Never further than Thy Cross (Alternate Tune)

Never further than Thy Cross

Never higher than Thy feet

Here earth’s precious things seem dross

Here earth’s bitter things grow sweet.

Gazing thus our sin we see

Learn Thy love while gazing thus;

Sin which laid the Cross on Thee;

Love which bore the Cross for us.

Here we learn to serve and give

And rejoicing

self deny;

Here we gather love to live;

Here we gather faith to die.

Symbols of our liberty

And our service here unite;

Captives

by Thy Cross set free;

Soldiers of Thy Cross

we fight.

Pressing onwards as we can

Still to this our hearts must tend;

Where our earliest hopes began

There our last aspirings end.

Till amid the hosts of light

We in Thee redeemed

complete

Through Thy Cross made pure and white

Cast our crowns before Thy feet.