The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few.
Luke 10:2
Words: Margaret E. Sangster (1838–1912).
Music: Missionary Chant Heinrich C. Zeuner, 1832 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know when this hymn was written, or where to get a good picture of Zeuner (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
O Christ, forget not them who stand
Thy vanguard in the distant land,
In flood, in flame, in dark, in dread,
Sustain, we pray, each lifted head.
Thine is the work they strive to do,
Their foes so many, they so few,
Be with Thine own, Thy loved, who stand,
Christ’s vanguard, in the storm swept land.