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The cross means love

Author: Carrie E. Breck Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: By this sign we conquer Blessed cross of Christ

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[By this sign we conquer]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 33236 51122 33323 Used With Text: The Cross Means Love

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The Cross Means Love

Author: Mrs. F. A. Breck Hymnal: The Message in Song #31 (1911) First Line: "By this sign we conquer!" Languages: English Tune Title: ["By this sign we conquer!"]
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The Cross Means Love

Author: Mrs. F. A. Breck Hymnal: Songs of Praise and Service #88 (1912) First Line: By this sign we conquer Languages: English Tune Title: [By this sign we conquer]
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The Cross Means Love

Author: Mrs. F. A. Breck Hymnal: Praise Him #190 (1914) First Line: "By this sign we conquer!" Languages: English Tune Title: ["By this sign we conquer!"]

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Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Mrs. F. A. Breck Author of "The Cross Means Love" in Praise Him 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.

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[By this sign we conquer]" in Songs of Praise and Service William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman

Mrs. Frank A. Breck

Person Name: Mrs. F. A. Breck Author of "The Cross Means Love" in Songs of Praise and Service See Breck, Carrie Ellis, 1855-1934
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