Immortal Love, Forever Full
The same words as 3 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
3 words changed · 1 stanza only in SDA Hymnal #455 · tune Invitation → IMMORTAL LOVE
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Verse 1
Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea!
Verse 1
We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For Him no depths can drown.
Verse 2
We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For Him no depths can drown.
Verse 2
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has yet its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.
Verse 3
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has still its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.
Verse 3
The healing of the seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.
Verse 4
The healing of His seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.
Verse 4
Through Him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His name.
Verse 5
Through Him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His name.
Verse 5
O Lord and Master of us all:Whate'er our name or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine!
Verse 6
O Lord and Master of us all:
Whatever our name or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine!