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<h2>GOD IN HEAVEN HATH A TREASURE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field.” Matthew 13:44</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><em>Words:</em> “P. S.,” translated from German to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_e_bevan_efs.html" target="_blank">Emma Frances Bevan</a> (1827-1909).</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Gloaming,” old ballad melody </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_g_gloaming.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>God in heaven hath a treasure, riches none may count or tell;<br>
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Hath a deep eternal pleasure, Christ, the Son, He loveth well.<br>
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God hath here on earth a treasure, none but He its price may know—<br>
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Deep, unfathomable pleasure, Christ revealed in saints below.</p>
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<p>Christ, the Light that fills the heavens, shining forth on earth beneath,<br>
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Through His Spirit freely given, Light of life ’midst shades of death;<br>
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Down from heaven’s unclouded glory God Himself the treasure brought,<br>
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Closing thus His love’s sweet story with His sweetest, deepest thought.</p>
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<p>God in tongues of fire descending, chosen vessels thus to fill<br>
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With the treasure never ending, ever spent—unfailing still.<br>
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Still unwasted, undiminished, though the days of dearth wear on,<br>
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Store eternally unfinished, fresh, as if but now begun.</p>
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<p>Earthen vessels, marred, unsightly, but the treasure as of old,<br>
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Fresh from glory, gleaming brightly, heaven’s undimmed, unchanging gold.<br>
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God’s own hand the vessel filling from the glory far above,<br>
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Longing hearts forever stilling with those riches of His love.</p>
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<p>Thus, through earthen vessels only, shining forth in ceaseless grace,<br>
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Reaching weary hearts and lonely, beams the light in Jesus’ face.<br>
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Vessels worthless, broken, bearing through the hungry ages on,<br>
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Riches given with hand unsparing, God’s great gift, His precious Son.</p>
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<p>Thus though worn, and tried, and tempted, glorious calling, saint, is thine;<br>
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Let the Lord but find thee emptied, living branch in Christ the Vine!<br>
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Vessels of the world’s despising, vessels weak, and poor, and base;<br>
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Bearing wealth God’s heart is prizing, glory from Christ’s blessèd face.</p>
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<p>Oh, to be but emptier, lowlier, mean, unnoticed, and unknown.<br>
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And to God a vessel holier, filled with Christ, and Christ alone!<br>
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Naught of earth to cloud the glory, naught of self the light to dim.<br>
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Telling forth His wondrous story, emptied—to be filled with Him.</p>
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