70. LOVE AND LOVING
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Author: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
Composer: Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836)
Author: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
Composer: Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836)
1. O, the fount of truth and grace found in loving,
If within the bonds of peace, we are living!
Without love we cannot live;
This is truthful, love should make life fruitful.
2. Without love the burden great on our shoulder
Would our weak and feeble state crush and smoulder;
But in love it groweth light,
And we offer still to toil and suffer.
3. Those who unto Christ the Lord do surrender
All their mind and thought and word in love tender
Shall, by faith and love impelled,
Boldly journey on the narrow pathway.
4. Thus with grace our soul and mind is inspired;
In our labor joy we find as desired,
Meeting kindred minded souls
Is reviving, humbling and enliv’ning.
If within the bonds of peace, we are living!
Without love we cannot live;
This is truthful, love should make life fruitful.
2. Without love the burden great on our shoulder
Would our weak and feeble state crush and smoulder;
But in love it groweth light,
And we offer still to toil and suffer.
3. Those who unto Christ the Lord do surrender
All their mind and thought and word in love tender
Shall, by faith and love impelled,
Boldly journey on the narrow pathway.
4. Thus with grace our soul and mind is inspired;
In our labor joy we find as desired,
Meeting kindred minded souls
Is reviving, humbling and enliv’ning.
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