The Cross Means Love

By this sign we conquer Blessed cross of Christ

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Tune: [By this sign we conquer] (Kirkpatrick)
Published in 4 hymnals

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 >

Text Information

First Line: By this sign we conquer Blessed cross of Christ
Title: The Cross Means Love
Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Language: English
Refrain First Line: The cross means love
Publication Date: 1911
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
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The Message in Song #31

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Songs of Praise and Service #88

The Ham-Ramsay Revival Hymns, a Collection of High Class Gospel Music #d29

The Message in Song Nos. 1 & 2 #d22

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