Hymn: Immortal Love, for ever full
- Title: Immortal Love, for ever full
- First Line: Immortal Love, for ever full
- Hymnal: The Hymnal: published by the Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
- Denomination: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Northern Presbyterian
- Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work
- Publication Date: 1895
Author(s)
- Author Name: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Born: 1807
- Died: 1892
- Gender: M
Full Text
1 Immortal Love, for ever full, For ever flowing free, For ever shared, for ever whole, A never-ebbing sea! 2 Our outward lips confess the Name All other names above; Love only knoweth whence it came, And comprehendeth love. 3 We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown: 4 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present Help is He; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. 5 The healing of His seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch Him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again. 6 Through Him the first fond prayers are said Our lips of childhood frame; The last low whispers of our dead Are burdened with His Name. 7 O Lord, and Master of us all, Whate'er our name or sign, We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call, We test our lives by Thine. Amen.