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I Want My Life To Tell
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Author Carrie (Mrs. Frank A.) Elizabeth Ellis Breck Carrie (Mrs. Frank A.) Elizabeth Ellis Breck's bio information January 22, 1855 - March 27, 1934 Born: January 22, 1855, Walden, Vermont. Died: March 27, 1934, Portland, Oregon. Buried: Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Oregon. Carrie’s family moved from Vermont to Vineland, New Jersey, and she spent most of her life in southern New Jersey. She married Frank Breck, and they moved to Oregon between 1910 and 1920. A devout Christian, she was devoted to her husband and five daughters. She had no sense of pitch, and could not carry a tune, but she had the gift of poetic rhythm, and wrote more than 2,000 poems. She was not particularly robust in health, and had to take frequent rests while doing chores. At such times, she would sit in her favorite rocking chair, take up a notebook, and write poetry, often with a baby on her knee, or playing at her feet. Her works include: To Comfort Thee, and Other Verses (Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Printing Company, 1927) Hymns All the World for Jesus At Mother’s Grave Be Strong Columbia’s Song Face to Face with Christ, My Savior Forward! Go to the Deeps of God’s Promise Have You Found the Savior Precious? He Did Not Die in Vain Help Somebody Today I Cannot Get Beyond His Love I Want Everybody to Know I’ll Count My Blessings It Is Not Fair Make Him Known Nailed to the Cross Savior for You, The Some One Who Knows Step in Anywhere Tell Thy Life-Story to Jesus There’s a Beautiful City (© 1935) Valley of Peace, The When Love Shines In You Mean to Be Saved—But When? Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/r/e/breck_cee.html
Composer Edmund Simon Lorenz Edmund Simon Lorenz's bio information July 13, 1854 - July 10, 1942 Born: July 13, 1854, Stark County, Ohio. Died: July 10, 1942, Dayton Ohio. Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. Pseudonyms: * E. D. Mund * L. S. Edwards The Lorenz family were Adventists, and emigrated from Messer, Russia (near Saratow), to America, and lived in Dayton, Ohio. Edmund attended Otterbein University, Union Biblical Seminary, Yale Theological Seminary, and the University of Leipzig. He served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio (1884-6), and as president of Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania (1886-8). He later founded the Lorenz and Company music publishing house in Dayton, Ohio. His works include: * Gates of Praise (with Isaiah Baltzell) (Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1884) * Garnered Sheaves of Song for the Sunday School (with Isaiah Baltzell) (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, 1888) * Songs of the Morning (with Isaiah Baltzell) (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, 1889) * Practical Church Music (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909) * Church Music: What a Minister Should Know About It (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1923) * Music in Work and Worship (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1925) * The Singing Church, 1937 Sources * Hall, p. 194 * Reynolds, pp. 360-1 Music 1. Give Me the Bible 2. God Is Love 3. Name of Jesus, The 4. Tell It to Jesus Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/l/o/r/lorenz_es.html
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Lyrics Amid life's busy, hurr'ying throng, The gay, the sad, the weak, the strong, While I am traveling along, I want my life to tell for Jesus. I want to be a beacon light To cheer wayfarers in their night, And help them on their way aright; I want my life to tell for Jesus. I want my life with Jesus hid, That I may do what He shall bid; I want to love as Jesus did; I want my life to tell for Jesus. To wealth and fame I would not climb, But I would know God's peace sublime, And ev'rywhere and all the time, I want my life to tell for Jesus. Chorus: I want my life to tell for Jesus! I want my life to tell for Jesus, That ev'rywhere I go, Men may His goodness know, I want my life to tell for Jesus!

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