Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Jesus I my cross have taken
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 79
Page Number: 107, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJESUS, I my cross have taken,
All to leave, and follow thee;
Friendless, poor, despised, forsaken,
Thou, from hence, my all shalt be.
Perish, every fond ambition,
All I've sought, or hoped, or known;
Yet how rich is my condition,
God and heaven are still my own!
Let the world despise and leave me;
They have left my Saviour too:
Human hearts and looks deceive me-
Thou art not like them, untrue;
And while thou shalt smile upon me,
God of wisdom love and might,
Foes may hate and friends disown me;
Show thy face, and all is bright.
Go, then, earthly fame and treasure;
Come disaster, scorn and pain;
In thy service pain is pleasure;
With thy favor loss is gain.
I have call'd thee Abba, Father,-
I have set my heart on thee;
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather,
All must work for good to me.
Man may trouble and distress me,-
'Twill but drive me to thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me,-
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.
O! 't is not in grief to harm me;
While thy love is left to me;
O! 't were not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with thee!
Soul, then know thy full salvation;
Rise o'er sin, and fear and care;
Joy to find in every station,
Something still to do or bear.
Think what spirit dwells with thee;
Think what Father's smiles are thine;
Think that Jesus died to win thee;
Child of heaven, canst thou repine?
Haste thee on from grace to glory,
Arm'd by faith, and wing'd by prayer;
Heaven's eternal days before thee,
God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission,
Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope shall change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.