Waiting for Jesus

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Waiting for Jesus, and working while I wait

Author: Mary E. Servoss
Tune: [Waiting for Jesus, and working while I wait]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Waiting for Jesus, and working while I wait;
His lab’rers they are few,
So I will work with an earnest, loving heart,
And hands that are kind and true.

Refrain:
Waiting for Jesus,
And working while I wait;
Surely my heart is blest;
Waiting for Jesus, and working while I wait,
And then going home to rest.

2 Waiting for Jesus, and working while I wait;
Sowing on hill and plain;
Reaping with care all the fruit of earnest toil,
A harvest of golden grain. [Refrain]

3 Waiting for Jesus, and working while I wait;
What though the hours seem long;
Greater the harvest I then may garner in,
And sweeter the harvest-song. [Refrain]

Source: The Helper in Sacred Song: for Sunday-schools, churches, and devotional services #151

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Author: Mary E. Servoss

Servoss, M. E. Hymns by this writer are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881. (1) “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice" (Joy in the Redeemer); and (2) "When the storms of life are raging" (Refuge in God). Another, "'Tis Jesus when the burdened heart" (Jesus, the Sinner's Friend), is in the Sunday School Union Voice of Praise, 1887. Miss Servoss was born at Schenectady, near New York. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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