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The Anchor That Ever Will Hold

I have an Anchor that holds me safe

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Tune: [I have an Anchor that holds me safe]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 I have an Anchor that holds me safe
When ‘whelming billows roll;
That Anchor—Christ—my steadfast Hope,
Who will the waves control.

Refrain:
My Anchor—my Anchor is Jesus;
My bark shall be safely controlled
My Anchor—my Anchor is Jesus;
The Anchor that ever will hold.

2 May Jesus ever, on life’s great sea
Remain my Anchor sure;
Then ‘mid all dangers everywhere,
I shall be kept secure. [Refrain]

3 This blessed Anchor—my Hope—my All,
Will bring me, by and by,
To where ‘tis held “within the veil”
Beyond the shining sky. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns We Love, for Sunday Schools and All Devotional Meetings #30

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: I have an Anchor that holds me safe
Title: The Anchor That Ever Will Hold
Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Language: English
Refrain First Line: My Anchor is Jesus
Copyright: Public Domain

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Hymns of the Kingdom #24

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Hymns We Love, for Sunday Schools and All Devotional Meetings #30

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