Wonderful, infinite, matchless love

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Wonderful, infinite, matchless love

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Wonderful, infinite, matchless love]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Wonderful, infinite, matchless love,
As broad as the boundless sea;
Jesus came down from His throne above,
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me.

Refrain:
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me,
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me;
Wonderful, marvelous, how can it be?
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me.

2 Changing His vesture as white as snow,
For one of humility,
Jesus came down to this world of woe,
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me. [Refrain]

3 Born in a manger to grief and pain
And dying upon the tree,
Shamefully treated and for me slain,
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me. [Refrain]

4 Then let me look on His blessed face,
Thro’out all Eternity,
Ever adoring Him for His grace,
Stooping to save a poor sinner like me. [Refrain]

Source: The King of Glory #78

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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