GHS 79 : The Way Of The Cross Leads Home Lyrics
GHS 79, “The Way Of The Cross Leads Home,” is a pilgrim hymn of determined, joyful direction. Written by Jessie B. Pounds with music by Charles H. Gabriel, the hymn holds together two things that might seem to contradict each other: the necessity of the cross and the sweetness of the journey. There is no other way to reach the Gates of Light. There is no shortcut home that avoids the blood-sprinkled path. But the refrain does not say this with grimness; it says it is sweet to know, as you press onward, that the way of the cross leads home. The cross is not an obstacle on the road to home; it is the road itself.
This hymn appears as number 79 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa.
Hymn Lyrics – GHS 79: The Way Of The Cross Leads Home
- 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, 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.
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I must needs go on in the blood-sprinkled way, The path that the Saviour trod; If I ever climb to the heights sublime, Where the soul is at home with God.
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Then 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.
