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Strength from the Cross

Author: F. H. Hedge Meter: Irregular Appears in 20 hymnals First Line: "It is finished!" Man of sorrows! Lyrics: “It is finished!” Man of sorrows! From thy cross our frailty borrows Strength to bear and conquer thus. While extended there we view thee, Mighty Sufferer! draw us to thee; Sufferer victorious! Not in vain for us uplifted, Man of sorrows, wonder-gifted! May that sacred emblem be; Lifted high amid the ages, Guide of heroes, saints, and sages, May it guide us still to thee! Still to thee! whose love unbounded Sorrow’s depths for us has sounded, Perfected by conflicts sore. Honored be thy cross forever; Star, that points our high endeavor Whither thou hast gone before!

Looking unto Jesus

Author: Mrs. Miles Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: It was no path of flowers Lyrics: It was no path of flowers, Which, through this world of ours, Beloved of the Father, thou didst tread; And shall we in dismay Shrink from the narrow way, When clouds and darkness are around it spread? O thou, who art our life, Be with us through the strife; Thy holy head by earth’s fierce storms was bowed; Raise thou our eyes above, To see a Father’s love Beam, like a bow of promise, through the cloud. And, O, if thoughts of gloom Should hover o’er the tomb, That light of love our guiding star shall be; Our spirits shall not dread The shadowy way to tread, Friend, Guardian, Saviour, which doth lead to thee.

Made Perfect Through Suffering

Author: Montgomery Appears in 503 hymnals First Line: Go to dark Gethsemane Lyrics: Go to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel temptation’s power, Your Redeemer’s conflict see, Watch with him one bitter hour; Turn not from his griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray! Follow to the judgment-hall, View the Lord of life arraigned; O the wormwood and the gall! O the griefs his soul sustained! Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; Learn of him to bear the cross! Calvary’s mournful mountain climb; There, admiring at his feet, Mark that miracle of time, Love’s own sacrifice complete; “It is finished,” hear him cry; Learn of Jesus Christ to die!

Strength Through Christ’s Sufferings

Appears in 76 hymnals First Line: When my love to Christ grows weak Lyrics: When my love to Christ grows weak, When for deeper faith I seek, Then in thought I go to thee, Garden of Gethsemane! There I walk amid the shades, While the lingering twilight fades, See that suffering, friendless One Weeping, praying there alone. When my love for Christ grows weak, When for stronger faith I seek, Hill of Calvary! I go To thy scenes of fear and woe;— There behold his agony, Suffered on the bitter tree; See his anguish, see his faith; Love triumphant still in death. Then to life I turn again, Learning all the worth of pain, Learning all the might that lies In a full self-sacrifice.

Glorying in the Cross

Author: Bowring Appears in 1,511 hymnals First Line: In the cross of Christ we glory, 1 Lyrics: In the cross of Christ we glory, Towering o’er the wrecks of time; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime. When the woes of life overtake us, Hopes deceive, and fears annoy; Never shall the cross forsake us, Lo! it glows with peace and joy! When the sun of bliss is beaming Light and love upon our way; From the cross the radiance streaming Adds more lustre to the day. Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, By the cross are sanctified; Peace is there that knows no measure, Joys that through all time abide. In the cross of Christ we glory, Towering o’er the wrecks of time; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.

Looking to Jesus

Author: Emily Taylor Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: If love, the noblest, purest, best Lyrics: If love, the noblest, purest, best, If truth, all other truth above, May claim return from every breast, O, surely Jesus claims our love! There’s not a hope with comfort fraught, Triumphant over death and time, But Jesus mingles in that thought, Forerunner of our course sublime. His image meets us in the hour Of joy, and brightens every smile; We see him, when the tempests lower, Each terror soothe, each grief beguile. We see him in the daily round Of social duty, mild and meek; With him we tread the hallowed ground, Communion with our God to seek. We see his pitying, gentle eye, When lonely want appeals for aid; We hear him in the frequent sigh, That mourns the waste that sin has made. We meet him at the lowly tomb, And weep where Jesus wept before; And there, above the grave’s dark gloom, We see him rise,—and weep no more.

The Divine Example

Author: Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 572 hymnals First Line: My dear Redeemer, and my Lord Lyrics: My dear Redeemer, and my Lord, I read my duty in thy word; But in thy life the law appears Drawn out in living characters. Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal, Such deference to thy Father’s will, Such love, and meekness so divine, I would transcribe, and make them mine. Cold mountains, and the midnight air, Witnessed the fervor of thy prayer; The desert thy temptations knew, Thy conflict, and thy victory too. Be thou my pattern; may I bear More of thy gracious image here; And, by the paths which thou hast trod, Press on to holiness and God.

Christ Who Strengtheneth Me

Author: Gaskell Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: When arise the thoughts of sin Lyrics: When arise the thoughts of sin, When the world our hearts would win, When, to selfish pleasure given, Droops the love that blooms for heaven; Lord, we would remember thee,— Thou wilt our Redeemer be. When, with footsteps faint and slow, Duty’s upward path we go; When, by toils and hardship pressed, Round we turn to look for rest; Lord, we would remember thee, Thou our Guide and Strength wilt be. When the way grows dark and drear, When, beset by doubt and fear, We can see no beam of light Struggling through the thickening night; Lord, we would remember thee, Thou our Comforter wilt be.

Following After Jesus

Author: Gaskell Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: In vain we thus recall to mind Lyrics: In vain we thus recall to mind The cross our Master bore, Unless a holier strength we find, And love his spirit more. May we, like him, though thanked with ill; Insulted, and withstood, In hope and patience labor still To do our brethren good. Like him may we, unmurmuring, go Our heaven-appointed way, And learn, ’midst gathering storms of woe, “God’s will be done!” to say.

Christ Present in the Spirit

Author: Whittier Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: O, What though our feet may not tread where Christ trod Lyrics: O, What though our feet may not tread where Christ trod, Nor our ears hear the dashing of Galilee’s flood, Nor our eyes see the cross that he bowed him to bear, Nor our knees press Gethsemane’s garden of prayer! Yet, Loved of the Father! thy spirit is near To the meek and the lowly and penitent here; And the voice of thy love is the same, even now, As at Bethany’s tomb, or on Olivet’s brow. O, the Outward has gone, but in glory and power The Spirit surviveth the things of an hour; Unchanged, undecaying, its Pentecost flame On the heart’s secret altar is burning, the same.