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Text:I know not how that Bethlehem's Babe
Author:Rev. Harry Webb Farrington
Tune:EXETER
Composer:Henry Lowell Mason

181. I know not how that Bethlehem's Babe

1 I know not how that Bethlehem's Babe
Could in the Godhead be;
I only know the Manger Child
Has brought God's life to me.

2 I know not how that Calvary's cross
A world from sin could free;
I only know its matchless love
Has brought God's love to me.

3 I know not how that Joseph's tomb
Could solve death's mystery;
I only know a living Christ,
Our immortality.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: I know not how that Bethlehem's Babe
Author: Rev. Harry Webb Farrington (1910)
Meter: C. M.
Publication Date: 1950
Topic: Jesus Christ the Lord: His Living Presence; Atonement; Christ: Abiding with Believers (5 more...)
Copyright: Words copyright. Used by permission of the Hymn Society of America.
Tune Information
Name: EXETER
Composer: Henry Lowell Mason
Meter: C. M.
Key: F Major
Copyright: Tune copyright, 1924, by Henry Lowell Mason. Used by permission.
Notes: Now Public Domain.



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