Rugged Cross Meaning

Oh that old rugged cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me.

Rugged cross meaning. Refrain in the old rugged cross stained with blood so divine such a wonderful 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 br the emblem of suff ring and shame br and i love that old cross where the dearest and best br for a world of lost sinners was slain br so i ll cherish the old rugged cross br till my trophies at last i lay down br i will cling to the old rugged. 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. And i love that old cross where the dearest and best.

If someone approached you asking you to name america s most popular hymn no doubt many of you would respond with the old rugged cross it has been the most favored of the approximately 300. O that old rugged cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day. In the old rugged cross stained with blood so divine a wondrous beauty i see.

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suff ring and shame. For the dear lamb of god left his glory above to bear it to dark calvary. Chorus so i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down. Oh that old rugged cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me for the dear lamb of god left his glory above to bear it to dark calvary.

The story behind the old rugged cross. George bennard was a native of youngstown ohio but was reared in iowa after his conversion in a salvation army meeting he and his wife became brigade leaders before leaving the organization for the methodist church. Lyrics to the old rugged cross 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. For the dear lamb of god left his glory above to bear it to dark calvary.

The old rugged cross. For twas on that old cross jesus suffered and died to pardon and sanctify m. As a methodist evangelist 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. For a world of lost sinners was slain.

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. Meaning of the old rugged cross.