LOVE DIVINE ALL LOVES EXCELLING

This well-loved hymn was written by the great English hymn writer Charles Wesley in  1747, and it was among the best known and most enduring of the 6,500 hymns he wrote during his lifetime.  Born in Epworth, Lincolnshire in England to Samuel Wesley, who was an Anglican Cleric, and Susannah Wesley, he became a leader of the Methodist movement with his brother John Wesley.