Hail the Sign, the Sign of Jesus Bright and royal Tree! Standard of the Monarch, planted First on Calvary! Hail the Sign all signs excelling Hail the Sign all ills dispelling Hail the Sign hell's power quelling Cross of Christ, all hail! Hail the Sign all signs excelling Hail the Sign all ills dispelling Hail the Sign hell's power quelling Cross of Christ, all hail! Sign the martyrs' strength and refuge Sign to saints so dear! sign of evil men abhorred Sign which devils fear Sign which, when the Lord returneth In the heavens shall be Sinners quail, while saints with rapture Shall the vision see Lo, I sign the cross of Jesus Meekly on my breast May it guard my heart when living Dying be its rest Lo, I sign the cross of Jesus Meekly on my breast May it guard my heart when living Dying be its rest In the name of God the Father Name of God the Son Name of God the blessed Spirit Ever Three in One Hail the Sign all signs excelling Hail the Sign all ills dispelling Hail the Sign hell's power quelling Cross of Christ, all hail! In the name of God the Father Name of God the Son Name of God the blessed Spirit Ever Three in One

Let me dwell on Golgotha Weep and love my life away! While I see Him on the tree Weep and bleed, and die for me! Hark! His dying words; Forgive Father, let the sinner live Sinner, wipe thy tears away I thy ransom freely pay While I hear this grace revealed And obtain a pardon sealed All my soft affections move Wakened by the force of love Let me dwell on Golgotha Weep and love my life away! While I see Him on the tree Weep and bleed, and die for me! Farewell world, thy gold is dross Now I see the bleeding cross Jesus died to set me free From the law, and sin, and thee! He has dearly bought my soul Lord, accept, and claim the whole! To Thy will I all resign Now, no more of my own, but Thine Let me dwell on Golgotha Weep and love my life away! While I see Him on the tree Weep and bleed, and die for me! That dear blood, for sinners spilt Shows my sin in all its guilt Ah, my soul, He bore thy load Thou hast slain the Lamb of God

In anger, Lord, rebuke me not Withdraw the dreadful storm Nor let Thy fury grow so hot Against a feeble worm My soul's bowed down with heavy cares My flesh with pain oppressed My couch is witness to my tears My tears forbid my rest In anger, Lord, rebuke me not Withdraw the dreadful storm Nor let Thy fury grow so hot Against a feeble worm Sorrow and pain wear out my days I waste the night with cries Counting the minutes as they pass Till the slow morning rise Shall I be still tormented more? Mine eye consumed with grief? How long, my God, how long before Thine hand afford relief? He hears when dust and ashes speak He pities all our groans He saves us for His mercy's sake And heals our broken bones The virtue of His sovereign Word Restores our fainting breath For silent graves praise not the Lord Nor is He known in death

From the depths of sin and failure From despair as black as night Lord, we hear our brothers calling For deliverance and for light Use us, Lord, to speed Thy kingdom Through us may Thy will be done Give us eyes to see the vision Of a world redeemed and won By the love that bore in silence Man's contempt and Satan's dart By the longing for the lost ones That consumes the Savior's heart By the Savior's blood that bought us By the peace He merits bring By the Spirit that constrains us Now on earth to crown Him King By the love By the blood By the peace By the spirit By the Son By the grace By the cross By GOD!

Carrying his own cross, he went out To the place of the Skull There they crucified him, and the criminals One on his right and one on his left At the place called the Skull He humbled himself And became obedient unto death Even the death of the cross Every tongue should confess That Jesus Christ is Lord To the glory of God the Father

When the storms of life are raging Stand by me (stand by me) When the world is tossing me Like a ship upon the sea Thou who rulest wind and water Stand by me (stand by me) In the midst of tribulation Stand by me (stand by me) When the hosts of hell assail And my strength begins to fail Thou who never lost a battle Stand by me (stand by me) In the midst of faults and failures Stand by me (stand by me) When I do the best I can And my friends misunderstand Thou who knowest all about me Stand by me (stand by me) In the midst of persecution Stand by me (stand by me) When my foes in battle array Undertake to stop my way Thou who saved Paul and Silas Stand by me (stand by me) When I'm growing old and feeble Stand by me (stand by me) When my life becomes a burden And I'm nearing chilly Jordon O Thou Lily of the Valley Stand by me (stand by me) When the storms of life are raging When the world is tossing me In the midst of tribulation When my strength begins to fail YOU STAND BY ME When I'm growing old and feeble When my life becomes a burden And I'm nearing chilly Jordan O Thou Lily of the Valley YOU STAND BY ME

This is my prayer to God most high That we may gather by and by Around the throne where angels dwell But for a while farewell, farewell Farewell, my friends, since we must part The separation grieves my heart The Master doeth all things well And yet I grieve to say farewell But peace, my soul! that painful word Shall cease to pierce as with a sword When angels come the news to tell That we may bid all grief farewell Till then, let's hope and trust and pray And wait, and watch for that sweet day When we'll gone home, with Christ to dwell Where friends no more shall say farewell

Great Apollyon, grim and awful Steeped in gore and stained in blood Death, with all his fearsome forces Has besieged the Son of God Satan, clothed with evil armor Darkly gleaming, proud and cold Merciless, he joins the battle Armed and clad with pow'r untold Bowed beneath demonic onslaughts Jesus fights His awesome duel! Pain devours its Holy Victim Searing, savage, raging, cruel! Eager waits the Mouth of Sheol Huge, insatiable, and strong! Maw agape, the Grave yearns after Holy Flesh--but not for long Writhing under Law's most fearsome Cruse, ruined, lost, polluted, wrecked Languishing in Satan's prison Lie the souls of God's elect At the Cross--desire of Hell! Christ gives up that final Breath Now, at last, the choicest Captive Tastes the mortal sting of Death! Darkness falls, the seething smoke of Hell Cloaks the battlefield from view Down the head of God has fallen Law and Wrath receive their due! Satan smiles in seeming triumph Reaching out, his Prize to take Three brief days all Hell rejoices Then the stone begins to shake! Now the night of wrong is ended Now the Grave has lost its Prize! Now the Ris'n One breaks the back of Sin There! Behold! See how Death dies! Resurrection Light now scatters Satan's armies from the field Christ has drawn the fearful sting of Death Sheol and Abaddon yield! At His Glance the mighty prison Built by Law and Sin falls down! Countless in their thousand thousands All His Ransomed praise His Crown! Heav'n and Hell's astonished spirits In their joy and rage all stare At the Victor of the Cross who Won His greatest Battle there

Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, Hide my sins and shelter me; Claim or merit I have none, I am vile and all undone; I to Thee for succor fly-- Give me refuge, or I die. Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, All my hopes are hung on thee. Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, Let me to thy shadow flee; Here they mocked the Crucified, Here the royal sufferer died; Here was shed the atoning blood, Till it crimsoned all the sod; Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, Can the guilty trust in thee? Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, Type of love's deep mystery. 'Twas my sins provoked this love, I this matchless passion moved; For my soul this love was stored; On my head the blessing poured; Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, Now I solve love's mystery. Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, This my boast shall ever be, That the blood for me was shed, That for me He groaned and bled; Now I catch that gracious eye, Now I know I shall not die; Cross of Christ, O sacred tree, All my guilt is lost in thee!

And am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply With nature's stern decree? How then ought I on earth to live While God prolongs the kind reprieve What after death for me remains? Celestial joys, or hellish pains To all eternity? And props the house of clay? My sole concern, my single care To watch, and tremble, and prepare Against the fatal day No room for mirth or trifling here For worldly hope, or worldly fear If life so soon is gone If now the Judge is at the door Nothing is worth a thought beneath Now how I may escape the death That never, never dies How make mine own election sure And, when I fail on earth, secure A mansion in the skies And all mankind must stand before The inexorable throne! No matter which my thoughts employ A moment's misery, or joy But O! when both shall end Where shall I find my destined place? Shall I my everlasting days With fiends, or angels spend? Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray Be Thou my guide, be Thou my way To glorious happiness To happiness Ah, write the pardon on my heart And whensoe'er I hence depart Let me depart, depart in peace Ah, write the pardon on my heart And whensoe'er I hence depart Let me depart, depart in peace Ah, write the pardon on my heart And whensoe'er I hence depart Let me depart, depart in peace

God's glory is a wondrous thing Most strange in all its ways And, of all things on earth, least like What men agree to praise Workman of God, O lose not heart But learn what God is like! And, in the darkest battlefield Thou shalt know where to strike O blest is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God is on the field when He Is most invisible! Blest too is he who can divine Where real right doth lie And dares to take the side that seems Wrong to man's blindfold eye For right is right, since God is God And right the day must win To doubt would be disloyalty To falter would be sin God's glory is a wondrous thing Most strange in all its ways And, of all things on earth, least like What men agree to praise Workman of God, O lose not heart But learn what God is like! And, in the darkest battlefield Thou shalt know where to strike

It was alone the Savior prayed In dark Gethsemane Alone He drained the bitter cup And suffered there for me It was alone the Savior stood In Pilate's judgment hall Alone the crown of thorns He wore Forsaken thus by all Alone, alone, He bore it all alone He gave Himself to save His own He suffered, bled and died alone Alone, alone, He bore it all alone Can you reject such matchless love? Can you His claim disown? Alone upon the cross He hung That others He might save Forsaken then by God and man Alone, His life He gave Come, give your all in gratitude Nor leave Him thus alone (It was alone the Savior prayed In dark Gethsemane Alone He drained the bitter cup And suffered there for me It was alone the Savior stood In Pilate's judgment hall Alone the crown of thorns He wore Forsaken thus by all) Alone, alone, He bore it all alone He gave Himself to save His own He suffered, bled and died alone Alone, alone, He bore it all alone

Behold the Savior of the world Embrued with sweat and gore Expiring on that shameful cross Where He our sorrows bore! Compassion for lost human race Brought down God's only Son To veil in flesh His radiant face And for their sins atone Who can to love His name forbear That of His sufferings hears And finds, the ransom of his soul Was blood as well as tears? Thy sacred blood, O Son of God! Which ran from many a wound When earth and hell's malicious powers All compassed Thee around Joy for Thy torments we receive Life in Thy death have found For the reproaches of Thy cross Shall be with glory crowned May we a grateful sense retain Of Thy redeeming love! And live below like those that hope To live with Thee above!

In the heat of the early morning On a hill they call the Skull The roaring of the angry mob had settled to a lull All eyes were cast upon the man whose hands and feet were bound They saw him cry in anguish when they heard the hammer pound They watched the bloody woven thorns with which His head was crowned They watched the bloody cross of wood be dropped into the ground The soldiers gambled for His clothes, they watched them win and lose They saw the sign above His head that said "King of the Jews" (It is finished) And the sky grew black as the night (It is finished) And the people scattered in fright The work had been done, redemption had been won The war was over without a fight It is finished They searched His face for anger, for vengeance in His stare Instead of eyes that burned with hate a look of love was there He prayed for their forgiveness and bowed His battered head And no one knew the meaning of the final words He said The provision has been made The foundation has been laid He paid the ransom due and tore the temple veil in two And opened up the way for me and you It is finished