One There is Above All Others
Oh, How He
Loves!
BIBLE
REFERENCE:
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good
comfort, be of one mind, live in
peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with
you.
2 Corinthians 13:11
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:10
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us.
Ephesians 2:4
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our
Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
And we have known and believed the love that God hath
to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16
In this was manifested the love of God toward us,
because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein
is
love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our
sins.
1 John 4:9,10
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing
of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ
our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope
of eternal life.
Titus 3:4-7
Miss Marianne Nunn -
Lyrics
1778-1847
Born: May 17th. 1778, Colchester, Essex. England
Died: February 27, 1847, Colchester, Essex, England
Hubert Platt Main -
Composer
1839-1925
Born: August 17, 1839, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Died: October 7, 1925, Newark, New Jersey.
HYMN HISTORY:
The lyrics to this hymn were written by Miss Marianne Nunn.
Miss Nunn was born in Colchester, Essex, England on May 17th. 1778. She lived much in retirement and was
never married. The hymn, "One There is Above All Others," was first published by her
brother John Nunn, a minister, in a book "Psalms and Hymns". It was first brought to America by a Dr.
Leavitt in "The Christian Lyre" in 1830 and has been repeated much there since. How Miss Nunn must have
enjoyed the love of Christ as she penned these lines! Paul the Apostle could say,
"The love of Christ constraineth us". In 1847 Miss Marianne Nunn went to that Friend she had found on
earth and whose love meant so much to her.
Hubert Platt Main was the son of Sylvester Main, Hubert attended singing school until 1854, when he went
to New York City and worked as an errand boy in a wallpaper house. In April 1855, he became an errand
boy in the Bristow & Morse piano company. That same year,
he helped his father edit the Sunday School Lute songbook by Isaac Woodbury. In 1867, Main was called to
fill a position in William Bradbury�s publishing house. Following Bradbury�s death in 1868, the Biglow
& Main publishers were formed as its successor. In addition to publishing,
Main wrote over 1,000 pieces of music�part song, singing school songs, Sunday School music, hymns,
anthems, etc. He also collected music books; in 1891, he sold his collection of over 3,500 volumes to
the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, where they were known as the �Main Library.�
Dear Brothers and Sisters in
Christ,
The love of God is best manifested toward man by the grace of God. God showed mercy in love when He
sent His son to bear our sins in His own body on the cross. The grace of God is nothing less than
the unlimited love of God expressed in the gift of His Son, our Saviour.
The Bible tells us not to grieve the Holy Spirit, our God is a jealous God and wants us
to love Him with all our heart, soul and mind.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:5
We are to love God with all our heart, and soul,
and might. That is:
With a sincere love. - Not in word and tongue only,
but inwardly in truth.
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Colossians 3:17
With a strong love. - He that is our All, must have
our all, and none but he.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye
holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1 Peter 1:15-16
With a superlative love. - We must love God above
any creature whatever, and love nothing but what we love for him.
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:5
With an intelligent love. - To love him with all
our heart, and with all our understanding.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:5
With an entire love. - Our hearts must be united in
his love.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:1
Oh that this love of God may be shed
abroad in our hearts!
�There is a friend that sticketh closer than a
brother.�
Proverbs 18:24
His name is the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know Him as
your Lord and Savior?
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