I Want My Life to Tell

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Amid life's busy, hurrying throng

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Tune: [Amid life's busy, hurrying throng]
Published in 12 hymnals

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1 Amid life's busy, hurrying throng,
The gay, the sad, the weak, the strong,
While I am traveling along,
I want my life to tell for Jesus.

Refrain:
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!

2 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. [Refrain]

3 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. [Refrain]

4 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. [Refrain]

Source: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #190

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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:	Amid life's busy, hurrying throng
Title:	I Want My Life to Tell
Author:	Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I want my life to tell for Jesus
Publication Date:	1906
Copyright:	Public Domain