This is the third hymn in HTTSOD headed Love unspeakable. (Above, the house where Pantycelyn lived. I once visited there with a friend and was kindly shown a lock of Pantycelyn's red hair by the couple living there).
The enormous load of human guilt
Was on my Saviour laid;
With woes, as with a garment, he
For sinners was array'd.
And in the horrid pangs of death
He wept. He pray'd for me,
Lov'd and embrac'd my guilty soul
When nailed to the tree.
О love amazing ! love beyond
The reach of human tongue;
Love which shall be the subject of
An everlasting song.
Eternity, though infinite,
Is short enough to trace
The virtues of his healing wounds,
The wonders of his grace.
Ye Men rejoice in Jesu's blood,
Ye angels, join your lays,
In one harmonious endless choir
Sing his eternal praise.
I'm sorry, but keeping locks of WWP's hair is just freaky.
ReplyDeleteThe next thing you know they'll be selling tufts of Spurgeon's beard...
It's freakier than that. The lock was cut when he was exhumed from his grave for some reason! As for Spurgeon, dare I mention wedding cake?
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether that exists any more? I know it did, in some kind of glass phial.
ReplyDeleteI also know that when CHS's tomb was repaired you could see the imprints of the palm leaves they laid in there. The key (which I have seen with my own eyes by virtue of being a 'deacon's kid') is in the safe (more of a room actually) at the Met Tab.
Anyway, at least wedding cake is not a bodily part...