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Music & HymnsThe Way Of The Cross Leads Home

"If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me." Matthew 16:24

Words: Jessie Brown Pounds, in Living Praises No. 2, by Charles Gabriel and W. W. Dowling (St. Louis, Missouri: Christian Publishing Co., 1906).

Music: "Way of the Cross," Charles Hutchinson Gabriel

I 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 light,
If the way of the cross I miss.

Refrain

The way of the cross leads home,
The way of the cross leads home,
It is sweet to know as I onward go,
The way of the cross leads home.

I 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.

Refrain

Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
To walk in it never more;
For the Lord says, "Come," and I seek my home,
Where He waits at the open door.

Refrain

Hymns supplied through the gracious generosity of the Cyber Hymnal Website