Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove

Verse 1

Give me the faith
which can remove
and sink the mountain
to a plain;

give me the childlike
praying love,
which longs to build
thy house again;

thy love, let it
my heart o’erpower,
all my simple
soul devour.

Verse 2

I would the precious
time redeem,
and longer live
for this alone,

to spend and to
be spent for them
who have not yet
my Savior known;

fully on these
my mission prove,
and only breathe,
to breathe thy love.

Verse 3

My talents, gifts,
and graces, Lord,
into thy blessed
hands receive;

and let me live
to preach thy word,
and let me to
thy glory live;

my every sacred
moment spend
in publishing
the sinner’s Friend.

Verse 4

Enlarge, inflame,
and fill my heart
with boundless
charity divine,

so shall I all
my strength exert,
and love them with
a zeal like thine,

and lead them to
thy open side,
the sheep for whom
the Shepherd died.