Face to face with Christ my Saviour

Face to face with Christ my Saviour. Carrie Breck* (1855-1934). This hymn is dated 1898 in hymnals. It is based on I Corinthians, 13:12.  First sung by the Gospel singer and publisher Grant Colfax Tullar* (1869-1950) in front of the pulpit in First Presbyterian Church, Vineland, New Jersey (Conwell, 1916, p. 29). It appeared in Sermons in Song, no. 2 ,‘For use in Gospel Meetings and other Religious Services’, edited by Tullar and Isaac H. Meredith (Chicago: Tullar-Meredith Music Co., 1899). It featured in very many hymnbooks of the 20th and 21st centuries: it was in Hymns for the Living Church (1974), edited by Donald P. Hustad*, in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), and in successive...