GHS 62 : Go, Labour On Lyrics
GHS 62, “Go, Labour On,” is a hymn of bare, honest encouragement for Christian workers who are not receiving recognition, appreciation, or visible results. Written by Horatius Bonar, the hymn does not pretend the work is glamorous or that people will notice. Men heed thee not, love thee not, praise thee not. The earthly loss may be real. But against that reality, the hymn sets two countering truths: first, the loss is heavenly gain; and second, the Master praises, which makes the question of what men think feel irrelevant by comparison.
The final stanza draws the worker’s eye to the coming of the Bridegroom as the definitive end of the toil. This hymn appears as number 62 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa.
Hymn Lyrics – GHS 62: Go, Labour On
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Go, labour on, spend, and be spent, Thy joy to do the Father’s will; It is the way the Master went, Should not the servant tread it still?
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Go, labour on; ’tis not for nought, Thy earthly loss is heav’nly gain. Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not, The Master praises — what are men?
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Men die in darkness at your side, Without a hope to cheer the tomb: Take up the torch, and wave it wide, The torch that lights time’s thickest gloom.
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Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice, For toil comes rest, for exile home; Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom’s voice, The midnight peal, “Behold, I come!”
