Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: O source divine and life of all (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O source divine and life of all

Topic: God/Goodness

Writer: John Sterling

Composer: Beethoven

Meter: LM

Tune: Germany

Hymn Number: 110

Page Number: 043, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O SOURCE divine, and life of all,

The fount of being's wondrous sea,

Thy depth would every heart appall,

That saw not love supreme in thee.



We shrink before thy vast abyss,

Where worlds on worlds eternal brood;

We know thee truly but in this,

That thou bestowest all our good.



And so, 'mid boundless time and space,

O grant us still in thee to dwell;

And through the ceaseless web to trace

Thy presence working all things well.