The Old Rugged Cross Hymn Lyrics

And i love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.

The old rugged cross hymn lyrics.

The story behind the old rugged cross. 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. 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.

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. Mieras from chicago to sturgeon bay wisconsin where they held evangelistic meetings at the friends church from december 29 1912. 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. 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.