The Cross of Christ
God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
— Gal. 6:14.
O CROSS of my Saviour! I adore Thee, I embrace thee with the most profound humility, the most ardent love.
O CROSS, how happy art thou to have pillowed the thorn-crowned head of the Holy of Holies, and supported His nail-pierced feet! Thou art forever sanctified by the body of Jesus and consecrated by His blood.
THOU art the bed of pain which heard the last words and received the last sigh of the Son of God; the altar upon which He offered Himself for the sins of the world. Thou art the Ark of the Covenant bearing the Author of the Old and the New Testament, the urn of gold enclosing the hidden Manna, the treasury of the riches of heaven.
