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Svedrup Memorial Booklet (1938), Page 09
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My God! how wonderful Ghou art My God! how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright! How beautiful Thy mercy-seat In depths of burning light! How dread are Thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord, By prostrate spirits day and night Incessantly adored! How wonderful, how beautiful, The sight of...
Show moreMy God! how wonderful Ghou art My God! how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright! How beautiful Thy mercy-seat In depths of burning light! How dread are Thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord, By prostrate spirits day and night Incessantly adored! How wonderful, how beautiful, The sight of Thee must be, Thine endless wisdom, boundless pow’r, And awful purity! Oh how I fear Thee, living God! With deepest, tend’rest fears, And worship Thee with trembling hove, And penitential tears! Yet, I may love Thee too, O Lord! Almighty as Thou art, For Thou hast stoop’d to ask of me The love of my poor heart. No earthly father loves like Thee, No mother e’er so mild, Bears and forbears, as Thou hast done With me, Thy sinful child. My God, how wonderful Thou art, Thou everlasting Friend! On Thee I stay my trusting heart, Tul faith in vision end.
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Svedrup Memorial Booklet (1938), Page 25
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his way through. He humbly built his faith upon the assurance that his Redeemer liveth, and that one day in His presence all shall be revealed. Yet this attitude, of course, did not make Dr. Sverdrup indif- ferent to questions of theological or scientific import. On the contrary, he was on a...
Show morehis way through. He humbly built his faith upon the assurance that his Redeemer liveth, and that one day in His presence all shall be revealed. Yet this attitude, of course, did not make Dr. Sverdrup indif- ferent to questions of theological or scientific import. On the contrary, he was on a perpetual quest for truth in all its aspects. And he was willing to learn from all, from his theological op- ponents as well as from those who were in essential agreement with him, from scientists as well as from religionists, from modern novelists as well as from the ancient prophets and seers. He was in the true sense “‘a liberal.””’ He did not believe in com- pelling anyone to believe anything, even by moral force. He would rather see men wander into the far countries of unbelief and for a time waste their substance in riotous thinking than he would force them to remain at home in obedient orthodoxy. He believed in taking risks—because he believed in a God who took the supreme “risk” of creating a world of freedom. It need scarcely be said, however, that George Sverdrup was no theological “liberal’ in the common American sense of that word. He was a profound and humble believer in Christ the Divine Savior of sinners. To hear him lead in prayer, whether in a group of Church leaders gathered for important delibera- tions, or at the chapel services, or in informal devotional meet- ings of the students (which he often attended) was always an enriching and edifying experience. Once I had the privilege of hearing him conduct family devotions at the home of a country pastor, and I shall never forget it. God was to him the Great Reality, and by his humble beautiful words he was able to make Him real also to all who entered into his prayer. As was said of him at one of the memorial services after his passing: “It would be difficult to imagine a life which more attractively ex- emplified obedience to the ancient command to ‘do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God’.” From among the teachers under whom I have studied, two stand out in ever clearer prominence with the passing years: PAGE TWENTY-ONE
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