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Play “Take Up Thy Cross, the Savior Said”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Take Up Thy Cross, the Savior Said (Charles W. Everest): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.

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  1. 1"Take up thy cross," the Saviour said,
  2. "If thou wouldst My disciple be;
  3. Take up thy cross with willing heart,
  4. And humbly follow after Me."
  5. 2Take up thy cross; let not its weight
  6. Fill thy weak soul with vain alarm;
  7. His strength shall bear thy spirit up,
  8. Sustain thy heart, and nerve thine arm.
  9. 3Take up thy cross, nor heed the shame,
  10. And let thy foolish pride rebel;
  11. The Lord for thee the cross endured,
  12. To save thy soul from death and hell.
  13. 4Take up thy cross, then, in His strength,
  14. And calmly sin's wild deluge brave;
  15. 'Twill guide thee to a better home,
  16. It points to glory o'er the grave.
  17. 5Take up thy cross, and follow Christ,
  18. Nor think till death to lay it down;
  19. For only he who bears the cross
  20. May hope to wear the glorious crown.
  21. 6Amen.

About this music

OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Take Up Thy Cross, the Savior Said page.

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