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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck

Mrs. Frank A. Breck has written fourteen or fifteen hundred hymns, and one of the best loved is: “Face to face with Christ my Saviour, Face to face—what will it be, When with rapture I behold Him, Jesus Christ who died for me?” Brought up by God-fearing parents, she cannot remember when Bible reading and prayer were not her daily home custom. From the days of her youth Carrie E. Breck wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications. For a number of years after her marriage, in 1884, family duties superseded those literary, and only on rare occasions did she encourage the muse. Her first published hymn was “You ought to do something for Jesus.” Writing of this memorable occasion, when new desires for this pa… Go to person page >