Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in me thine all in all.
The music of the chorus helped to fix its words in the common mind, and some idea of the Atonement acceptable, apparently, to both Arminians and Calvinists; for Sunday-school children in the families of both, hummed the tune or sang the refrain when alone—
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe,
Sin had left a crimson stain;
He washed it white as snow.
THE TUNE.
John Thomas Grape, who wrote the music, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 6, 1833. His modest estimate of his work appears in his remark that he “dabbled” in music for his own amusement. Few composers have amused themselves with better results.