Hymn – The Love of God is Greater Far – 31 January 2023, Anno Domini (In the Year of our Lord)
W HO shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . (Romans 8:35-39) This is one of the most beautifully expressive hymns in the annals of hymnary. Both lyrics and tune are the authorship of Mr. Frederick M. Lehman around the year 1917. Though ...