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SDAH 455

Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea!

Text

1
Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea!

2
We nay not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.

3
But warm, so tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has still its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.

4
The healing of His seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life’s throng and press,
And we are whole again.

5
Through Him the first fond prayers are said,
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His name.

6
O Lord and Master of us all:
Whate’er our names or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine!

Hymn Info

Biblical Reference
(a) Jer 31:3 (b) Rom 10:6, 7 (c) John 19:23; Matt 14:36 (e) Eph 4:6

Author
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Hymn Tune
SERENITY

Metrical Number
C.M.

Arranged
from William V. Wallace (1812-1865)

Hymn Score

Piano Accompaniment

Notes

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