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

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O love of God how strong and true

Topic: God/Love of

Writer: Horatius Bonar

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: LM

Tune: Rockingham

Hymn Number: 66

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.