Shall I Crucify Him?

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

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Tune: [Shall I crucify my Savior] (Tullar)
Published in 25 hymnals

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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. Bks. 1-4 #558

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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck

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) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck. Go to person page >

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First Line:	Shall I crucify my Savior, When for me He bore such loss?
Title:	Shall I Crucify Him?
Author:	Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Shall I crucify my Savior?
Publication Date:	1924
Copyright:	Public Domain