New Songs of Pentecost ‎#50

50. It is Written On the Cross

1 Do you seek from sin a pardon
When its weight oppresses sore?
Would you feel its heavy burden
Lifted from you evermore?
Have you sought in vain to find it
When earth offer’d naught but dross?
Look, the pardon there awaits you,
It is written on the cross.

Refrain:
It is written on the cross,
It is written on the cross;
“Come, ye weary, heavy laden,”
It is written on the cross.

2 Are you weary and discouraged?
Is it long till set of sun?
Do you wonder with each nightfall
If the guerdon shall be won?
Tired soul, for you the message
When life’s trials beat and toss,
“Come, ye weary, heavy laden,”
It is written on the cross. [Refrain]

3 Would you know a love unbounded,
Such as earth can never give?
Love that suffered ev’ry anguish
That you might forever live?
Love that gave all, gladly, freely,
Never counting gain or loss?
Love of Christ, so deep, so changeless,
It is written on the cross. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Do you seek from sin a pardon
• Title: It is Written On the Cross
• Author: Grace L. Hosmer
• Refrain First Line: It is written on the cross
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1916

Tune Information

• Name: [Do you seek from sin a pardon]
• Composer: C. Austin Miles