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Beneath The Cross Of
Jesus
Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and
I to the world.
Words: Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1868.
Music: “St. Christopher,”
Frederick C. Maker, in the Bristol Tune Book, 1881.
Beneath the
cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty rock within
a weary land;
A home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way,
From the
burning of the noontide heat, and the burden of the day.
O safe and happy
shelter, O refuge tried and sweet,
O trysting place where Heaven’s love and
Heaven’s justice meet!
As to the holy patriarch that wondrous dream was
given,
So seems my Savior’s cross to me, a ladder up to heaven.
There
lies beneath its shadow but on the further side
The darkness of an awful
grave that gapes both deep and wide
And there between us stands the cross two
arms outstretched to save
A watchman set to guard the way from that eternal
grave.
Upon that cross of Jesus mine eye at times can see
The very
dying form of One Who suffered there for me;
And from my stricken heart with
tears two wonders I confess;
The wonders of redeeming love and my
unworthiness.
I take, O cross, thy shadow for my abiding place;
I ask
no other sunshine than the sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world go
by to know no gain or loss,
My sinful self my only shame, my glory all the
cross.
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