[#31]
Beneath the Cross of Jesus
Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand –
The shadow of a might 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 trusting place where heaven's love,
And heaven's justice meet!
As to the holy patriarch
That wondrous dream was given,
So seems my Saviour's cross to me,
A ladder up to heaven.
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 gain or loss –
My former life my only shame,
My glory all the cross.
[#282]
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
O love that would not let me go –
I rest my weary soul in Thee;
I give Thee back the life I owe
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
O, Light that followest all my way –
I yield my flick'ring torch to Thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in Thy sunshine's blaze its day
May brighter, fairer, be.
O Joy, that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not in vain
That morn shall tearless be.
O Cross, that liftest up my head,
I would not ask to fly from Thee;
E'en death's cold wave I need not dread,
For in Thy home where glories spread
My life shall endless be.