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The LOVE of GOD is Greater Far
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The LOVE of GOD is Greater Far
by Susan Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:17 am
https://hymnstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/the-love-of-god-is-greater-far/
Quite an amazing story of how this now Christian song came to be!
Excerpt:
The text of stanzas 1 and 2 and the tune (Lehman) was composed by Frederick Martin Lehman, who was born on August 7, 1868, at Mecklenburg in Schwerin, Germany. Lehman emigrated to America with his family at age four, settling in Iowa, where he lived most of his childhood. Studying for the ministry at Northwestern College in Naperville, IL, he became a Nazarene minister and served churches in Audubon, IA, and New London, IN. However, the majority of his life was devoted to writing sacred songs. His first was produced while living in Iowa, in 1898. In 1911, he moved to Kansas City, MO, where he helped to found the Nazarene Publishing House. Sometime around 1917, Lehman, preparing to relocate to California, was at a campmeeting in a Midwestern state and heard an evangelist end his message by quoting what became the third stanza of Lehman’s song “The Love of God.” The preacher said that these lines had been found penciled on the wall of a patient’s room in an insane asylum after he had been carried to his grave. The assumption was that this inmate had scratched out the words in moments of sanity.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o6_S20SccIY#
Quite an amazing story of how this now Christian song came to be!
Excerpt:
The text of stanzas 1 and 2 and the tune (Lehman) was composed by Frederick Martin Lehman, who was born on August 7, 1868, at Mecklenburg in Schwerin, Germany. Lehman emigrated to America with his family at age four, settling in Iowa, where he lived most of his childhood. Studying for the ministry at Northwestern College in Naperville, IL, he became a Nazarene minister and served churches in Audubon, IA, and New London, IN. However, the majority of his life was devoted to writing sacred songs. His first was produced while living in Iowa, in 1898. In 1911, he moved to Kansas City, MO, where he helped to found the Nazarene Publishing House. Sometime around 1917, Lehman, preparing to relocate to California, was at a campmeeting in a Midwestern state and heard an evangelist end his message by quoting what became the third stanza of Lehman’s song “The Love of God.” The preacher said that these lines had been found penciled on the wall of a patient’s room in an insane asylum after he had been carried to his grave. The assumption was that this inmate had scratched out the words in moments of sanity.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o6_S20SccIY#
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