It Can Never Be Told

Representative Text

1 How great is the kindness of Jesus our King,
Who came from His glory, salvation to bring!
who tells us, on Him all our sins may be rolled,--
His great loving-kindness can never be told.

Refrain:
It can never be told, It can never be told,
His great loving-kindness can never be told.

2 He healeth the sick, and the lame, and the blind;
He leadeth His flock like a shepherd most kind;
He bringeth the lost one again to His fold,--
His great loving-kindness can never be told. [Refrain]

3 He grieves for the erring whenever they fall;
He pardons transgressions, forgetting them all;
He blesses the young, and He comforts the old,--
His great loving-kindness can never be told. [Refrain]

4 For us He hath builded, where cometh no night,
A beautiful home in a city of light;
His face He has promised that we shall behold,--
His great loving-kindness can never be told. [Refrain]

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: How great is the kindness of Jesus our King
Title: It Can Never Be Told
Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Language: English
Refrain First Line: It can never be told
Copyright: Public Domain

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