The Old Rugged Cross Hymn Lyrics

Oh that old rugged cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me for the dear lamb of god left his glory above to bear it to dark calvary so i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down i will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown in the old rugged cross stain d with.

The old rugged cross hymn lyrics. Mieras from chicago to sturgeon bay wisconsin where they held evangelistic meetings at the friends church from december 29 1912. So i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suff ring and shame and i love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown.

And i love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suff ring and shame. So i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown.

As a methodist evangelist george bennard wrote the first verse of the old rugged cross in albion michigan in the fall of 1912 as a response to ridicule that he had received at a revival meeting bennard traveled with ed e. So i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down.