Author:		Edith Margaret Clarkson, 1915-
Musician:		John W. Peterson, b. 1921

So send I you to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,
To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing,
So send I you to toil for Me alone.

Refrain:
"As the Father hath sent me,
So send I you."

So send I you to bind the bruised and broken,
O'er wand'ring souls to work, to weep, to wake,
To bear the burdens of a world aweary,
So send I you to suffer for My sake.

So send I you to loneliness and longing
With heart a-hung'ring for the loved and known,
Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one,
So send I you to know My love alone.

So send I you to leave your life's ambition,
To die to dear desire, self-will resign,
To labor long and love where men revile you,
So send I you to lose your life in Mine.

So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred,
To eyes made blind because they will not see,
To spend, tho' it be blood to spend and spare not,
So send I you to taste of Calvary.