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Hymns

Fr. Frederick William Faber

The hundred and fifty hymns of Faber, as he collected them in 1862 from his Jesus and Mary (1849) and the Oratory Hymns (1854): God and the Holy Trinity, the Sacred Humanity of Jesus, Our Lady and St. Joseph, the angels and saints, the sacraments, the faith and the spiritual life, miscellaneous hymns and the last things. They include "Faith of our Fathers", "There's a wideness in God's mercy" and "My God, how wonderful Thou art".

Contents

Source: The 150 hymns, one chapter each, grouped in the seven parts of the collection; stanza numbers, running heads and page numbers are dropped, and the hard line breaks of the verse are kept. The editor's introduction, the contents and the index of first lines are left out. The OCR is uncorrected apart from spacing, and isolated slips remain. Raw OCR in sources/en-US-originals/.