This song was written by Samuel Trevor Francis (1834-1925) after a serious bout with depression. As his biographers tell the story, one winter night as a teen, Francis was walking across the Hungerford Bridge over the River Thames. He paused and stared down into the depths of the river below. […]
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O the deep, deep love of Jesus!Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free,Rolling as a mighty oceanIn its fullness over me.Underneath me, all around me,Is the current of Thy love;Leading onward, leading homeward,To Thy glorious rest above. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!Spread His praise from shore to shore;How He loveth, ever […]