Sing Old Time Melody

The Old Rugged Cross

1.  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.

o        Refrain:

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.

2.  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.

3.  In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.

4.  To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.

And he bearing his cross

went forth into a place

called the place of a skull,

which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 

Where they crucified him,

and two others with him,

on either side one,

and Jesus in the midst. 

And Pilate wrote a title,

and put it on the cross.

And the writing was,

JESUS OF NAZARETH

THE KING OF THE JEWS. 

John 19:17-19