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The Secrets of God's Grace

Author: Katherine A. Grimes Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Wondrous their mystery, glorious their history Refrain First Line: Wonderful grace, O wonderful grace

[Wondrous their mystery, glorious] (Jordon)

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. C. Jordon Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56554 33433 21212 Used With Text: The Secrets of God's Grace

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Author: Katherine A. Grimes Hymnal: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #152 (1922) First Line: Wondrous their mystery, glorious their history Refrain First Line: Wonderful grace, oh, wonderful grace Lyrics: 1 Wondrous their mystery, glorious their history, Touched with the beauty of Jesus’ own face; Tongue cannot tell of them, though the hearts swell with them: Such are the secrets of God’s sweet grace. Refrain: Wonderful grace, oh, wonderful grace; All the world over may sad hearts discover The secrets of God’s sweet grace. 2 Sweet in their purity, strong in their surety, Bound by no limit of time or of space; Yet if in Him we hide, matters not what betide, Our are the secrets of God’s sweet grace. [Refrain] 3 Once we have known their pow’r, e’en in life’s darkest hour, Golden with promise their glory we trace; Come to Him, hide in Him, let your life bide in Him, Blest with the secrets of God’s sweet grace. [Refrain] Tune Title: [Wondrous their mystery, glorious their history]

The Secrets of God's Grace

Author: Katherine A. Grimes Hymnal: Golden Bells #48 (1923) First Line: Wondrous their mystery, glorious their history Refrain First Line: Wonderful grace, oh, wonderful grace Languages: English Tune Title: [Wondrous their mystery, glorious] (Jordon)

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Katherine A. Grimes

1877 - 1967 Author of "The Secrets of God's Grace" Born: April 26, 1877, Argentine, Michigan. Died: September 3, 1967, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Buried: Calvary Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Grimes was the first child of Stephen and Ada Potter Atherton, and had seven brothers. In 1900, she married broom maker Elliot Grant Grimes in Vernon, Michigan. She had a stepdaughter, Corabelle Grimes Shorden, one son, Leon Elliot Grimes, and an adopted daughter, Mary Patricia Green Jacobs. She became a writer at an early age, and worked as an editor for the Southern Agriculturist magazine in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to writing, she was an accomplished pianist and a music teacher. In 1920, she and her son Leon worked for Dr. William Fewkes of the Smithsonian Institute, exploring the Anasazi Indian ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado. In later years, she formed her own business, "Writer’s Aid," whereby she took a writers’ manuscripts and corrected and prepared them for submission for publication. --www.hymntime.com/tch/