The Way of the Cross (Repeat)

‘I must needs go home by the way of the cross,There's no other way but this;I shall ne'er get sight of the gates of light,If the way of the cross I miss.The way of the cross leads home, (leads home,)The way of the cross leads home; (leads home;)It is sweet to know as I onward go,The way of cross leads home.‘I must needs go on in the blood sprinkled way,The path that the Savior trod,If I ever climb to the heights sublime,Where the soul is at home with God.‘Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,To walk in it nevermore;For the Lord says, "Come," and I seek my homeWhere He waits at the open door.’—Jessie Brown Pounds (1861-1921)