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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Near the cross our station taking (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Near the cross our station taking

Topic: Christ/Cross

Writer: J Alexander

Composer: Anonymous

Meter: 8s and 7s particular

Tune: Mary

Hymn Number: 580

Page Number: 209, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

NEAR the cross our station taking,

Earthly cares and joys forsaking,

Meet it is for us to mourn;

'Twas for us He came from heaven,

'Twas for us His heart was riven;

All His griefs for us were borne.



When no eye its pity gave us,

When there was no arm to save us,

He His love and pow'r display'd;

By His stripes our help and healing,

By His death our life revealing,

He for us the ransom paid.