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O Love of God, how strong and true
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The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)
Metric Index
LM 
Modality
F Major 
15-Pitch Humming Index
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Author
Horatius Bonar [1808-1889] 
Composer
Vernon Griffiths [b. 1894] 
Copyright
Reprinted from New Catholic Hymnal by permission of the publishers, Faber Music Ltd. London 
Language
English 
Publication Date
1985 
Last Five Uses
• Used on Jun 24, 2018 09:30 as the Offertory Special Music at St. James', Downingtown, PA
• Used on May 18, 2014 10:00 as the Gradual Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Feb 20, 2011 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on May 17, 2009 10:00 as the Post Communion Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA 
Poem Words (Four verses)
1.
O love of God, how strong and true,
eternal and yet ever new;
uncomprehended and unbought,
beyond all knowledge and all thought.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
We read thy power to bless and save
e'en in the darkness of the grave;
still more in resurrection light
we read the fullness of thy might.
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