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[I think when I read the sweet story]

Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55671 22317 21721 Used With Text: Wonderful Love

Author: C. H. G. Appears in 19 hymnals First Line: I think, when I read the sweet story Refrain First Line: It is wonderful that he should love me Used With Tune: [I think, when I read the sweet story]

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Wonderful Love

Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: The Old Story in Song Number Two #144 (1908) First Line: I think, when I read the sweet story Refrain First Line: O it is wonderful that He should love me Lyrics: 1 I think, when I read the sweet story, How Jesus came down from his throne, To rescue the perishing sinner, To suffer and die for his own, Why should he assume my oblation? Why should he thus purchase salvation? Such love is divine revelation, Unbounded, unmeasured, unknown. Refrain: Oh, it is wonderful that he should love me, And for my sins with his life-blood atone! Oh, it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Yet to the world be it known, He brought me again to His own. 2 And when I am foll’wing his footsteps, New visions of beauty unfold, Till, lost in the depths of amazement, I marvel such love to behold. Why should He relinquish His glory? Before Him stood Calvary gory! Yet heaved resounds with the story Of love that can never be told. [Refrain] 3 Tho’ hated, despised, and rejected, Neglected again and again, He never deserts nor forsakes me, No matter how wayward I’ve been. My burden of sorrow he shareth, My stripes of iniquity weareth, My soul in his bosom he beareth This wonderful Saviour of men. [Refrain] Tune Title: [I think, when I read the sweet story]

Divine Love

Author: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #16206 First Line: I think, when I read the sweet story Refrain First Line: Oh, it is wonderful that He should love me Lyrics: 1 I think, when I read the sweet story, How Jesus came down from His throne, To rescue the perishing sinner, To suffer and die for His own; Why should He assume my oblation? Why should He thus purchase salvation? Such love is divine revelation, Unbounded, unmeasured, unknown. Refrain: Oh, it is wonderful that He should love me, And for my sins with His lifeblood atone! Oh, it is wonderful! Wonderful! wonderful! Yet to the world be it known, He brought me again to His own. 2 And when I am foll’wing his footsteps, New visions of beauty unfold, Till, lost in the depths of amazement, I marvel such love to behold. Why should He relinquish His glory? Before Him stood Calvary gory! Yet Heaven resounds with the story Of love that can never be told. [Refrain] 3 Tho’ hated, despised and rejected, Neglected again and again, He never deserts or forsakes me, No matter how wayward I’ve been. My burden of sorrow He shareth, My stripes of iniquity weareth, My soul in His bosom he beareth, This wonderful Savior of men. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I think, when I read the sweet story]

Wonderful Love

Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: Hymns for His Praise #8 (1906) First Line: I think, when I read the sweet story Refrain First Line: Oh, it is wonderful that He should love me Languages: English Tune Title: [I think, when I read the sweet story]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: C. H. G. Author of "Wonderful Love" in The Old Story in Song Number Two Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman