J B. Pounds (469/413) -- Hymns and Spiritual Songs

J B. Pounds 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, The way of the cross leads home; It is sweet to know, as I onward go, The way of the cross leads home. 2 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. 3 Then I bid farewell To the way of the world, To walk in it nevermore; For my Lord says “Come,” And I seek my home, Where He waits at the open door.