O Master! when Thou callest

O Master! when Thou callest.  Sarah Geraldina Stock* (1838-1898). This missionary hymn was published in the Church of England Zenana Society’s periodical, India’s Women. It was first sung at the Valedictory Service of the Society on 2 October 1888, to say farewell to the missionaries going overseas (cf. ‘The tender light of home behind’*, sung a year earlier at the same meeting). It was published in Eight Missionary Hymns and Poems (Church Missionary Society, 1889), and printed in Stock’s Life Abundant, and other poems (1890), with ‘when’ in line 1 in italics, preceded by a quotation: ‘‘‘The Master is come, and calleth for thee’’. - John xi. 28’.  It was included in Lady Victoria...