Take Up the Cross

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They who would be my disciples

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [They who would be my disciples]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 They who would be my disciples,
Must patiently bear the cross,
Leaving the world behind them,
Counting it all but dross.

Chorus:
Then patiently bear the cross,
Thou soon shalt lay it down,
And wear, among the ransom'd,
A shining golden crown.

2 They who would share in my glory,
Must follow where'er I go,
Bearing with joy the burdens,
Laid on them here below. [Chorus]

3 They who would enter yon portal,
Where cometh no stain or dross,
Must walk in the way of denial,
And cheerfully bear the cross. [Chorus]

Source: Light and Life: a collection of new hymns and tunes for sunday schools, prayer meetings, praise meetings and revival meetings #16

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	They who would be my disciples
Title:	Take Up the Cross
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Then patiently bear the cross
Copyright:	Public Domain