Never further than thy cross

Never further than thy cross. Elizabeth Rundle Charles* (1828-1896). Five of the six stanzas of this hymn were included in the New Congregational Hymn Book (1859), and then in a Christian magazine edited by William Arnot, The Family Treasury (February 1860). It was reprinted in Charles’s Songs Old and New (1894). The six stanzas were: Never further than Thy Cross! Never higher than Thy feet! Here earth’s precious things grow 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...