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Updated 09/03/2020

 

Face to Face


Carrie Breck

"Face to Face" is a hymn born from the collaboration of a poem written by Carrie Ellis Breck and music composed by Grant Tullar.

Carrie Ellis Breck was born January 22, 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, 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.

Grant Colfax Tullar (1869-1950) was an American minister, composer, and hymn writer. Tullar was born on August 5, 1869 in Bolton, Connecticut. His parents named him after President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Tullar's mother died when he was two, and his father was disabled from the Civil War, so he had a rough childhood. Tullar became a Methodist in 1888 at a Methodist camp meeting. From there, he attended Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey, going on to be a Methodist minister in Dover, Delaware. In 1893, he helped found the Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York City, where he composed and produced church and Sunday school music in hymns and hymnals.



Lyrics by Carrie Breck

  Face to face with Christ, my Savior,
Face to face--what will it be
When with rapture I behold Him,
Jesus Christ who died for me?

Chorus:
Face to face I shall behold Him,
Far beyond the starry sky;
Face to face in all His glory,
I shall see Him by and by!

Only faintly now I see Him
With the darkened veil between,
But a blessed day is coming
When His glory shall be seen.

Chorus

What rejoicing in His presence,
When are banished grief and pain;
When the crooked ways are straightened
And the dark things shall be plain.

Chorus

Face to face--oh, blissful moment!
Face to face--to see and know;
Face to face with my Redeemer,
Jesus Christ who loves me so.

Chorus