{"slug": "down-at-the-cross", "title": "Down at the Cross", "first_line": "Down at the cross where my Saviour died", "author": "elisha-a-hoffman", "author_date": "1878", "foot": "dactylic", "meter": {"pattern": [9, 9, 9, 5], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Blood", "Cross", "Redemption", "Testimony"], "scripture": ["Zechariah 13:1", "1 John 1:7", "Revelation 1:5"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "songs-of-joy-and-gladness-1885", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Elisha A. Hoffman (1839-1929). Transcribed syllable by syllable and mark by mark from the dated page image of Songs of Joy and Gladness (Boston: McDonald, Gill & Co., 1885), no. 138, printed page 117 \u2014 archive.org songsofjoygladne00mcdo_0 leaf n120 \u2014 headed \"Glory to His Name.\" over \"Words by Rev. Elisha Hoffman.\" (left) and \"Music by Rev. J. H. Stockton.\" (right), which prints all four stanzas under the staves and the chorus once. Collated word for word against the second, independent scan of the same 1885 edition, archive.org songsofjoygladne00mcdo leaf n120; the two agree letter for letter. AUTHOR DATE: the text is already in print in Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School, ed. Elisha A. Hoffman and J. H. Tenney (Cleveland: Samuel Barker, 1878), hymn 70 (archive.org spiritualsongsfo00hoff, leaf n73) \u2014 set there to a DIFFERENT tune by John R. Sweney with a different chorus, and reading \"Down at the cross where THE Savior died\"; 1878 is taken from that printing. US public domain: first printed 1878, the witness read is 1885, and the author died in 1929, so it is public domain in the US and in life+70 jurisdictions alike. PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING FOLLOW THE 1885 PAGE, which sets the British \"Saviour\", the elisions \"sav'd\" and \"enter'd\", the hyphenated \"to-day\", a lower-case \"his\" throughout \"Glory to his name\", a comma after the second \"Down,\" of stanza 1, a colon at the end of stanza 1 line 3 and of stanza 2 line 1, and semicolons elsewhere. The chorus is printed once, under the music of the last two systems.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "down_at_the_cross_where_my_savior_died", "total_instances": 715}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Down at the cross where my Sav -- iour died, Down, where for cleans -- ing from sin I cried; There to my heart was the blood ap -- plied: Glo -- ry to his name.", "prose": ["Down at the cross where my Saviour died,", "Down, where for cleansing from sin I cried;", "There to my heart was the blood applied:", "Glory to his name."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "I am so won -- drous -- ly sav'd from sin: Je -- sus so sweet -- ly a -- bides with -- in; There at the cross where he took me in, Glo -- ry to his name.", "prose": ["I am so wondrously sav'd from sin:", "Jesus so sweetly abides within;", "There at the cross where he took me in,", "Glory to his name."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Oh, pre -- cious foun -- tain, that saves from sin, I am so glad I have en -- ter'd in; There Je -- sus saves me and keeps me clean, Glo -- ry to his name.", "prose": ["Oh, precious fountain, that saves from sin,", "I am so glad I have enter'd in;", "There Jesus saves me and keeps me clean,", "Glory to his name."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Come to this foun -- tain, so rich and sweet; Cast thy poor soul at the Sav -- iour's feet; Plunge in to -- day, and be made com -- plete, Glo -- ry to his name.", "prose": ["Come to this fountain, so rich and sweet;", "Cast thy poor soul at the Saviour's feet;", "Plunge in to-day, and be made complete,", "Glory to his name."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Glo -- ry to his name. Glo -- ry to his name. There to my heart was the blood ap -- plied, Glo -- ry to his name.", "prose": ["Glory to his name. Glory to his name.", "There to my heart was the blood applied,", "Glory to his name."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}