LYRICS
| Meter: | 10 8 10 8 and refrain
| | Writer(s): | Alfred Henry Ackley
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1922
| | Bible Refs: | Mk 8:34
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| 1. I walked one day
along a country road,
And there a stranger
journeyed, too,
Bent low beneath
the burden of His load:
It was a cross, a cross I knew.
Refrain.
“Take up thy cross and follow Me.”
I hear the blessèd Savior call;
How can I make a lesser sacrifice,
When Jesus gave His all?
2. I cried, “Lord Jesus,”
and He spoke my name;
I saw His hands
all bruised and torn;
I stooped to kiss away
the marks of shame,
The shame for me
that He had borne.
Refrain.
“Take up thy cross and follow Me.”
I hear the blessèd Savior call;
How can I make a lesser sacrifice,
When Jesus gave His all?
3. “O let me bear Thy cross,
dear Lord,” I cried,
And lo, a cross for me appeared,
The one forgotten I had cast aside,
The one, so long, that I had feared.
Refrain.
“Take up thy cross and follow Me.”
I hear the blessèd Savior call;
How can I make a lesser sacrifice,
When Jesus gave His all?
4. My cross I’ll carry
till the crown appears,
The way I journey soon will end
Where God Himself
shall wipe away all tears,
And friend hold
fellowship with friend.
Refrain.
“Take up thy cross and follow Me.”
I hear the blessèd Savior call;
How can I make a lesser sacrifice,
When Jesus gave His all?
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