Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O love of God how strong and true
Topic: God/In Redemption
Writer: <no first name given> Bonar
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 110
Page Number: 068, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO 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.
O love of God, our shield and stay,
Through all the perils of our way;
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
For ever safe, for ever blest.