Work, Watch, Pray

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Work when the morning shineth, work when the noonday gleams

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Tune: WORK, WATCH, PRAY
Published in 16 hymnals

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1 Work when the morning shineth,
Work when the noonday gleams,
Work when the day declineth,
Work with its latest beams.

Chorus:
Work (and) watch (and) pray,
Work for the day will soon be gone;
Work (and) watch (and) pray,
Soon will the Master come.

2 Work with a heart inspiring,
Work with a ready hand,
Work for the pure and holy,
Work for the true and grand. [Chorus]

3 Work till the summons cometh,
Join with the hosts at rest;
So shall thy days be joyful,
So shall thy nights be blest. [Chorus]

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1251

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Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Work when the morning shineth, work when the noonday gleams
Title:	Work, Watch, Pray
Author:	Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Work, watch, pray
Copyright:	Public Domain