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Shall I Crucify Him?

Shall I crucify my Savior, When for me He bore such loss?

Author: Carrie Ellis Breck
Tune: [Shall I crucify my Savior] (Tullar)
Published in 31 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Shall I crucify my Saviour,
When for me He bore such loss?
Shall I put to shame my Savior?
Can I nail Him to the cross?

Chorus:
Shall I crucify my Savior?
Crucify my Lord again?
Once! oh, once! I crucified Him!
Shall I crucify again?

2 Are temptations so alluring?
Do earth pleasures so enthrall?
That I cannot love my Savior
Well enough to leave them all? [Chorus]

3 'T was my sins that crucified Him,
Shall they crucify Him yet?
Blackest day of nameless anguish,
Can my thankless soul forget? [Chorus]

4 Oh, the kindly hands of Jesus,
Pouring blessings on all men!
Bleeding nail-scarred hands of Jesus!
Can I nail them once again? [Chorus]

Source: The Christian Hymnary: books 1-4 #558

Author: Carrie Ellis Breck

Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck. Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Shall I crucify my Savior, When for me He bore such loss?
Title: Shall I Crucify Him?
Author: Carrie Ellis Breck
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Shall I crucify my Savior?
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 11 of 11)
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Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #654

Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #710

Favorite Songs of the Church #463

Great Songs of the Church (Revised) #269

Hymns for Worship #346

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Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #573

Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #633

Sacred Selections for the Church #610

Sacred Songs of the Church #779

Songs of Faith and Praise #566

Songs of the Church #365

Include 20 pre-1979 instances
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