So many good old songs.
You can read about the hymn’s author, Elvina M. Hall here on Robert Cottrill’s excellent Wordwise Hymns blog.
I like the clear testimony of substitutionary atonement.
I like the clear references to hope beyond the grave. Death and the eternal hope are not frequent themes in contemporary songs. Which is funny, because the mortality rate for Christians is exactly the same as it was one hundred and fifty years ago.
The website Timeless Truths has a number of public domain songs posted with sheet music, scorch and lyrics. A good resource in itself. Here’s their link for Jesus Paid It All.
1.
I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
Refrain:
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
2.
For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.
3.
And now complete in Him,
My robe, His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.
4.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.
5.
When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.
6.
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down,
All down at Jesus’ feet.
One of the hymn books that I have omits verses two and five. When I used it tonight I took the liberty of swapping verses three and four as printed above.
Here’s a YouTube.
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