Love Never Faileth

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Out in the darkness, shadowed by sin

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: POLAND (Koschat)
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 Out in the darkness, Shadow'd by sin,
Souls are in bondage, Souls we would win.
How can we win them? How show the way?
"Love never faileth," Love is the way.
"Love never faileth," Love is the way.

2 Think how the Master Came from above,
Suffer'd on Calv'ry. Breathing out love;
Think how he loves us. E'en when we stray?
We must love others, Love is his way,
We must love others, Love is his way.

3 See, they are waiting, Looking at you,
Furtively watching All that you do:
Seeming so careless, Harden'd and lost.
"Love never faileth," Count not the cost,
"Love never faileth," Count not the cost.

4 "Love never faileth," Love is pure gold;
Love is what Jesus Came to unfold.
Make us more loving, Master, we pray;
Help us remember Love is thy way,
Help us remember Love is thy way.

Source: The Golden Sheaf: a collection of choice hymns and songs especially designed for Sunday schools, loyal worker's meetings, prayer and social services (Enl. ed.) #194

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Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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