Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: O love of God how strong and true
Topic: Christ/Cross
Writer: Horatius Bonar
Composer: L Emerson
Meter: LM
Tune: Sessions
Hymn Number: 177
Page Number: 073, 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.