![]() Illustrated History of Hymns and Their Authors. You may freely use this content if you cite the source and/or link back to this page.ġ Long, Edwin McKean. ![]() We welcome your ideas! If you have suggestions on how to improve this page, please contact us. See our Hymn of the Week page for a list of the hymns that are included on this site. I trust that it has not failed to accomplish some good to my fellow-men for the glory of God.”Īdditional Resources for “Jesus Paid It All”: Under the providence of God it has been going ever since. At the suggestion of friends I sent a copy to Professor Theodor Perkins and it was published in Sabbath Carols. I gave him a copy of it and it was soon sung in several churches here in Baltimore and well received. Hall had written some words that would just suit the music. On hearing this piece he expressed his pleasure with it and stated that Mrs. Schreck called on me to select anything new that I had to offer. Time has proved the correctness of her judgment. “I made it a matter of prayer and study and gave to the public the music now known as ‘All to Christ I Owe.’ It was pronounced very poor by my choir and friends, but my dear wife persistently declared that it was a good piece of music and would live. I determined to give tangible shape to a theme that had been running in my mind for some time, to write, if possible, an answer to Bradbury’s beautiful piece, ‘Jesus Paid It All’. Thus afforded a pleasure not before enjoyed, I delighted myself in playing over some of our Sunday school hymns. “Our church was undergoing repairs, and the cabinet organ was placed in my care. John was a successful businessman who, as he said, “dabbled in music for his own amusement.” 3 He directed the choir at Monument Street Church in Baltimore and gives an account of the how the tune was composed: Tune “All to Christ I Owe” by John Thomas Grape (1835-1915), Published in 1868 Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.’” 1Įlvina later showed the words to a pastor who passed them on to John Thomas Grape, the composer of the tune. so rapidly did words pour into the heart that before the prayer was ended, I had completed the hymn, and as I rose from my knees, the chorus words rose jubilantly to my lips: ‘That these heaven-born thoughts might not escape, I took my pencil and commenced writing them down. ‘I hear the Saviour say, Thy strength indeed is small Ĭhild of weakness, watch and pray. “Feeling her own weakness and unworthiness, she says she inwardly exclaimed, ‘O Lord, I am so poor and helpless, what have I to bring to Thee,’ when there seemed to flow into my soul a sweet echo of the words of my hymn: Hymnologist Edwin Long records Elvina’s account of what happened next: One Sunday morning in 1865, during the opening service at the Monument Street Church in Baltimore, Elvina Mable Hall (a member of the choir) knelt as the pastor prayed. Words by Elvina Mable Hall (1822-1889), Published in 1865
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