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Text: | Take Up Your Cross |
Author: | Charles W. Everest, 1814-1877 |
Tune: | BRESLAU |
1 Take up your cross, the Savior said,
If you would my disciple be;
Take up your cross with willing heart,
And humbly follow after me.
2 Take up your cross, let not its weight
Fill your weak spirit with alarm;
My strength shall bear your spirit up,
And brace your heart, and nerve your arm.
3 Take up your cross, heed not the shame,
And let your foolish heart be still;
The Lord for you accepted death
Upon a cross, on Calvary's hill.
4 Take up your cross, then, in his strength,
And calmly ev'ry danger brave;
It guides you to a better home
And leads to vict'ry o'er the grave.
5 Take up your cross, and follow Christ,
Nor think till death to lay it down;
For only those who bear the cross
May hope to wear the glorious crown.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Take up your cross, the Savior said |
Title: | Take Up Your Cross |
Author: | Charles W. Everest, 1814-1877 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2015 |
Topic: | Cross |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BRESLAU |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major or modal |
Source: | As Hymnodus Sacer, Leipzig, 1625 |