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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

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

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O source divine and life of all

Topic: God/His Being and Perfections

Writer: <no first name given> Sterling

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 30

Page Number: 020, 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!