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<h2>CROSS OF JESUS</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 6:14</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_t_stainer_j.jpg" alt="John Stainer (1840-1901)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="132" height="176.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_p_sparrowsimpson_wj.html" target="_blank">William John Sparrow-Simpson</a>, 1887. This hymn was created for inclusion in Stainer’s oratorio, “The Crucifixion.”</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_t_stainer_j.html" target="_blank">John Stainer</a>, 1887 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_crossofj.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow,<br>
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Where the blood of Christ was shed,<br>
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Perfect Man on thee did suffer,<br>
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Perfect God on thee has bled!</p>
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<p>Here the King of all the ages,<br>
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Throned in light ere worlds could be,<br>
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Robed in mortal flesh is dying,<br>
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Crucified by sin for me.</p>
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<p>O mysterious condescending!<br>
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O abandonment sublime!<br>
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Very God Himself is bearing<br>
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All the sufferings of time!</p>
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<p>Evermore for human failure<br>
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By His passion we can plead;<br>
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God has born all mortal anguish,<br>
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Surely He will know our need.</p>
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<p>This—all human thought surpassing—<br>
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This is earth’s most awful hour,<br>
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God has taken mortal weakness!<br>
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God has laid aside His Power!</p>
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<p>Once the Lord of brilliant seraphs,<br>
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Winged with love to do His will,<br>
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Now the scorn of all His creatures,<br>
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And the aim of every ill.</p>
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<p>Up in Heaven, sublimest glory<br>
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Circled round Him from the first;<br>
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But the earth finds none to serve Him,<br>
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None to quench His raging thirst.</p>
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<p>Who shall fathom that descending,<br>
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From the rainbow circled throne,<br>
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Down to earth’s most base profaning,<br>
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Dying desolate alone.</p>
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<p>From the “Holy, Holy, Holy,<br>
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We adore Thee, O most High,”<br>
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Down to earth’s blaspheming voices<br>
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And the shout of “Crucify.”</p>
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<p>Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow,<br>
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Where the blood of Christ was shed,<br>
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Perfect Man on thee did suffer,<br>
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Perfect God on thee has bled!</p>
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