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The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

Hymn lyrics to We Gather Together, aka. Thanksgiving Song.

We gather together

Hymn lyrics to All The Path The Saints Are Treading, by Janetta Wilbraham Taylor

All The Path The Saints Are Treading

Tell me the old, old story

Hymn lyrics to Love Divine, all love excelling - lyrics by Charles Wesley (1747), music by John Zundel

Love Divine, all love excelling

Song lyrics to Jesus, I my cross have taken, by Henry Francis Lyte (1825)

Jesus, I my cross have taken

Song lyrics to Abide with me; fast falls the eventide by Henry F. Lyte, 1847. Henry Lyte wrote this hymn only three weeks before he died from tuberculosis. He wrote it to accompany his farewell sermon to his congregation, as he left to travel to Italy for his health. Sadly, he never made it there, dying in France.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide