Jesus, our Love, is crucified!
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“Death came, and Jesus meekly bowed;
His failing eyes He strove to guide
With mindful love to Mary’s face;
Jesus, our Love, is crucified!”
What a starved religion it must be that cannot stomach such lines as those! And what justice to Father Faber! Yet the editor allows the next hymn to open with the lines:
“Hail, Jesus! hail! who for my sake
Sweet blood from Mary’s veins didst take.”
It is to be supposed that he could not well deny the physical fact, though he would seem to have strong doubts about it, for presently we find him in “We come to thee, Sweet Saviour,” changing the last line of the chorus,