Cross and Comfort
Beneath The Cross Of Jesus
- Words:
- Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1868.
- Music:
- 'St. Christopher' Frederick C. Maker, 1881.
- Setting:
- "Bristol Tune-Book", 1891.
- Metre:
- 7 6 8 6 8 6 8 6
- 1Beneath 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.
- 2O safe and happy shelter,O refuge tried and sweet,O trysting place where Heaven's loveand Heaven's justice meet!As to the holy patriarchthat wondrous dream was giv'n,So seems my Savior's cross to me,a ladder up to heav'n.
- 3There lies beneath its shadowbut on the further sideThe darkness of an awful gravethat gapes both deep and wideAnd there between us stands the crosstwo arms outstretched to saveA watchman set to guard the wayfrom that eternal grave.
- 4Upon that cross of Jesusmine eye at times can seeThe very dying form of OneWho suffered there for me;And from my stricken heart with tearstwo wonders I confess;The wonders of redeeming loveand my unworthiness.
- 5I take, O cross, thy shadowfor my abiding place;I ask no other sunshine thanthe sunshine of His face;Content to let the world go byto know no gain or loss,My sinful self my only shame,my glory all the cross.
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- Written in 1868, the words are in 625 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, St. Christopher, is in 519 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.