This song keeps turning up as I look around the internet.
It makes some very useful points.
Frederick W. Faber wrote 12 stanzas which have been reduced with various selections representing the theme which the collators have wanted to emphasise.
Here’s one version.
1
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
Like the wideness of the sea;
There’s a kindness in His justice,
Which is more than liberty.
2.
There is welcome for the sinner,
And more graces for the good;
There is mercy with the Savior;
There is healing in His blood.
3
But we make His love too narrow
By false limits of our own;
And we magnify His strictness
With a zeal He will not own.
4
For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of our mind;
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
5
If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of our Lord.
This recording is to the tune most widely associated with the song, Wellesley.
I’m not convinced and want to check out a few more tune options.
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