The Way of the Cross Leads Home

[CFU_Christians]

I've been humming this song today and felt led to share the lyrics with you. This song should bring us peace and comfort in troubled times. Our world is in troubled times, folks. So much unrest and anger surrounds us. But we have hope knowing this world is not our home.

The Way of the Cross Leads Home

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.

Refrain

Words: Jess­ie B. Pounds, in Liv­ing Praises No. 2, by Charles Gab­ri­el and W. W. Dow­ling (St. Lou­is, Mis­souri: Christ­ian Pub­lish­ing Co., 1906).

Music: Charles H. Gab­ri­el (MI­DI, score).

"If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me." Matthew 16:24