work with all your might;
Always do your best for Jesus!

2 Break away from ev’rything to heed the Master’s call,
Though the day be long, fill it full of song;
Just a little while to toil for him, the Lord of all,
Hasten forth to conquer wrong. [Refrain]

3 Always do your very best for One whose love you know,
Like a hero stand, make your service grand;
Weary not, but honor him in ev’ry place you go,
Life and soul at his command. [Refrain]

Source: His Worthy Praise #53

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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