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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 14.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST.

By S. A. W.

THEY gathered round the cross. Who gathered round? The lepers cleansed, the blind restored to sight, Captives of Satan with their chains unbound, The dead called from the grave to life and light.
They gathered round the cross. Who gathered round? The poor that heard the word, the hungry fed, The broken-hearted healed of every wound, They to whose arms he had restored the dead.
They gathered round the cross. Who gathered round? Women whose joy had been to soothe his woes, His mother—anguish, triumph in each wound— Her Son, her Saviour, suffered for his foes.
They gathered round the cross. Who gathered round? False priests that laughed, soldiers who mocked his pain, Proud Pharisees “whose garments swept the ground;” And thus upon the cross the Lord was slain.
They gathered round the cross: He closed his eyes, The day grew dark when death its work had done; Yet day so bright ne’er dawned on mortal eyes, For our salvation by the cross was won.—[S. A. W.