Hymn & History
Acts 4:12
“Jesus Paid It All”
By Elvina Hall, 1865
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Hymn Lyrics
~ LYRICS ~
“Jesus Paid it All”
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.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone. [Refrain]
For nothing good have I
Where-by Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb. [Refrain]
And when, before the throne,
I stand in Him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
My lips shall still repeat. [Refrain]
The Author of the Hymn
THE AUTHOR ~ Elvina Hall
Born 1818 in Alexandria, Virginia
Died July 18, 1889 in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Elvina was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics to the well-known hymn, “Jesus Paid it All,” also known as “I hear the Saviour say” (Christ All and in All).
Elvina was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1818 to Captain David Reynolds. She married Richard Hall of Westmoreland County, Virginia. They had at least three children together that lived to adulthood, Agnes, Asenath, and Ella, and two that died as infants, Benoni and Ada. Elvina’s husband died 1859.
In 1885 Elvina remarried to Thomas Myers (1813-1894), a Methodist minister, at the home of her daughter, Ella. Elvina Hall Myers died in Ocean Grove, New Jersey on July 18, 1889, and her funeral was held at the Strawbridge Methodist Church.
History of Hymn
THE HISTORY ~ ” Jesus Paid it All”
This is a traditional American hymn about the penal substitutionary atonement for sin by the death of Jesus. The song references many Bible verses, including Romans 5 (“Jesus’ sacrifice gives life”) & Isaiah 1:18 (“a crimson flow”).
The song lyrics were written in 1865, by Elvina Hall, a 47-year-old, widowed congregant. She was listening to a church sermon and penned the words while sitting in the choir loft in a Monument Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. She gave the lyrics to her pastor, Rev. George W. Schreck, at the end of the church service.
Coincidentally, that same week the church organist (and coal merchant), John Grape (1835-1915), shared some new music, entitled “All To Christ I Owe,” with the same pastor who thought the lyrics and song fit well together. Hall & Grape worked to finish the hymn together, and then “at Schreck’s urging, they sent the hymn to Professor Theodore Perkins, publisher of the Sabbath Carols periodical, where it received its first publication.
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