A Charge To Keep I Have (Old Meter Hymn) ( Rev. Timothy Flemming) 

We need to go back to those kind of songs it felt like we had more Jesus and more love for one another those was the days.

This is the old southern church on display here when I was a child growing up in the sixties and seventies! My Lord, it brings chills down my spine to hear this amazing song done in this fashion. Many will not understand that this is the old meter hymn. It is meant to be done in this fashion just like this!!!

Y’all talking about back In the 50’s and 60’s??? We STILL do this every Sunday!!! 🙌🏾

My mom favorite song. I always kept it in my phone just for her. Every time I seen her I would ask her if she wanted to hear it and she said yes. She always closed her eyes while it played. Up until her last days while bed ridden I played for her. Even at her funeral it was sung. This version will always be a part of me.#CancerSucks#MissHerSoMuch

What church use to be....no drums, no piano just hymns and foot pats on the floor.

I have been looking for someone on RU-vid that sang this song as I remember it when I was a child. I have been trying to find it for months now and have been looking in all the wrong places. Thank you for having this song on the tube. I've finally found what I've been looking for. Beautiful!

This songs sends chills through me. It reminds me of my grandmother's church where they would sing this song at Wednesday night prayer meetings. They could sing this one song for 15 minutes. I didn't understand it at the time. But, now....

It's not Sunday Morning church Devotion Service without "A Charge To Keep" I know you all know what I mean lol...

This literally brings tears to my eyes! Where has the old church gone? I grew up with this kind of church! Forgive me...

" Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 15:58

My Granddaddy use to be killing this at watch night service!!

My 9 day old great nephew had heart surgery today and he doing good. Praise God! Please ever one pray for him. Thanks.

I can see my grandmother in her kitchen singing this song.

When people were singing these songs, they stood against racial injustice, cross burning and all kind of malicious hatred. Yet they stood and believed God. Now a days with our up beat music and trendy gospel we cant even stand for someone to look at us funny before we leave God

They still sing hymns like this way in Savannah Georgia it's food for the soul it will keep you going all week their are some Minster's still sing hymns

That's my Daddy, granddaddy song and he brought it.it brings tears to my eyes Everytime I hear it.im 45 now and he passed away in 92 when I was 17

I'm from Alabama and usually hear it this way, but I've heard it the other way. This is my favorite hymn also, so powerful.

Yes yes......my grandfather Frank Newton used to sing this every Sunday morning before going to church.

Only a black soul can sound like this...

Recently I studied the lyrics to this song.I am a Missionary.I have a charge to keep.My calling is to do My Master's Will.My life is worthless if I am not carrying out His will.

There are many contemporary hymns that are great, but I pray we don't lose the magnificence, sincerity and artistry of these old meter hymns.

He took me back home with this song. Thank you.

@Speezerina You betta say that!!! The old church had that anointing and the hymns...Whew!!! Can't even speak/form a coherent sentence about it. As a child I use to cry to hymns/songs like this. Rev. Flemming sounds just like a deacon at my old church. Living in Atlanta, it is hard to find a church that holds true to "old church" roots! This type of devotion moves me more than this generation/new era of worship and praise. BRING DEVOTION BACK!

This is my favorite song in all the world. It is a personal testimony of mine. I also like verses three and four. Verse four tells me I have eternal life, it says I shall ever die. I have come to understand why, how and when all this came about. I thank Almighty God for Jesus. I thank Jesus for volunteering. I appreciate u-tube for saving these old metered hymns.

This is my favorite hymn I am asking God and the Holy Spirit to empower me to sing it

This is some good stuff. I am afraid the art of singing these meter hymns will be a lost art. I pray that I wrong on this matter. May God bless those great heralders of the meter hymns.

I have a inspiration! to tell you about and his name is Jesus! Mercy and Grace this Throne was made possibly by his blood, Listen closely The Throne of Mercy will be put away! soon and there will be no more Mercy or Grace. so don't ask for Mercy or Grace for there will be none . But there will be a replacement for Mercy and Grace and it is called Final Judgement, Wakefield will strike the dividing line, Gabriel will blow his trumpet. The book of life will be Opened Will Jesus Read Your Name?

The tears. When I listen to this, I think about my granny. God rests her soul. #07032020 🦢🕊☁️⛅️🦋🌱

I’m a teenager and have been so fascinated by old church music . Its so real and genuine , his soul is singing and it brings tears to my eyes and moves me . I love going to church with my Tt and Grandma back in Mississippi , its the only time that I hear singing and praising like this . Whenever I’m troubled I just turn to these songs to keep me going

My Goodness this takes me wayyy back. Down here in Alabama, the Deacon would go to the front Pew and bend down on his knees with the Bible and sing this Hymn and thecongregation will call and response. Thanks for taking us back down Memory Lane :)

A sermon, a prayer in a song from the soul.

one of my favorite hymns my grandma use to sang it all the time when we were in the kitchen cookin n sit in the front pews in church n rock n wave her hand she really insteeled this song within me growing up before she passed R.I.P love you are more then tremendously missed.

This blessed me tonight.

my soul loves these old hymns, originating from my strong beautiful ancestors..........

HALLELUJAH! Oh how I am taken back to the devotion before services during my childhood in church. The Deacons would be on their knees and pray. It is ingrained in me, the fabric of my life from the 50's & 60's. The memories abound!

Yes indeed my Lordy lordy lordy and Hymn that Rev. T. Flemings our neighborhood family friend in Macon, Ga. The Fountains!!!

We need this back in our school systems!!! In Florida and All over the Country

I’m back here in 2024 🙌🙌🙌 yes lord

Talk about touching the THRON!

I can hear my grandma singing this song now.

Lyrics: A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify, A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. To serve the present age, My calling to fulfill: O may it all my powers engage To do my Master's will! Arm me with jealous care, As in Thy sight to live; And O Thy servant, Lord, prepare A strict account to give! Help me to watch and pray, And on Thyself rely, Assured if I my trust betray, I shall forever die.

Wonderful it gives life to my soul

regardless if I am christian or not this song brings tears to my eyes I was was raised by people born in the early 1900's and this reminds me of all the good things they taught me about farming and worshiping 1 God I will never forget what they taught me.

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”― Mahatma Gandhi Behave Like a Christian Romans 12:9-21 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”[a] says the Lord. 20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”[b] 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. . Amen, Will

This is music from The Most High God! YAHUAH!

POWERFUL music!!!

HAIL THE MOST HIGH!

That's my PASTOR!!! This song touch me so deep that I have had to listen to it on days when I need hope that we will be alright!! Thank you Rev. Flemming!!

Praise God...

This is how my uncle willie would call a alter call. I love this hymn.

My grandma used to sing this song, I believe it was her favorite, brings back sooooo many fond memories of her, a goooooood grandma!

one of my favorite hymns

The African American culture adding a bit of their salt to the glory of the gospel!

Hearing this song brought tears to my eyes this morning. It took me back to the time when I was a child growing up. There was a woman in our church who could make the entire congregation start praising God when she sang it. I had to become a grown woman to fully appreciate the lyrics and what they mean. This version is beautiful. Thanks for posting it. God bless you!

I Pastor in Alabama, and they don't sang it like this, but I'm form south Georgia or Albany, GA and we song it like this.

My grandmother's church use to sing this, but I was to young to know the name of it, but the song stuck with me. Since I could not remember the name of it, I would sing "what a friend we have in Jesus" as the melody of "a charge to keep". lol! Then I met this woman from Georgia, and told her that I was trying to find a song that my grandmother's church use to sing. I do not remember the words to the song, but I remember the humming. When I hum the song to her, she told the name of the song. I was so happy, because i have been looking for this song for more than 30 years.

I can still hear as a lil girl in Mississippi my uncle dead and gone singing this...62 yrs old and I still sings these hymns...loves to sings while cleaning, seems I could sing better.....🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽😀😀😀😀

When we are young life has not begun yet, so the songs are really testimonies. And we are young we don't have many yet. Things in life make you pay attention to God and All His Glory. Age changes things we hear and things we do. I tell my son when we grow up, we have lived on both sides of the tracks. And, that makes us pay attention to songs like this. I love it when we moan the devil don't know what we moaning about. Glory Glory

Most amazing song in english with feeling---this is THE example of spanish flamenco in the english language. Flamenco is a fusion of all the cultures that have so far existed in southern spain. People say its very jewish, or very moorish or very arabic or very gypsy.....the beautiful part of this confusion is the fact that many agree it expresses music-of-soul in a few human cultures. This song allows me to relate to them!

Grew up on this type of singing...Lawd can feel this here deep down in the soul😇

The Preacher's Anthem! This should be sung at the installation and funeral of every preacher/pastor.

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To all the christians keep this type of music alive for all of us please

This is the BEST one

im from Albany Ga too and this is how my family sings at the "lil Church" out in oakfield Ga during family gatherings and funerals

The deacons to open up Sunday morning service (Devotion) w/ this @ my church every Sunday w/o fail! I mean just like this! Now we just have praise and worship... not saying n e thing wrong w/ praise and worship, i jus wish sum times we would go back to stuff like this...:-)

Yes!

I'm having church at3;42 am march3.20019 ...... i have church every day with these songs

AMEN AMEN

He Truly is a Mental Preaching Healing Power Force. He has always blessed my soul.

Jesus bless the real men and women of God withhis everlasting holiness

I no longer practice any white supremacist, colonial religions, but I love the old music of the southern Black Baptist churches. This is the African in us. His voice touched my soul.

What hating devil checked disliked? THIS IS A MASTERPIECE!!!!!

Thank you for sharing this old school gospel hymn. It reminds me of my childhood growing up in the south. Have a great weekend.

I. Can Feel His Soul.......PEACE

Truly blessed my spirit. Is he still singing this at church because I live down the street and will run in the church.

I love these old hymns. Contemporary music is good, but it can't touch the old hymns.

Praise Him! This is so great. Why? Why don't we hear this anymore? And to the persons who disliked this. Come on man.

omg this song makes me sad but yet so happy at the same time!!! i just lost the love of my life(my grandfather) and this was his favorite song. he was a deacon and lead it every sunday morning during devotion. and he used to laugh at me and my sister b/c we always kept and saying who is charles, lmbo!!! we always thought they was saying hey charles, but now we know it was "a charge". so i truly thank you for posting this, it bring back very great and beautiful memories!!!!! Rip: Aaron Cotton

What a powerful anointing, takes me straight into the presence of God!

I love these meter hymns. Does anyone know the difference between a short meter and a long meter hymn? I've always wondered.

When things in life gets crazy around me I play this song to settle me down. It reminds me of times going to church as a young child with my grandparents and allows me to refocus and puts life in perspective.

Ole Time religion and also my family, neighborhood family friend!!! You just better teach Preach THAT Speak Reach One!!; AMEN Rev. Timothy Flemming Sr. Macons own💯🙏🙌

I have to do devotional at the church for Revival and I was ask to sing this song. I sure do thank you for this song. There are many singing it. But I got it better with this version.

Gospel Reading for Tuesday, July 14, 2020 ~ Matthew 25:14-30 "For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away..."

My father Pastor Theodore Thomas, Rice Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Dublin GA ..could line this song..

LORD have mercy song for your soul JESUS hear here voice please LORD help us in a dieing world my kids my grandkids wayne please guide us LORD In JESUS name i ask and pray and ask thank you AMEN

Sounds just like Granddad (riffs & all). He took his calling seriously! He would tape record himself & practice til he felt he had it right.....He was the original family member with the gift that was passed down thru the generations.🙌🏾🎹🎶

St Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Texarkana,Tx. My pop was a deacon and I remember him practicing this on Saturday night getting ready to put down on Sunday morning. It was a more simple time then. Those were the days.

All the elders in my home church are gone; the pastor is pushing 100. I’m not even sure he’s still preaching or not. If I went back today…..Idk what I’d find. But I hope they at least kept these lined hymns going.

WOW---took me right back to Zion Hill First Baptist. LOVE THIS PRAISE!

Jesus bless the real men and women of God withhis everlasting holiness

A great version. I wish it was on one of Reverend Fleming Sr.'s albums on Apple Music.

thats the way we should go back to worshiping God!! I love this man!!

Reminds me. When my pappy use to sing

🙏🏿🙌🏿♥️ Thank you, Father...

This makes me miss my grandparents!!!!

This is sho nuff Dr. Watts!!! Yes suh!!

Oh this song brings back my church up bringing and my dearest grammy.

GOD BLESS YOU