Must Needs

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• I encounter this phrase at least monthly in one of my favorite hymns “The Way of The Cross Leads Home” (1906):

  I must needs go home by the way of the cross,
  There’s no other way but this;
  I shall ne’er get sight of the Gates of Light,
  If the way of the cross I miss.

  Refrain:
  The way of the cross leads home,
  The way of the cross leads home;
  It is sweet to know, as I onward go,
  The way of the cross leads home.

  I must needs go on in the blood-sprinkled way,
  The path that the Savior trod,
  If I ever climb to the heights sublime,
  Where the soul is at home with God.

  Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
  To walk in it nevermore;
  For my Lord says, “Come,” and I seek my home,
  Where He waits at the open door.