<h2><SPAN name="LOVE" id="LOVE" />LOVE</h2>
<p><i>For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God.</i>—Ephesians 2:8.</p>
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<span>Christ might have called the angels down<br/></span>
<span>To bear him safe above,<br/></span>
<span>To shield his brow from sorrow's crown,<br/></span>
<span>From death's cold blight, and bitter frown,<br/></span>
<span>Had it not been for love.<br/></span></div>
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<span>Our glorious King, our Prince of Peace,<br/></span>
<span>Has left his throne above<br/></span>
<span>To give our souls from sin release,<br/></span>
<span>To make our pain and anguish cease,<br/></span>
<span>And all because of love.<br/></span></div>
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<span>By faith in him, we all may see<br/></span>
<span>In realms of light above,<br/></span>
<span>Through streams of blood on Calvary,<br/></span>
<span>A joyful immortality;—<br/></span>
<span>The purchase price was love.<br/></span></div>
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