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Faith, and hope, and love, we see

Author: Christopher Wordsworth
Tune: [Faith, and hope, and love, we see]
Published in 1 hymnal

Representative Text

1 Faith, and hope, and love, we see,
Joining hand in hand, agree,
But the greatest of the three,
And the best is love.

Chorus:
Greater than faith, greater than hope,
Is love, heav'nly love;
The greatest thing in all the world,
Is love, heav'nly love.

2 Love is kind and suffers long,
Love is meek, and thinks no wrong,
Love than death itself more strong;
Lord, give us that love. [Chorus]

3 Faith that mountains could remove,
Tongues of earth or heav'n above,
Knowledge, all things empty prove,
Without heav'nly love. [Chorus]

4 Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay,
Give us heav'nly love. [Chorus]

Source: Christian Hymns: for every purpose in worship #396

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Author: Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >

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