Text:Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
Author:Henry Francis Lyte
Tune:ELLESDIE
Arranger:Hubert P. Main
Composer (attributed to):Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791)

279. Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

1 Jesus, I my cross have taken,
All to leave, and follow Thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my All shalt be:
Perish every fond ambition,
All I've sought, or hoped, or known;
Yet how rich is my condition:
God and heaven are still my own.

2 Man may trouble and distress me,
'Twill but drive me to Thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me,
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest;
O 'tis not in grief to harm me
While Thy love is left to me;
O 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with Thee.

3 Take, my soul, thy full salvation,
Rise o'er sin and fear and care;
Joy to find in every station
Something still to do or bear;
Think what Spirit dwells within thee,
What a Father's smile is thine,
What a Saviour died to win thee:
Child of heaven, shouldst thou repine?

4 Haste, then, on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith and winged by prayer;
Heaven's eternal day's before thee:
God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission;
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope soon change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Jesus, I my cross have taken
Title: Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
Author: Henry Francis Lyte (1824)
Meter: 8. 7. 8. 7. D.
Publication Date: 1955
Scripture: ;
Topic: Christ: Strength and Refuge; Contentment; Forgiveness (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ELLESDIE
Composer (attributed to): Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Arranger: Hubert P. Main (1872)
Meter: 8. 7. 8. 7. D.
Key: A Major
Notes: For lower key, see Hymn 20.



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