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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 31, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 5.

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SUPREME LOVE.

By Archbishop Trench

He might have built a palace at a word, Who sometimes had not where to lay His head; Time was when He who nourished crowds with bread Would not one meal unto Himself afford. Twelve legions girded with angelic sword Were at His back, the scorned and buffeted! He healed another's scratch; His own side bled, Side, feet, and hands with cruel piercings gored. O, wonderful the wonders left undone! And scarce less wonderful than those He wrought! O, self-restraint, passing all human thought, To have all power and be as having none! O, self-denying love, which felt alone For needs of others, never for its own! —Archbishop Trench.