Have You Done Your Best for Jesus?

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Have you ever done your best for Jesus

Author: Lanta Wilson Smith
Tune: [Have you ever done your best for Jesus]
Published in 6 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Have you ever done your best for Jesus?
Has your daily life the lesson taught,
That the sacrifice for sin once offered,
In your soul the saving grace has wrought?

Chorus:
For Jesus, for Jesus,
Have you ever done your best for Jesus?
In some glad, supremest hour
Have you giv’n your utmost pow’r?
Have you ever done your best for Jesus?

2 Have you ever done your best for Jesus,
Have you sung for him your sweetest song?
Have your truest, bravest words been uttered
To repel the rising tide of wrong? [Chorus]

3 Have you ever done your best for Jesus,
Is your love for him a glowing flame?
Do you tell of his complete salvation,
For the glory of his matchless name? [Chorus]

4 Have you ever done your best for Jesus,
All a consecrated life can do?
Oh, the coming of his blessed kingdom
Will depend upon the faithful few. [Chorus]

Source: Songs for Work and Worship #188

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Author: Lanta Wilson Smith

Lanta Wilson Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, and died October 19, 1939 at Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, William J. Wilson, and his wife Sedelia Follett. Her father belonged to the Maine, and later the East Maine Conferences from 1846 until 1866, when he with his family traveled in a covered wagon to the west, where he served as minister in Nebraska and Dakota. Later he returned to New England and founded out his sixty-four years in the ministry at an appointment in Hingham, Massachusetts. From her early childhood Lanta sang and played the organ in church and Sunday school wherever her father was located. When seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, where she received som… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Have you ever done your best for Jesus
Title:	Have You Done Your Best for Jesus?
Author:	Lanta Wilson Smith
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	For Jesus, for Jesus
Publication Date:	1899
Copyright:	Public Domain