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Free same-meter accompaniment for O Love of God, How Strong and True (Horatius Bonar): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1O love of God, how strong and true!
- Eternal, and yet ever new;
- Uncomprehended and unbought,
- Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
- 2O heav'nly love, how precious still,
- In days of weariness and ill,
- In nights of pain and helplessness,
- To heal, to comfort, and to bless!
- 3O wide-embracing, wondrous love!
- We read thee in the sky above,
- We read thee in the earth below,
- In seas that swell, and streams that flow.
- 4We read thee best in Him who came
- To bear for us the cross of shame;
- Sent by the Father from on high,
- Our life to live, our death to die.
- 5We read thy pow'r to bless and save,
- E'en in the darkness of the grave;
- Still more in resurrection light
- We read the fullness of thy might.
- 6O love of God, our shield and stay
- Thro' all the perils of our way!
- Eternal love, in thee we rest,
- For ever safe, forever blest.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the O Love of God, How Strong and True page.
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