Workman of God! O lose not heart

Workman of God! O lose not heart. Frederick William Faber* (1814-1863). The hymn that begins with this line is a selection of verses from a hymn of 19 stanzas in Faber’s Jesus and Mary: or, Catholic Hymns for Singing and Reading (1849). The hymn was entitled ‘The Right Must Win’. It began ‘Oh it is hard to work for God’, and this has been used as the first line of the hymn in some books (with 'O' rather than 'Oh'), such as the Scottish Church Hymnary (1898) and BCH (1933). Most modern books began at stanza 11. Thereafter hymnbooks used a variety of stanzas to make a five- or six-stanza hymn. In Britain RCH used 11, 12, 2, 8, 14, and 19, as above; MHB 11, 12, 8, 14 and 19; CP 11, 2, 8, 12...