1 “Go and labor today,” ‘tis the Master’s command,
And there’s work to be done upon ev’ry hand,
For the rich and the poor, for the great and the small;
Let no idlers be found: to the work, one and all.
Chorus:
Upon the King’s bus’ness are we,
Upon the King’s bus’ness are we;
Let us labor and pray, winning souls while we may,
For upon the King’s bus’ness are we.
2 With a passion for souls and a love for the lost,
We would seek them today, whatsoever it cost;
For the harvest is great and the lab’rers are few,
And the work is entrusted to me and to you. [Chorus]
3 On our right and our left, ev’rywhere they are seen,
As they once thronged the way of the blest Nazarene;
Our commission is plain, we must go in his stead,
And must tell of the blood which for sinners was shed. [Chorus]
4 As ambassadors here for our Savior and Lord
We must hasten away with the life-giving word,
Lest for want of the reapers the harvest should waste,
And because the King’s bus’ness requireth haste. [Chorus]
Source: Sunday School Voices, No.2 #145
Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."
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