Al Calvario, solo Jesús ascendió

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1 Al Calvario solo Jesús ascendió
Llevando pesada cruz,
Y al morir en ella al mortal dejó
Un fanal de gloriosa luz.

Coro:
La cruz sólo me guiará,
La cruz sólo me guiará;
A mi hogar de paz y eterno amor,
La cruz sólo me guiará.

2 En la cruz el alma tan sólo hallará
La fuente de inspiración;
Nada grande y digno en el mundo habrá
Que en la cruz no halle aprobación. [Coro]

3 Yo por ella voy a mi hogar celestial,
El rumbo marcando está;
En mi oscura vida será el fanal
Y a su luz mi alma siempre irá. [Coro]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13644

Translator: Vicente Mendoza

Vicente Mendoza Born: De­cem­ber 24, 1875, Guad­a­la­ja­ra, Mex­i­co. Died: 1955, Mex­i­co Ci­ty, Mex­i­co. Mendoza stu­died in­i­tial­ly un­der Don Au­re­lio Or­te­ga. At age of 11 he went to work in a Pro­test­ant print shop in Mex­i­co Ci­ty and helped pro­duce El Evan­gel­is­ta Mex­i­ca­no (The Mex­i­can Evan­gel­ist) for the Meth­od­ist Church of the South; he rose to be­come its di­rect­or for 17 years. Look­ing to im­prove him­self, Men­do­za en­tered a night school for work­ers, but lat­er feel­ing the call to preach the Gos­pel, he en­tered the Pres­by­ter­i­an Sem­in­a­ry in Mex­i­co Ci­ty. When the sem­in­a­ry closed temp­o­rar­i­ly, Men­do­za en­tered the… Go to person page >

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

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First Line: Al Calvario solo Jesús ascendió
Title: Al Calvario, solo Jesús ascendió
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds (1906)
Translator: Vicente Mendoza
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Public Domain

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