PRAISE TO THE HOLIEST

  1. Praise to the holiest in the height.
    And in the depth be praised
    In all his words most wonderful
    Most sure in all his ways.
  2. O loving wisdom of our God!
    When all was sin and shame
    A second Adam to the fight
    And to the rescue came.
  3. O wisest love! that flesh and blood
    Which did in Adam fail,
    Should strive afresh against their foe
    Should strive and should prevail.
  4. And that a higher gift than grace
    Should flesh and blood refine,
    God’s presence and his very self.
    And essence all divine.
  5. O generous love! that he who smote
    In man for man the foe,
    The double agony in man
    For man should undergo.
  6. And in the garden secretly,
    And on the cross on high,
    Should teach his brethren, and inspire
    To suffer and to die.
  7. Praise to the holiest in the height
    And in the depth be praise,
    In all his words most wonderful,
    Most sure in all his ways.

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