This hymn was written in 1868 by Elizabeth C. Clephane, and published posthumously in 1872 in the "Family Treasury", a Scottish Presbyterian magazine. The editor introduced the hymn with the following: "These lines express the experiences, the hopes and longings of a young Christian lately released. Written on the very edge of life, with the better land fully in view of faith......".
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Verse 1:
Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand----
The shadow of a mighty Rock
Within a weary land;
A home within the wilderness,
A rest upon the way,
From burning of the noontide heat,
And the burden of the day.
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Verse 2:
O safe and happy shelter
O refuge tried and sweet.
O trysting place where
Heaven's love and Heaven's justice meet!
As to the holy patriarch
That wondrous dream was given,
So seems my Savior's cross to me,
A ladder up to Heaven.
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Verse 3:
Upon the cross of Jesus
Mine eye at times can see
The very dying form of One
Who suffered there for me;
And from my smitten heart with tears
Two wonders I confess----
The wonders of redeeming love
And my unworthiness.
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Verse 4:
I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding place;
I ask no other sunshine
Than the sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world go by,
To know no gain nor loss,
My sinful self my only shame,
My glory all the Cross.
AMEN
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Cyberhymnal link: www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/t/btcjesus.htm
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