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<h2>THE LOVE OF GOD</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?&#8221; Romans 8:35</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_l_e_lehman_fm.jpg" alt="Frederick Martin Lehman (1868-1953)" width="131.333333333333" height="187.333333333333"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_l_e_lehman_fm.html" target="_blank">Frederick Martin Lehman</a>; he wrote this song in 1917 in Pasadena, California, and it was published in <em>Songs That Are Different</em>, Volume 2, 1919. The lyrics are based on the Jewish poem <em>Hadamut</em>, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany; they have been translated into at least 18 languages.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Love of God,&#8221; Frederick M. Lehman; arranged by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mays_cl.html" target="_blank">Claudia Lehman Mays</a> (the author&#8217;s daughter) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_loveofgo.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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>The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell;<br>
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell;<br>
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;<br>
His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.</p>
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<p class="refrain">O love of God, how rich and pure!<br>
How measureless and strong!<br>
It shall forevermore endure<br>
The saints&#8217; and angels&#8217; song.</p>
<p>When years of time shall pass away, and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,<br>
When men, who here refuse to pray, on rocks and hills and mountains call,<br>
God&#8217;s love so sure, shall still endure, all measureless and strong;<br>
Redeeming grace to Adam&#8217;s race&#8212;the saints&#8217; and angels&#8217; song.</p>
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<p>Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made,<br>
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade,<br>
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry.<br>
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.</p>
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