Near the cross I’ll watch and wait, hoping, trusting ever ![]() ![]() Help me walk from day to day with its shadow o’er me. Near the cross! O Lamb of God, bring its scenes before me. There the bright and morning star sheds its beams around me. Near the cross, a trembling soul, love and mercy found me. Jesus, keep me near the cross there a precious fountain.įree to all, a healing stream flows from Calvary’s mountain. ![]() On this special day of the year, Good Friday, I’m sharing it here with you. It was sung regularly in the Reformed Church I belonged to as a child, and since then I’ve sung it frequently during my own times of worship … and in the car … and anywhere really, despite having a slight qualm about the wording in a couple of lines. “In the Cross,” written by Fanny Crosby, is one of my favourite hymns.
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