Christ My Song - 548
This is the day of toil - Pressing on
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Pressing on.
1. This is the day of toil,
beneath earth's sultry noon;
this is the day of service true,
but the rest cometh soon.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us. (PDF - Midi)
2. Serve we our God in faith,
no work for him is vain;
blessed and holy is the toil,
and infinite the gain.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
3. Spend and be spent would we,
while lasteth time's brief day;
no turning back in coward fear,
no lingering by the way.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
4. No fear of man or fiend,
no shrinking from the cross;
we know what we have left behind,
we know the gain and loss.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
5. Onward we press in haste,
upward our journey still;
ours is the path the Master trod,
through good report and ill.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
6. We have forsaken all,
Jesus, to follow thee;
we counted well the cost, O Lord,
we pay it cheerfully.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
7. The way may rougher grow,
the weariness increase;
we gird our loins and hasten on,
the end, the end is peace.
Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope III, 1878, 62-64.