Sun, Apr 15th - 10:42AM

The Way of the Cross Leads Home

By Jessie Brown Pounds

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.

I must needs go on the in the blood-sprinkled way,

The path that the Saviour trod,

If I ever climb to the heights sub-lime,

Where the soul is at home with God.

Then I bid fare-well 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.

Chorus

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.

This hymn expresses perfectly the thought that I attempted to express yesterday on my post on "A Voice in the Wilderness."  It is to our shame that we have allowed such hymns to fall into disuse in our modern churches.