Nailed to the Cross

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They are nailed to the cross (Chorus)

Author: Carrie Ellis Breck
Published in 2 hymnals

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They are nailed to the cross,
They are nailed to the cross,
O how much he was willing to bear!
With what anguish and loss
Jesus went to the cross,
And he carried my sins with him there.

Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #c24

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Author: Carrie Ellis Breck

Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, 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:	They are nailed to the cross (Chorus)
Title:	Nailed to the Cross
Author:	Carrie Ellis Breck
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1899
Copyright:	Public Domain