WB 22 Theme Song~* At the Cross

I love hymns and this of course is one I love to sing.

Today we studied:

• did the Theme Song WS
  




• copied the hymn
  




• did a who/what/when/where study on Isaac Watts
  
  It is time to purchase a new "How to Make Melody in your Heart to the Lord" http://store.iblp.org/products/CMMH1/ Mine is all scratched up but we did manage to get some of the history.My daughter laughed the entire time as it paused then repeated etc.There was no hymn history of this song in any of the hymn history books I have so we studied Isaac Watts.
  
  History of Isaac Watts http://www.victorshepherd.on.ca/Sermons/isaac.htm
  
  At The Cross
  Words by Isaac Watts 1707, Music by Ralph E.Hudson 1885
  
  Alas, and did my Savior bleed?
  And did my Sovereign die?
  Would He devote that sacred head
  For such a worm as I?
  
  Refrain
  At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
  And the burden of my heart rolled away,
  It was there by faith I received my sight,
  And now I am happy all the day!
  Was it for crimes that I had done,
  He groaned upon the tree?
  Amazing pity! grace unknown!
  And love beyond degree!
  
  Refrain
  At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
  And the burden of my heart rolled away,
  It was there by faith I received my sight,
  And now I am happy all the day!
  Well might the sun in darkness hide,
  And shut his glories in,
  When Christ, the mighty Maker died,
  For man the creature's sin.
  
  Refrain
  At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
  And the burden of my heart rolled away,
  It was there by faith I received my sight,
  And now I am happy all the day!
  But drops of grief can ne'er repay
  The debt of love I owe:
  Here, Lord, I give my self away
  'Tis all that I can do.
  
  Refrain
  At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
  And the burden of my heart rolled away,
  It was there by faith I received my sight,
  And now I am happy all the day!