THE CHURCH
CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS

My God, How Wonderful Thou Art

by FEDERICK WILLIAM FABER, 1814-63

My God, how wonderful thou art.
Thy majesty how bright
How beautiful Thy mercy-seat,
In depths of burning light
How dread are thine eternal years
O everlasting Lord,
By prostrate spirits day and night
Incessantly adored!
O how I fear thee, living God,
With deepest, tenderest fears
And worship thee with trembling hope
And penitential tears!
Yet I may love thee too, O Lord,
Almighty as thou art,
For thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.
No earthly father loves like Thee:
No mother, e'er so mild,
Bear and forbears as thou hast done
With me, thy sinful child.
How beautiful, how beautiful
The sight of Thee must be,
Thine endless wisdom, boundless power,
And awful purity!