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Love is the greatest thing
This world has ever known,
It fits us for God's service here
And leads us closer home.
Without love preaching's vain,
Religion just a show,
Trees that here only cumber ground
On which no fruit will grow.
And though our bodies burn
In human sacrifice,
This could never atone for sin,
Jesus must pay the price.
Love makes us suffer long,
And not to seek our own;
Helps us to act as Christians should,
And imitate God's Son.
Our faith and hope will end
When heaven we shall see;
But Charity will still live on
In all eternity.
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