This grace wherein we stand.
Romans 5:2
Words: Eliza Scudder, in Pictures of the olden Time, as Shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims, by her uncle Edmund H. Sears, 1857.
Music: Abiding Grace John S. Camp, 1905 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Scudder (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Thou grace divine, encircling all,
A soundless, shoreless sea!
Wherein at last our souls must fall
O love of God most free!
And though we turn us from thy face,
And wander wide and long,
Thou hold’st us still in Thine embrace,
O love of God most strong!
The saddened heart, the restless soul,
The toil worn frame and mind,
Alike confess thy sweet control,
O love of God most kind!
And filled and quickened by Thy breath,
Our souls are strong and free,
To rise o’er sin and fear and death,
O love of God, to Thee!