The Way of the Cross Leads Home
Words by Jessie B. Pounds, in Living Praises No. 2, by Charles Gabriel
and W. W. Dowling (St. Louis, Missouri: Christian Publishing Co., 1906)
Music by Charles H. Gabriel
Click to play or Right-click to download MIDI file
Click to view or Right-click to download PIANO score with lyrics
Courtesy of The Cyber Hymnal
From "The Man of the Desert " Page 263
I must needs go home by the way of the cross,
There’s no other way but this;
I shall ne’er get sight of the gates of light,
If the way of the cross I miss.
The way of the cross leads home,
The way of the cross leads home,
It is sweet to know as I onward go,
The way of the cross leads home.
I must needs go on in the blood sprinkled way,
The path that the Savior trod,
If I ever climb to the heights sublime,
Where the soul is at home with God.
The way of the cross leads home,
The way of the cross leads home,
It is sweet to know as I onward go,
The way of the cross leads home.
Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
To walk in it never more;
For the Lord says, “Come,” and I seek my home,
Where He waits at the open door.
The way of the cross leads home,
The way of the cross leads home,
It is sweet to know as I onward go,
The way of the cross leads home.