O Love of God, how strong and true

O love of God, how strong and true. Horatius Bonar* (1808-1889). First published in Bonar’s Hymns of Faith and Hope, Second Series (1861), with the title ‘The Love of God’. It had ten 4-line stanzas: O love of God, how strong and true!Eternal and yet ever new,Uncomprehended and unbought,Beyond all knowledge and all thought. O love of God, how deep and great!Far deeper than man’s deepest hate;Self-fed, self-kindled like the light,Changeless, eternal, infinite. O heavenly love, how precious still,In days of weariness and ill!In nights of pain and helplessness,To heal, to comfort, and to bless. O wide-embracing, wondrous love,We read thee in the sky above,We read thee in the earth below,In...