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If we take the cross, will we but suffer pain?

1.If we take the cross, will we but suffer pain?
Nay, if we bear the cross, be sure that we will
die!
The meaning of the cross is that we may be
slain;
The cross experienced the self will crucify.
2.Divine deliverance e'er slays man by the cross;
Though cruel it may seem, it is a grand release.
Christ ne'er will be our life if we escape the
cross;
Christ ne'er will be expressed but by our sure
decease.
3.The cross's final goal, that God's will be
fulfilled;
His will's arch enemy is but the self of man.
If self be done away and all the soul-life killed,
God's will shall then prevail and prospered be
His plan.