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THE LOVE OF GOD

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 7.

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THE LOVE OF GOD.

By Eliza Scudder

Thou Grace Divine, encircling all, A soundless, shoreless sea! Wherein at last our souls must fall— O Love of God most free!
When over dizzy heights we go, One soft hand blinds our eyes, The other leads us safe and slow— O Love of God most wise!
And though we turn us from thy face, And wander wide and long, Thou hold'st us still in thine embrace, O Love of God most strong!
The saddened heart, the restless soul, The toil-worn frame and mind, Alike confess thy sweet control, O Love of God most kind!
But not alone thy care we claim, Our wayward steps to win; We know thee by a dearer name, O Love of God within!
And filled and quickened by thy breath, Our souls are strong and free To rise o'er sin and fear and death, O Love of God, to thee!
—Eliza Scudder.