“ONE MORE DAY'S WORK FOR JESUS.”
The writer of this hymn was Miss Anna Warner, one of the well-known “Wetherell Sisters,” joint authors of The Wide World, Queechy, and a numerous succession of healthful romances very popular in the middle and later years of the last century. Her own pen name is “Amy Lothrop,” under which she has published many religious poems, hymns and other varieties of literary work. She was born in 1820, at Martlaer, West Point, N.Y., where she still resides.
One more day's work for Jesus,
One less of life for me:
But heaven is nearer,
And Christ is dearer
Than yesterday to me.
His love and light
Fill all my soul tonight.
Refrain:—
One more day's work for Jesus, (ter)
One less of life for me.
The hymn has five stanzas all expressing the gentle fervor of an active piety loving service: