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Hymn: O love of God how strong and true (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: O love of God how strong and true

Topic: God in Redemption

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: Hatton

Meter: LM

Tune: Duke Street

Hymn Number: 63

Page Number: 026, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O love of God, how strong and true!

Eternal and yet ever new:

Above all price, and still unbought;

Beyond all knowledge and all thought.



O wide embracing, wondrous love,

We read thee in the sky above;

We read thee in the earth below,

In seas that swell and streams that flow.



We read thee best in him who came

To bear for us the Cross of shame;

Sent by the Father from on high,

Our life to live, our death to die.