Glory to His Name

This song is technically classified as a hymn, but I must say I wish you could hear it sung with meaning as I did in days gone by in our worship services. There, it was sung more like a gospel song. I remember the days when after the communion, someone would break out in joyful adoration and praise of the Savior and more often than not, the words "Down at the Cross..." would begin this all time favorite. I never hear it that I don't think of my sister-in-law, Lillian, who has for some time now been singing in Her Lord's very Presence, no doubt these same words that expressed her heart time and again. The night I found out that she had passed away, I walked all around my house, with tears flowing, singing this hymn in her honor. The tune is here at Cyber Hymnal, but as I said, I wish you could hear it sung with soul as it was by some of the folks I used to know.

Down at the cross where my Savior died,
Down where for cleansing from sin I cried,
There to my heart was the blood applied;
Glory to His Name!

I am so wondrously saved from sin,
Jesus so sweetly abides within;
There at the cross where He took me in;
Glory to His Name!

Oh, precious fountain that saves from sin,
I am so glad I have entered in;
There Jesus saves me and keeps me clean;
Glory to His Name!

Come to this fountain so rich and sweet,
Cast thy poor soul at the Savior’s feet;
Plunge in today, and be made complete;
Glory to His Name!

Refrain

Glory to His Name, glory to His Name:
There to my heart was the blood applied;
Glory to His Name!