George Bennard wrote this beloved hymn among three hundred others Click To Tweet

How we are indebted to him for the endearing warmth – and the challenge – his words have brought to us! Following his marriage, he served the Lord as a Salvation Army officer for some years, before becoming an interdenominational evangelist in the United States and Canada. In Lucas, Iowa, George came to accept Christ in a Salvation Army meeting. Bennard was born into a coal-mining household in 1873, and eventually followed in his father’s footsteps, working in a mine to support his widowed mother and four sisters. George Bennard wrote this beloved hymn among three hundred others, but this is the one for which he is remembered, perhaps partly due to its widespread use by George Beverly Shea. If only the whole world knew and believed this! Those rough, wooden beams were not things to cherish in those days! Yet Jesus transformed the cross into an emblem of love and hope for the whole world. Then He’ll call me someday to my Home far away,Īs we approach Easter, we contemplate more and more the mystery and wonder of Jesus’ death on the Roman place of execution – the cross. To the old rugged cross I will ever be true – With no chance of reaching him directly or changing the past, he has one opportunity to reach him before they sell the house. His early onset of Alzheimer’s disease kept him from knowing his grandson.

Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,įor the dear Lamb of God left His glory above It is 2018, and Myrl Hartman is trapped in the house he died in 22 years ago. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,Īnd I love that old cross, where the dearest and best

Exchange it someday for a crown