The Cyber Hymnal ‎#14502

14502. Him On Yonder Cross I Love

1 Him on yonder cross I love,
Naught beside on earth count dear!
May He mine for ever prove,
Who is now so inly near!
Here I stand: whate’er may come,
Days of sunshine or of gloom,
From this word I will not move;
Him upon the cross I love!

2 ’Tis not hidden from my heart,
What true love must often bring;
Want and grief have sorest smart,
Care and scorn can sharply sting;
Nay, but if Thy will were such,
Bitterest death were not too much!
Dark though here my course may prove:
Him upon the cross I love!

3 Rather sorrows such as these,
Rather love’s acutest pain,
Than without Him days of ease,
Riches false and honors vain.
Count me strange, when I am true,
What He hates I will not do;
Sneers no more my heart can move;
Him upon the cross I love!

4 Know ye whence my strength is drawn,
Fearless thus the fight to wage?
Why my heart can laugh to scorn
Fleshly weakness, Satan’s rage?
’Tis, I know the love of Christ,
Mighty is that love unpriced!
What can grieve me, what can move?
Him upon the cross I love!

5 Once the eyes that now are dim,
Shall discern the changeless love
That hath led us home to Him,
That hath crowned us far above:
Would to God that all below
What that love is now might know,
And their hearts this word approve:
Him upon the cross I love!

Text Information

• First Line: Him on yonder cross I love
• Title: Him On Yonder Cross I Love
• German Title: Der am Kreuz ist was ich meine
• Author: Johann C. Rube
• Translator: Catherine Winkworth
• Meter: 77.77 D
• Language: English
• Source: Frülings-Blumen, 1712; Tr.: Lyra Germanica (London and New York: George Newnes and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1855)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: BENEVENTO by Samuel Webbe, Sr.; CULFORD by Edward J. Hopkins, ENNIUS by Leonard C. Everett

Tune Information

• Name: ABERYSTWYTH
• Composer: Joseph Parry (1876)
• Meter: 77.77 D
• Key: e minor or modal
• Copyright: Public Domain