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Author: T. T. Shields Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: There was never a prince so royal Refrain First Line: O grace of God, so boundless Used With Tune: [There was never a prince so royal]

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[There was never a prince so royal]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 33333 33444 44443 Used With Text: O Grace of God So Boundless

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O Grace of God So Boundless

Author: T. T. Shields Hymnal: The Voice of Thanksgiving #138 (1913) First Line: There was never a prince so royal Refrain First Line: O grace of God, so boundless Lyrics: 1 There was never a prince so royal, So worthy of deathless fame; There was never a friend so loyal, Such an ocean of love in a name! There were never such springs of sweetness, Such streams of ineffable bliss, Such powers of holy meetness As welled in that heart of His. Refrain: O grace of God, so boundless! O love of Christ, so true! Has sin your soul so blinded, That Jesus is nothing to you? 2 Ever busy His hands with kindness, His lips overflow’d with grace, While His feet were impelled to mercy, Love immortal illumin’d His face. And yet never a fiend did fathom Such depth of derision and shame, And never the vilest traitor Did bear such a burden of blame. [Refrain] 3 There were never such floods of sorrow, Such grief as the Savior brav’d, As were brimming His cup on Calv’ry, When He drained it that we might be saved. O, was ever a heart so hardened, And can such ingratitude be, That one for whom Jesus suffered Will say, “It is nothing to me?” [Refrain] Tune Title: [There was never a prince so royal]

O Grace Of God So Boundless

Author: Thomas Todhunter Shields Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12380 First Line: There was never a prince so royal Refrain First Line: O grace of God, so boundless! Lyrics: 1 There was never a prince so royal, So worthy of deathless fame; There was never a friend so loyal, Such an ocean of love in a name! There were never such springs of sweetness, Such streams of ineffable bliss, Such powers of holy meetness As welled in that heart of His. Refrain: O grace of God, so boundless! O love of Christ, so true! Has sin your soul so blinded, That Jesus is nothing to you? 2 Ever busy His hands with kindness, His lips overflowed with grace, While His feet were impelled to mercy, Love immortal illumined His face. And yet never a fiend did fathom Such depth of derision and shame, And never the vilest traitor Did bear such a burden of blame. [Refrain] 3 There were never such floods of sorrow, Such grief as the Savior braved, As were brimming His cup on Calvary, When He drained it that we might be saved. O, was ever a heart so hardened, And can such ingratitude be, That one for whom Jesus suffered Will say, "It is nothing to me"? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [There was never a prince so royal]

O Grace of God So Boundless

Author: T. T. Shields Hymnal: The Voice of Thanksgiving No. 2 #138 (1916) First Line: There was never a prince so royal Refrain First Line: O grace of God, so boundless Tune Title: [There was never a prince so royal]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[There was never a prince so royal]" in The Voice of Thanksgiving Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

T. T. Shields

1873 - 1955 Author of "O Grace of God So Boundless" in The Voice of Thanksgiving Shields, Thomas Todhunter. (Bristol, England, November 1, 1873--April 4, 1955, Toronto, Ontario). Baptist. Educated mostly by his father, a Baptist pastor who came to Canada in 1888. Pastorates (in Ontario) at Florence (1894-1895), Dutton (1895-1897), Delhi (1897-1900), Hamilton (1900-1903), London (1904-1910), Toronto (1910-1955). As outstanding preacher, he felt bound as pastor of Canada's largest Baptist church (Jarvis Street, Toronto) to denounce Modernist theology, especially as taught at the denominational university (McMaster), until in 1926 the Canadian Baptist Convention voted to back McMaster and expel him and his congregation. In January 1927 he opened Toronto Baptist Seminary to train pastors committed to fundamentalism, while The Gospel Witness, the paper he had edited and largely written since 1922, helped to united Baptists who shared his conservative views. When his church burned in March 1938, he hastily compiled a hymnbook, including one hymn of his own, for use during and just after the rebuilding. See: Tarr, Leslie K. (1967). Shields of Canada. Grand Rapids: Baker. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives