The Way of the Cross Leads Home

Text:  Jessie Brown Pounds  1906
Music:  Charles H. Gabriel  1906
Tune:  Way of the Cross  11.7.10.8R7.7.10.7
OHT Incipit:  56111 21334 32171

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Ames Hymn Collection

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