Mark 6:5: True ministers of gospel grace

True ministers of gospel grace,
Detach'd from all the things below,
The cross and poverty embrace,
After the Lamb's apostles go;
And partners of the Crucified,
They nothing know or seek beside.

Strangers to every priestly vice
The world they neither fear nor love,
They hoard their treasure in the skies.
Fix their desire on things above,
They nothing have, yet all possess.
And fill the earth with heavenly peace.

But where, alas, may such be found,
Themselves to Christ who wholly give,
Spread the good news to all around,
And only for their Saviour live.
And glad at last their lives lay down
To gain an apostolic crown I