O Wonderful Love
- Words:
- Maxwell
- Music:
- J. W. McGarvey, Jr.
Sheet music
- 1How shall I my Savior set forth?How shall I His beauties declare?Or how shall I speak of His worth,Or what His chief dignities are?O wonderful love!(O wonderful love! O wonderful love!)O wonderful love!(wonderful love! O wonderful love!)O wonderful, wonderful love,(Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful love!)My Savior showed to me.
- 2Tho’ once He was nailed to the cross,Vile rebels like me to set free,His glory sustained no loss,Eternal His kingdom shall be.O wonderful love!(O wonderful love! O wonderful love!)O wonderful love!(wonderful love! O wonderful love!)O wonderful, wonderful love,(Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful love!)My Savior showed to me.
- 3O sinners! believe and adoreThis Savior, so rich to redeem;No creature can ever exploreThe treasure of goodness in Him.O wonderful love!(O wonderful love! O wonderful love!)O wonderful love!(wonderful love! O wonderful love!)O wonderful, wonderful love,(Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful love!)My Savior showed to me.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 67 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.