{"slug": "jesus-paid-it-all", "title": "Jesus Paid It All", "first_line": "I hear the Saviour say", "author": "elvina-m-hall", "author_date": "1865", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 7, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Redemption", "Grace", "Cleansing"], "scripture": ["1 Peter 2:24", "Isaiah 1:18", "Revelation 7:14"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "gospel-hymns-sacred-songs-1875", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Elvina Mabel Hall (1820-1889), written 1865 on the fly-leaf of a hymnal in the choir loft of the Monument Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore. Transcribed syllable by syllable from the dated page image of Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church & Co., 1875), No. 35, printed page 36 \u2014 archive.org gospelhymnssacre00blis_0, leaf n40 \u2014 which is headed \"All to Christ I Owe.\", carries the scripture motto \"Who His own self bare our sins.\"\u20141 Peter 2: 24, credits \"Mrs. Elvina M. Hall.\" on the left and \"John T. Grape, by per.\" on the right, sets stanza 1 and the chorus under the staves, and prints stanzas 2 to 5 in two columns below, each closing \"\u2014Cho.\" Collated against the same setting reprinted in Gospel Hymns Consolidated, Nos. 1 to 4 (1883), No. 35, printed page 36 (archive.org hymnsconso00blis, leaf n40) and in Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 Complete (1894), No. 588, printed pages 592-593 (archive.org gospelhymnsnos1t0000unse_s2j5, leaves n598-n599). US public domain: written 1865, the earliest printing read here is 1875, and the author died in 1889, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. THE PAGE SPELLS IT \"Sav-iour\", and that spelling is kept. Punctuation follows the 1875 page throughout, including the em-dash closing stanza 3 line 2 and the double quotation marks round \"Jesus paid it all\" in stanza 4. TWO ELISIONS ARE DECLARED, and both are ordinary sung ones rather than changes to the printed words. (1) The page prints \"Thy power, and Thine alone,\" \u2014 seven speech syllables against six noteheads \u2014 so \"power\" is ONE slot here; the 1894 reprint spells it \"pow'r\" in its own underlay, which is what that means. (2) The page prints \"In the blood of Calvary's Lamb.\" \u2014 eight speech syllables against seven noteheads \u2014 so the syllabified line divides it \"Cal -- v'ry's\"; the 1894 reprint sets the unhyphenated word \"Calvary's\" across those same two notes. The prose keeps the 1875 page's spelling in both places. THE STANZAS ARE NOT ALL THE SAME LENGTH \u2014 stanza 1 is 6.6.7.7 but stanzas 2 to 5 are a syllable short in lines 3 and 4 (and stanzas 2 and 3 also in line 1), which is why the tune carries a variable melisma and why the plates print a SLUR over the two pickup notes of verse lines 3 and 4. The 1875 and 1883 plates set stanza 1 only under the staves and print stanzas 2 to 5 as a poetry block, so THEY GIVE NO UNDERLAY FOR THE LATER STANZAS; the 1894 reprint does \u2014 it sets stanzas 1, 2 and 3 interlinearly \u2014 and its placement is exactly the one this hymn's setting encodes: in stanza 2 \"Lord,\", \"Can\" and \"And\" are each carried across a pickup pair (line 2, \"Thy pow'r, and Thine a-lone,\", is six syllables over six notes and needs none); in stanza 3 \"For\" and \"I'll\" are carried across a pickup pair, line 2 needs none, and line 4 spreads \"Calvary's\" over two notes instead. Where the printings differ in wording the 1875 reading is followed: 1875 \"I'll wash my garment white\", 1894 \"garments\".", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "i_hear_the_savior_say_thy_strength_indeed"}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "I hear the Sav -- iour say, Thy strength in -- deed is small; Child of weak -- ness, watch and pray, Find in Me thine all in all.", "prose": ["I hear the Saviour say,", "Thy strength indeed is small;", "Child of weakness, watch and pray,", "Find in Me thine all in all."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Lord, now in -- deed I find Thy power, and Thine a -- lone, Can change the lep -- er's spots, And melt the heart of stone.", "prose": ["Lord, now indeed I find", "Thy power, and Thine alone,", "Can change the leper's spots,", "And melt the heart of stone."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "For noth -- ing good have I Where -- by Thy grace to claim\u2014 I'll wash my gar -- ment white In the blood of Cal -- v'ry's Lamb.", "prose": ["For nothing good have I", "Whereby Thy grace to claim\u2014", "I'll wash my garment white", "In the blood of Calvary's Lamb."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "When from my dy -- ing bed My ran -- somed soul shall rise, Then \"Je -- sus paid it all\" Shall rend the vault -- ed skies.", "prose": ["When from my dying bed", "My ransomed soul shall rise,", "Then \"Jesus paid it all\"", "Shall rend the vaulted skies."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "And when be -- fore the throne I stand in Him com -- plete, I'll lay my tro -- phies down, All down at Je -- sus' feet.", "prose": ["And when before the throne", "I stand in Him complete,", "I'll lay my trophies down,", "All down at Jesus' feet."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus paid it all, All to Him I owe; Sin had left a crim -- son stain: He washed it white as snow.", "prose": ["Jesus paid it all,", "All to Him I owe;", "Sin had left a crimson stain:", "He washed it white as snow."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}