| 1 | If we take up the cross, will we but suffer pain? |
| | Nay, if we bear the cross, be sure that we will die! |
| | The meaning of the cross is that we may be slain; |
| | The cross experienced the self will crucify. |
| 2 | Divine deliverance e’er slays man by the cross; |
| | Though cruel it may seem, it is a grand release. |
| | Christ ne’er will be our life if we escape the cross; |
| | Christ ne’er will be expressed but by our sure decease. |
| 3 | The cross’s final goal, that God’s will be fulfilled; |
| | His will’s arch enemy is but the self of man. |
| | If self be done away and all the soul-life killed, |
| | God’s will shall then prevail and prospered be His plan. |
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