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O LOVE OF GOD
Lyrics:

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

Refrain:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints' and angels' song.

When hoary time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God's love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam's race—
The saints' and angels' song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

CHORUS

Verse 3 was penciled on the wall of a narrow room in an insane asylum by a man said to have been demented. The profound lines were discovered when they laid him in his coffin.

23 COMMENTS

  1. These songs are so beautiful. I am listening to them in honor of my friend who passed a few months ago.  She introduced them to me.

  2. thank you for these old timesongs they take my soul on a heaven bound journey that wish never to return on this world.Praise be the name of God

  3. The Lyrics of this beautiful hymn were found scrawled on a wall in a mental institution many years ago. The depth of the love of God has no boundaries!

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