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Working for the King of Kings

Representative Text

1 Working, working for the blessed Master,
Keeping tones of gladness ever ringing;
Working, working, ev'ry day still faster,
Happy that sheaves we're bringing.

Refrain:
Working now for the King of all kings,
And trusting Him along the straight and the narrow way,
Happiness true to us it now brings,
We dearly love Him each day;
(We know that) He'll reward each soul that to Him clings,
And He will hear us all when we unto Him shall pray,
Working, working for the King, of glory,
O accept our labor, Lord, we pray.

2 Working, working for a leader glorious,
Just to serve our Lord bring us true pleasure;
Working, working we shall be victorious,
Jesus will grant full measure. [Refrain]

3 Working, working for the risen Savior,
Happy is His service, ever singing,
Working, working, winning grace and favor,
Trusting His love and clinging. [Refrain]

Source: Tuneful Tidings #101

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Author: J. R. Baxter

Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960) Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama. Died: January 21, 1960. Baxter grew up in De­Kalb Coun­ty, Al­a­ba­ma. In 1926, he bought part of Vir­gil Stamps’ Gos­pel mu­sic firm, which be­came the Stamps-Bax­ter Mu­sic and Print­ing Com­pa­ny, one of the most suc­cess­ful Gos­pel mu­sic pub­lish­ers of the ear­ly 20th Century. Bax­ter ran the com­pa­ny’s Chat­ta­noo­ga, Ten­nes­see, of­fice un­til Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dall­as, Tex­as, to run the main of­fice. Af­ter Bax­ter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the bus­i­ness un­til she died; it was then sold to Zon­der­van. Bax­ter was in­duct­ed in­to the South­ern Gos­pel Mus… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Working, working for the blessed Master
Title: Working for the King of Kings
Author: J. R. Baxter (1928)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: We're working for the King of kings
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tuneful Tidings #101

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