Belovèd, let us love: love is of God;
In God alone hath love its true abode.Belovèd, let us love: for they who love,
They only, are His sons, born from aboveBelovèd, let us love: for love is rest,
And he who loveth not abides unblest.Belovèd, let us love: for love is light,
And he who loveth not dwelleth in night.Belovèd, let us love: for only thus
Shall we behold that God Who loveth us.
I definitely want this in my hymnal—it first appeared in a Baptist hymnal (Supplement of the Baptist Psalms and Hymns, 1880), according to TCH, and I am sorry it has fallen from our denominational repertoire—but I am not sure what tune to use. I'll be trying out those in TCH (GLOVERNIA, GRANDPONT, DENNIS (Thalben-Ball), the last two also in CSH) but I wonder what tune (if any) it had in the Baptist Supplement of 1880, and I am open to other suggestions in 10.10 or 6.4.6.4.