SS&S 656: O gentle, sweet, and tender Love
1. O gentle, sweet, and tender Love!
Greatest and best Thou art!
Thou comest on Thine angel-wing
Straight from our Father's heart.
Spirit of love, expand Thy wings,
Brood o'er my heart to-day;
Fill me with heavenly tenderness
As now to Thee I pray.
2. God sendeth Thee, His messenger,
From His bright home above;
And surely all that is of Thee
Are His, for God is love!
3. Faith leadeth us through earthly life
Down to the gates of death:
There stays ; for where they see His face
They have no need of faith.
4. Hope cometh to the threshold fair,
But cannot pass it o'er;
For there our hopes are all fulfilled,
For ever, evermore.
5. But love goes through the pearly gates
Into the city blest,
And flies on pinions swift and sure,
Straight to our Father's breast.
SS&S 656: O gentle, sweet, and tender Love
(SS&S) Sacred Songs and Solos Hymns
1 Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;
it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
2 Praise the Lord with the harp;
make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
3 Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully, and shout for joy.
4 For the word of the Lord is right and true;
he is faithful in all he does.
5 The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love.
6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea into jars;
he puts the deep into storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the people of the world revere him.
9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
10 The Lord foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
11 But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
13 From heaven the Lord looks down
and sees all mankind;
14 from his dwelling place he watches
all who live on earth—
15 he who forms the hearts of all,
who considers everything they do.
16 No king is saved by the size of his army;
no warrior escapes by his great strength.
17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
despite all its great strength it cannot save.
18 But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
19 to deliver them from death
and keep them alive in famine.
20 We wait in hope for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
21 In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.
22 May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
even as we put our hope in you.
SS&S songs are up to 1,000 hymns and counting. For the sake of convenience, we are splitting them into hundreds. SS&S656: O gentle, sweet, and tender Love