Growing Dearer Each Day

How sweet is the love of my Savior!
’Tis boundless and deep as the sea;
And best of it all, it is daily
Growing sweeter and sweeter to me.

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Sweeter and sweeter to me,
Dearer and dearer each day;
Oh, wonderful love of my Savior,
Growing dearer each step of my way!

I know He is ever beside me!
Eternity only will prove
The height and the depth of His mercy,
And the breadth of His infinite love.

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Wherever He leads I will follow,
Thru sorrow, or shadow or sun;
And though I be tried in the furnace,
I can say, “Lord, Thy will be it done.”

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Some day face to face I shall see Him,
And oh, what a joy it will be
To know that His love, now so precious,
Will forever grow sweeter to me!

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Author: Chas. H. Gabriel

Year: 1913

Charles H. Gabriel (often credited as Chas. H. Gabriel) is the most common attribution for both words and music of this gospel song. Some hymnals list the text under the pseudonym "C. Austin Miles" or as anonymous, but Gabriel is the primary and most widely accepted author.