1 Jesus came to save my soul,
All for me, all for me;
Came to make the wounded whole,
All for me, all for me.
Jesus wore a crown of thorn,
Bearing grief, and pain, and scorn;
‘Twas for me they all were borne,
All for me, all for me.
2 Oh! what love was His to give,
All for me, all for me;
When He died that I might live,
All for me, all for me.
Jesus pardons all my sin,
Shows a kingdom I may win;
Where He bids me enter in,
All for me, all for me.
3 Untold blessings may be mine,
All for me, all for me;
Thro’ His grace and love divine,
All for me, all for me.
With the Lord who loves me so,
Joys eternal I shall know,
Where the crystal waters flow,
All for me, all for me.
Source: Gospel Herald in Song #121
Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, 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)
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