Missions
'Take Up Thy Cross', the Savior Said
- Words:
- Charles W. Everest, 1833. Music: 'Nun Lasst Uns Den Leib Begraben' George Rhau, 1544.
- Setting:
- "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book", 1931.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1"Take up thy cross," the Savior said,"If thou wouldst My disciple be;Deny thyself, the world forsake,And humbly follow after Me."
- 2Take up thy cross, let not its weightFill thy weak spirit with alarm;His strength shall bear thy spirit up,And brace thy heart and nerve thine arm.
- 3Take up thy cross, nor heed the shame,Nor let thy foolish pride rebel;Thy Lord for thee the cross endured,And saved thy soul from death and hell.
- 4Take up thy cross then in His strength,And calmly sin's wild deluge brave,'Twill guide thee to a better home,It points to glory o'er the grave.
- 5Take up thy cross and follow Christ,Nor think til death to lay it down;For only those who bear the crossMay hope to wear the glorious crown.
- 6To Thee, great Lord, the One in Three,All praise forevermore ascend:O grant us in our home to seeThe heavenly life that knows no end.
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Topics
- Anticipation
- Atonement
- Calmness
- Christian Life
- Closing Songs
- Comfort
- Commitment
- Courage in Affliction
- Cross
- Crown
- Discipleship
- Duty (see also Law)
- Eternal Life
- Example, Christ's
- Following Jesus, In Faith
- Following Jesus, In Action
- Humility
- Jesus
- Obedience
- Pride (see also Humility)
- Sacrifice
- Salvation
- Submission (see also Following Jesus, God - Providence of, Trust)
- Trinity
In the hymnals
- Written in 1833, the words are in 315 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
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.