Text: | O Love of God, How Strong and True! |
Author: | Horatiu s Bonar (1808-1889) |
Tune: | OMBERSLEY |
Composer: | William H. Gladstone (1840-1891) |
1 O love of God, how strong and true!
Eternal, and yet ever new;
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
2 O love of God, how deep and great,
Far deeper than man’s deepest hate;
Self-fed, self-kindled like the light,
Changeless, eternal, infinite.
3 We read thee best in Him who cam
To bear for us the cross of shame;
Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.
4 We read thy power to bless and save,
E’en in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light
We read the fullness of thy might.
5 O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way!
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
Forever safe, forever blest.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O love of God, how strong and true! |
Title: | O Love of God, How Strong and True! |
Author: | Horatiu s Bonar (1808-1889) (1861) |
Meter: | L.M. |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | God the Father: Love of God |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OMBERSLEY |
Composer: | William H. Gladstone (1840-1891) (1872) |
Meter: | L.M. |
Incipit: | 32144 44334 56627 |
Key: | C Major |