THE WAY OF THE CROSS LEADS HOME
"If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his
cross and follow Me." Matthew 16:24
Words: Jessie Brown Pounds, in Living Praises No. 2, by Charles
Gabriel and W.W. Dowling (St. Louis, Missouri: Christian Publishing Co.,
1906).
Music: "Way of the Cross," Charles Hutchinson Gabriel.
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.
Refrain
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.
Refrain
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.