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Beneath The Cross Of Jesus

ST. CHRISTOPHER · 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 · words Elizabeth C. Clephane · music Frederick C. Maker

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Beneath The Cross Of Jesus times fur tried take at a my ing can ther and bid my eye on ref fain uge would the place; see side sweet, stand, take, on lies safe neath be O that and the O 1. Be 2. 5. I 4. Up 3. There shad Je shad shel Je sus ow ow ter, sus for cross, cross neath happ cross but O I thy of its y of mine of there deep jus wear His for and tice y shine sun suf gapes Heav in fered both en's a face; me; wide meet! land; ask ver dark tryst shad no y ness ing ow I The The O The shine of ful en's y of the Who that and with than One grave love rock er ing an where a oth dy of place might sun form aw Heav stretched dream on gain no ders out or con to was the I know won arms won rest to two two that a up drous loss, fess; save giv'n, way, tent from there to home in to my be the with And Con And As A the tri er with ho world heart stands ness, by tears cross arch go the en us pa the ly let strick tween wild un y der e den to the nal i the up of ter worth all the glor my bur lad that day. heav'n. grave. ness. cross. burn seems watch won sin man ing my ders ful From the So A The My tide to the ing ly and a from and my heat, me, way love shame, the ior's to self of set Sav of noon cross guard deem on my re Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1891 ST. CHRISTOPHER 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 Frederick C. Maker, 1891

1.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.

2.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 giv'n,
So seems my Savior's cross to me,
a ladder up to heav'n.

3.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.

4.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.

5.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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