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The Way Of The Cross Leads Home
- Words:
- Jesse Brown Pounds, 1906, tr. Vicente Mendoza
- Music:
- Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 1906
Sheet music
- 1I must needs go home by the way of the cross:There’s no other way but this;I shall ne’er get sight of the Gates of LightIf the way of the cross I miss.The way of the cross leads home, (leads home,)The way of the cross leads home; (leads home;)It is sweet to know, as I onward go,The way of the cross leads home.
- 2I must needs go on in the blood-sprinkled way,The path that the Savior trod,If I ever climb to the heights sublime,Where the soul is at home with God.The way of the cross leads home, (leads home,)The way of the cross leads home; (leads home;)It is sweet to know, as I onward go,The way of the cross leads home.
- 3Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,To walk in it never more;For my Lord says, “Come,” and I seek my home,Where He waits at the open door.The way of the cross leads home, (leads home,)The way of the cross leads home; (leads home;)It is sweet to know, as I onward go,The way of the cross leads home.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1906, the words are in 303 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are 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.