All, yes, all I give to Jesus

All, yes, all I give to Jesus.  Jonathan Burtch Atchinson* (1840-1882). First published in Triumphant Songs No. 2 (Chicago: the Edwin O. Excell Co., 1889), with a tune by Edwin O. Excell* named ESCONDIDO. It was headed ‘Dedicated to the “Deaconesses” of America’ (Deaconesses were active in several churches and hospitals in the 1880s and 1890s). It had four stanzas: All, yes, all I give to Jesus, It belongs to Him; All my heart I give to Jesus It belongs to Him; Evermore to be His dwelling, Evermore His praises swelling, Evermore His goodness telling, It belongs to Him. All, yes, all I give to Jesus,  It belongs to Him; All my voice I give to Jesus,  It belongs to Him; Pleading for...

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