Beneath the Cross of Jesus

Beneath the Cross of Jesus

Text written in 1872 by Elizabeth C. Clephane (1830-1869)

Sung to ST. CHRISTOPHER, composed in 1881 by Frederick C. Maker (1844-1927)

Beneath the Cross of Jesus

Isaiah 32:2 Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

V. 1 Beneath the cross of Jesus

I fain would take my stand,

The shadow of a mighty rock

Within a weary land;

A home within the wilderness,

A rest upon the way,

From the burning of the noontide heat,

And the burden of the day.

Matthew 27:36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.

V. 2 Upon that cross of Jesus

Mine eye at times can see

The very dying form of One

Who suffered there for me;

And from my smitten heart with tears

Two wonders I confess:

The wonders of redeeming love

And my unworthiness.

Galatians 6:14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 

V. 3 I take, O cross, they shadow

For my abiding place;

I ask no other sunshine than

The sunshine of His face;

Content to let the world go by,

To know no gain nor loss,

My sinful self my only shame,

My glory all the cross.