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

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

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.



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.