This is perhaps one of my favorite hymns. The words are so powerful--how measureless and strong is the love of our God!!
The love of God is greater far than tongue of pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell;The love of God is greater far than tongue of pen can ever tell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave his Son to win;
His erring child he reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.
It shall forevermore endure the saints' and angels' song.
The verse below 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.
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.
O love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure the saints' and angels' song.
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